Previously, on The Shield...

>>212624104 (OP)
WE SUCKED
A COP

HAHAHAHA imagine getting rejected

>>212624104 (OP)
Armadillo was a very ballsy villain. Within his introduction, he brutally rapes a little girl for snitching on him and burns a drug dealer that Vic was actually pretty cool with and, IIRC, also kills his family. Shame he went out so unceremoniously. S2, besides the Money Train storyline, was a complete write off. It's in S3 where the show hits its stride and doesn't let up for three whole seasons until S6.

>>212624145
Get over it. Don't ever piss all over us again.

>>212624198
I just finished S3 and was barely paying attention to the last 2 episodes. What am I in for with S4, 5, and 6?

>>212624198
The Armenians reintroduced in S6 was the worst part. There is nothing good about S6 in general.

>>212624242
>Season 4
Soft reboot of the series. Some people love it or hate it. It's the most polarizing season of the show.

>Season 5
Kino

>Season 6
introduces the finale but very painful to rewatch.

>Season 7
Kino ending.

>>212624242
Kino Internal Affairs investigation and money train consequences. One of few shows that improves with future seasons, writers clearly had a plan for it as a whole.

>>212624198
he went out good imo. it created tension between danny and vic on top of putting even more heat of the strike team. it escalated things in an organic way.

BEANED

>It's a Dutch creating serial killers for giving them a reason to get better at episode
>It's a Shane being a fuckup episode
>It's a Billings being comedic gold episode
>It's a Vic Mackey acting like a simp to his ex wife episode

the hell were they thinking?

>JUST ANOTHER GAAAAAAAAAAAAY
>Spanish gibberish intensifies

>>212624638
>It's a Julien "I'm not gay" episode

>>212624242
Im midway through season 5 now and it gets a lot better. The first 2 seasons just seem like a typical cop show on network tv amped up for basic cable censorship/edgelord boundary pushing.

>>212625164
He was kino. Also liked the Glen Close season.

>it's another "we're cops in a rough town and we don't play by the rules n shiet" show
oh boy

They were too blinded by grief and a possible ticket out of mediocrity to see that they should've never attempted to rob the Money Train. Of course the Feds already stung it and marked the money. It was too big an operation.

>>212625329
>>212625239
You're the same psychotic loser always shitting up Shield threads. Go the fuck away and SUCK IT

>>212625283
>censorship/edgelord boundary pushing.

>Season 1
>White /pol/ack killing non-whites episode
From that point on I knew The Shield was special.

>>212625314
he is so "Look, ma, i'm acting!"
especially when whole series is shot in hyper-realistic way this over-the-top shit makes it unbearable to watch.
I liked Glen Close too, though.

>>212625386
for me it was when Vic told the doctor in the pilot he'd bring his daughter down to the station so he can fuck her and suck her tits. I fell in love then and there.

>>212625331
>Running around getting away with everything up to and including murdering cops, participating in dog fights, stealing drugs, framing people, torturing suspects, smuggling weapons, kidnapping people in other countries, and more
What about their lives constituted mediocrity? LA cops with several years in service get paid very well, they were massively boosting their pay with unwarranted OT and illicit earnings as well. They had carte blanche with even the top brass knowing what they were doing, they were just fucking greedy retards.

They'd have all been millionaires if they'd just kept doing what they were doing.

>>212625514
Looking back, the Money Train storyline was a little too contrived. They were better off just skimming drug dealers. but the show needed a tipping point. It should've eased into the money train a little more. It feels almost benign given they've robbed gangs and mobs before. Just the sum is the big difference.

>>212625606
>skimming drug dealers
>Rondell being a fuckup
>T.O. getting killed just to cut down Vic's money operation
>Kern Little being a full retard
>Latinos being more untrustworthy than blacks

>>212625606
Vic starts fucking up right after the pilot. The whole show he's constantly at risk of exposure. Dutch nearly snares him several times. As soon as he got away with killing Terry, he thought he could get away with anything. Combined with his love of the rush of it, of fucking up and then worming his way out of it, he was always doomed to go too far.

I love how he doesn't even realize at the end how fucked he is. He goes into the lady's office talking about how he can't wait to take someone down and she literally has to explain to him that it's over. Even during his confession he has the audacity to say "I was too good" with a big smirk on his face even as he sells his soul, fucks over everyone else, and his best friend just killed himself.

>>212624198
I really wish Armadillo stuck around more, I was disappointed at the time with when and how he died, but on rewatch and reflection it was a good way for him to go out, and the best kind of villains are the ones you want to see more of, not get sick of.

The song they play when Vic burns him is such a great one too.

>>212625713
the Money Train was just too much heat and they should have known in advance an operation of that scale would've been grapevined a long time ago. But they got greedy, is the bottomline. Lem was frustrating during all of this. He flip flopped between being eager to do the money train even more than the others at times then once they did it he was the most asshurt about it.

>>212625751
Yeah, he could've become like Antwon Mitchell who wore off his welcome by the end.
>>212625735
Vic was a demon born out of putrid working class mediocrity and lack of agency in the world. He just wanted to feel power in any way possible.

>>212625793
He had an unbelievable amount of power, he was just that insatiable. Everyone in the Barn knew Terry died under highly suspicious circumstances. He was still very popular and treated like one of the cool kids.

It's also always fucking hilarious to me that Dutch outright cucks him and he can't do shit about it.

>Julian is gay
>Goes to church to try and repress it
>Gets introduced to a woman
>He tells her but says it's a disease and he wants to get better
>She stays with him
>He fucks her and has a child with her
>Renounces being gay, while still obviously being gay
>Storyline ends
What modern show would have the balls?

>>212625883
>Dutch outright cucks him
Lol Dutch is the cuck there. Dating a mother of three and the wife of the guy who has been humiliating you for years is the most cucked thing imaginable. Meanwhile Vic was fucking 10/10 dimes.

>>212625906
Aceveda's wife shitting on him for being forced to suck dick and mocking his masculinity is so supremely fucked up, the fact that it just happens and he just has to fucking live with it is so unbelievably fucking brutally grim.

>>212625906
I liked when Julien became a member of the Strike Team. He fit right in, and it was very natural. It should've been done way earlier in the show.

>>212625959
Aceveda is a snake and the only one who got out of the show unscathed (besides....sucking?!) and the show makes it clear he would've sucked a thousand times if it meant he got to live when any man in his place would take the bullet no questions asked. He didn't give two shits about Terry in reality and just used him to nail Vic so he can parade him around the brasses as a big catch to further his political career.

>>212625959
It's a fitting punishment for all the snake shit he does. He's almost as bad as Vic, he could have been worse he just didn't have the balls.

>>212625940
He would be if not for the fact it obviously bothered the shit out of Vic and he still wanted to be with Corrine and the divorce was her idea.

>>212626015
Aceveda chose Vic over Gilroy for political gain.

>>212625906
>wife is constantly running
>shoot her in the legs and she bleeds out

>>212626058
No, he let go of Corrine early on in S3. He just didn't want Dutch the cuck around his kids.

>>212626099
LIVING THE GOOD LIFE

>>212625959
>camera cuts to Aceveda looking awkward whenever someone says something about dick sucking around him.
I will never tire of this gag. Does Vondas ever show up again or was that just a one time cameo in season 5?

>Shane having a Dixie Land ringtone.

Always a laugh.

Sopranos: S4 > S2 > S1 > S6 > S3 > S5
Shield: S5 > S4 > S7 > S3 > S2 > S6 > S1
Wire: S2 > S4 > S3 > S1 > S5
BrBa: S2 > S1 > S4 > S5 > S3

>>212625959
It's very realistic for male victims of rape.

>>212624104 (OP)
Armadillo was underrated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DktawlMacHM

SUCK IT

the fuck is wrong with all of you faggots saying S5 is the best one? It's not it's mid

>called the shield
>there are no shields in the show
?