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Summary: Best show on cable?
Review: I watched The Shield one night on FX after hearing some good news. I was amazed. I then watched almost all of season 1 and got the DVD set of Season 1 for christmas. I finished it and was sproud to be a fan of it. I told my friends. I got season 2 and it was even better. There is a great blend of drama and action with the money train and Mackey's family. I cant wait for season 3 on March 9th im expecting great things.
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Summary: What Are They Waiting For?
Review: I'm an undercover cop in Phoenix. This show is by far the best show on television! Vic is loved and hated. The guys on my squad without cabe have me tape the show every week. Where is season two on DVD? If I had known it would not be released yet I would have taped them all without commercials!
Please release this set as soon as posibble!
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Summary: Very Intense!!!!
Review: If you are sick of the usual good cop shows, and want a different type of bad "good guy" to cheer for.... This is for you, every episode suprised me!!! This is my new favorite show!!!
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Summary: love it.
Review: if you like the shield, this season was just as good as season 1. the 3rd season is on now and it is also very good. this show rocks!
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Summary: TV's #1 Drama
Review: If you love drama this is the show for you. explosive action every second,Every episode leaves you wanting more. I Watched Season 1&2 and got hooked. Now I Can't Wait For Season 3 On Febuary 22, 2005. Season 4 Starts In march Check Your Local Listings The Premire date Should be March 15, 2005.
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Summary: This Show Must Have Killed Off LA's Tourist Industry
Review: Make no mistake The Shield is first class and along with The Wire, it is the most gritty police series on TV. Set in Los Angeles, with one exception all of the police officers are various shades of grey, balancing police work with their own ambitions. In particular this is true of the main charactor, Vic Mackey. Mackey is a good if ruthless cop, brave, loyal to his men and a loving father. He is also totaly corrupt licensing the drug dealers in his area and torturing and killing anyone who gets in his way. Michael Chiklis does an excellent job of showing MacKey with all his contradictions, one minute saving a baby from drowning, the next burning a drug dealer on a hot grill.
MacKey's boss, David Aceveda played by Benito Martinez is eager to catch him, but balances this against his own political ambitions. Other charactors include Julian (Michael Jace) a Christain patrolman who refuses to accept he is gay and a Dutch (Jay Karnes), a dectective who craves the admiration of his colleagues. The only person we can admire is Claudette Wyms, played by the excelent CCH Pounder. Claudette has no agenda other than to be a good cop and catch the bad guy. She is clever enough to know what both MacKey and Aceveda are up to and they in turn know not to cross the only other cop with the abilty to bring them both down.
In the Shield's version of L.A. everyone is a gangster, corrupt politican, corrupt police officer, drug dealer, drug addict or psychotic killer. and often all six. I have never been to Los Angeles and the Shield does nothing to make me want to go there. This is the show's weekness. It is unremitingly grim. All right the life of an L.A. cop cannot be a bundle of laughs but it must have it's lighter moments. It is these that the Shield fails to show. An injection of the occasional bit of humour would go a long way. I am all for crime being shown in all it's horror but man does not live by gunshots and stab wounds alone.
Another weakness is the number of near misses that MacKey and his crew have. Always getting away with it by the skin of your teeth gets a bit repetitive.
I may be picky but why show the deleted scenes separate from the show? It would have been better to put these in the episodes so we can see them in their correct place. Having said that bring on series 3.
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Summary: Great shows & Good DVDs
Review: My husband is hooked on the Sopranos, which I do not enjoy, so when he tried to tempt me into the Shield, I balked. After listening from the other room as he watched, I was drawn closer and closer, and I am now a confirmed Shield addict.
A couple of comments about the series: a story about corrupt cops naturally tends to be dark. However, Vic Mackey and his band of detectives are not totally corrupt and are not without any redeeming qualitities. Consequently, the characters are engaging and sometimes charming, and the show has moments of real humor to it. The show is absolutely not for kids: there is a very violent theme underlying the daily activities of the officers (both on and off duty) and a great deal of implied violence, but there is little of the overt, graphic, on-scene violence or torture that I sat through in the Sopranos... I have yet to have to leave the room during an episode of the Shield because of some bloody murder or another. Nonetheless, some plots are very disturbing (for example, one deals with the retaliation rape of a young girl: the assault is not shown, but the effect of the attack is readily apparent). The plots are well developed and generally do not lose their thread mid-episode or mid-season (in contrast, what happened to the Russians in the Sporanos??), however, some of the Shield characters go through some changes that are difficult to follow. (If you want to know who, you'll have to watch for yourself.)
As to the DVDs themselves: there are few extra features on the discs, but the show is sufficiently compelling that we didn't need much more. There is cast commentary which adds a little, but not much. The disks have been compatible with every DVD player we've used them on (at least 4 different models), and have stood up well to normal use and abuse.
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Summary: About as far away from "The Commish" as you can get
Review: Other folks have given you a great rundown on Season 2. I'll just add that this is the best show on television. I've loved Chiklis in everything from "The Commish" to "Murphy Borwn," but he has found his true calling here. Wow!
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Summary: absolutely amazing
Review: Season 2 amazed me by being even better that season 1. The Shield is the only show with enough balls to give the people the cops we would love to have. If there were real cops like Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis' character), I really think things would be a lot better. Then again...maybe there's a reason I'm not a cop, and that Mackey's a fictional character.
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Summary: No Sophomore slump, thank goodness!
Review: Series creator Shawn Ryan led "The Shield" through its second season while sacrificing or toning down NONE of the grittiness and fierce energy that made Season One so spectacular.Vic and his Strike Team, like in the first season, spend 13 tense episodes walking that fine line between morality and immorality. In season two they are targeted for execution by a ruthless drug lord (played very menacingly by Danny Pino), compelled to frame a fellow cop for contributing to a murder, and tap dance to keep the Police Administration, their boss, their boss' corrupt boss, civilian auditors, fellow detectives, and fate from finally exposing them for what they have become and having the whole thing blow up in their faces. Vic has more on the line this season, both professionally and personally. While the final episode of Season Two isn't the violence-filled tension-fest that ended Season One, it does lay the groundwork for a particularly tense Season Three. On top of everything else the Strike Team has had to deal with up to now, in spite of all the bullets they've somehow dodged, Season Three is slated to see them being hunted by the Armenian Mob AND on in the crosshairs of their new boss, Detective Wymms, who is morally determined to take down Vic and his men. Detective Aceveda may have been driven by a mix of morality and political ambition, but the political ambition part was what provided a safety net for Vic. Wymms has no such ambitions. So Vic and crew are up against a couple of more determined enemies than they've ever faced before. I bought the Season Two DVD box set the day it was released (01/06/04) and had watched the entire 13 episode season within 24 hours. Yes, it is THAT compelling! Even after having seen them all before in first-run on F/X. Keep this show coming! This time, though, I hope we don't have to wait the full year to buy Season Three on DVD.
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