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The Shield is an American crime drama television series starring Michael Chiklis that premiered on March 12, 2002, on FX in the United States, and concluded on November 25, 2008, after seven seasons.
- Vic Loses His Blood Family
- Vic Loses His Strike Team Family
- Vic Gets A Job as A Desk Jockey
- Claudette & Vic Have A Final Showdown
- Shane’s Familicide
- Vic Retrieves His Gun
- Vic Betrays Ronnie
- Where Is Rita?
Vic needs to pay a price, and the biggest price he can pay is losing his family. He shows up at the family home to find it empty with law enforcement outside. He’s informed that his ex-wife and kids have been moved to witness protection, and she’s requested protection from him too. She’s made the right decision. Vic corrodes and corrupts everything...
Throughout The Shield, Vic treats the police Strike Team he leads like an actual family, often letting it take priority over his own. Thus, it’s noteworthy that, in the end, the Strike Team has disintegrated. Shane is dead, in a grisly suicide at his own hand. Lem was already dead, from a grenade Shane tossed in his lap. Ronnie is under arrest and ...
Other than his families (blood and Strike Team), the biggest thing you can take from Vic is the streets. That’s his arena, his zone of comfort, the place he thinks he owns. The streets are his real mistress. Or wife. The feds, horrified by Vic’s confessions but stuck with the sweeping immunity agreement they’ve given him, consign him to a boring, m...
Claudette Wyms (C.C.H. Pounder) was the moral center of The Shield. Along with Dutch Wagenbach (Jay Karnes), she was the character who most clings to her conscience. The job doesn’t change all. They were the light to Vic’s darkness. So it was extremely gratifying to see her final showdown with Vic, in which she lays out, one-by-one, the photos of S...
Shane Vendrell (Walter Goggins) made a series of amoral decisions, at times egged on by his equally amoral wife. They were bound to catch up to him, and the final episodes of The Shieldshow him on the run with the walls gradually closing in. In the end, Shane has no escape. He’s willing to give himself up to save his wife, who has committed murder,...
Just when you think Vic has finally received his comeuppance, you realize that, to stay true to his character, he must find a way out. Vic is a sociopath, a shark, but he’s also a survivor. He’s not going to be content without his family and trapped behind a desk for long. We see him retrieve his gun, and leave his cubicle. That’s where the show en...
It never seemed fully true to Vic’s character that he killed a cop, Terry Crowley, in the first episode of the first season. Although it was a secret that hung over Vic’s head and bonded him with Shane throughout all of the seasons, the one line that Vic seemed like he would never cross was betraying his brotherhood in blue. You. just. don’t. kill....
Too many loose ends were left behind in the case of Lloyd’s missing mom, Rita. Dutch was convinced, of course, that Lloyd, a teenager, was a future serial killer in the making. Now it appeared that Lloyd was trying to frame Dutch for his mother’s likely death. Rita went missing, Dutch received a series of hang-up calls that she didn’t know about, a...
Mar 12, 2022 · By the end of the first episode, Mackey – who headed up an experimental police task force known as the Strike Team – had struck a bargain with a drug dealer, beaten information out of a suspect...
The Shield is an Emmy Award and Golden Globe-winning hour-long serial drama series aired by the FX Network. It was created by Shawn Ryan and premiered in the United States on March 12, 2002. The show focuses on the events surrounding the fictional district of Farmington in Los Angeles, and the precinct assigned to protect it.
Feb 22, 2022 · On March 12, 2002, The Shield became the highest-rated scripted premiere in basic-cable history. Season 1 earned Chiklis an Emmy and the show a Golden Globe for Best Drama, a first for basic...
What Happens in the Final Episodes of 'The Shield'? The Shield was always primarily the story of Vic Mackey ( Michael Chiklis) and his Strike Team. Tasked with breaking up street...
With Michael Chiklis, Michael Jace, Jay Karnes, CCH Pounder. Follows a gang of corrupt Los Angels Police Department (LAPD) cops called The Strike Team, who uses illegal methods to maintain law and order, whilst engaging in a series of undercover dealings secretly in order to get rich.
