The Shield

The Shield is a gritty telling of the chaotic lives of the Strike Team, a dysfunctional band of brothers working out of Farmington PD in Los Angeles. This show is intense, an icon of mid 2000s police tv. With a complex cast of characters that you can never really trust, this show takes you on a ride through the eyes of LA’s most corrupt. Vic is a monster, through and through. Spoilers ahead. Seeing Vic screw Ronnie at the very end sealed the deal for me, and how I wish they traded places. I would’ve loved to see Vic behind bars, but he essentially is now anyways. I wish Shane had some semblance of a happy ending. After everything he’s done, even to Lem, that was a rough way to go. To take the entire family with him, what a twist. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. This show is a telling of tragedy start to finish with no happy ending. But goddamn was it good.