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June 5, 2007: Spanish Practices | TV Show Recaps | 6/6/2007
Man, what a season. Can't the final season just start next week? Or can't we just fast-forward to March 2008 right now? (Leave Christmas in just for the heck of it.)Again, The Shield threw me for a loop. I was expecting either Shane or a member of the Mackey family to bite the big one and none of them did. I was expecting Vic to get his job back, but not by exposing the Mexican mob, and I certainly didn't expect him to walk out of his hearing. As I've said before, the twists and turns are what... read more
May 29, 2007: Recoil | TV Show Recaps | 5/30/2007
I know it's probably bad to start off a blog about this week's episode by saying I can't wait for next week's. But it's true. The last time I remember anticipating a finale as much as this one it was the final episode of Cheers. And this is just a season finale. I mean, jeez, my heart. My poor, tired heart. I know my heart can't wait until 11:05 pm/ET next week for it to be over. It gets a workout each week and I'm sure the ticker is a little exhausted at this point. Then again, we get to wait... read more
What shows do you think were ... | Matt Roush | 5/25/2007
Question: What shows do you think were the best overall this season? I mean all around: writing, acting, special effects, etc. My picks are Lost, Supernatural, House (the episode two weeks ago, with a drugged-up Wilson, was one of the funniest scenes I've seen in a while and entirely makes up for the Tritter mess), Friday Night Lights, How I Met Your Mother and Heroes (though, granted, it had a teetering start). Answer: All acceptable choices. But looking at the season as a totality, the... read more
May 22, 2007: The Math of the Wrath | TV Show Recaps | 5/23/2007
With only three episodes left in this season, this week we get our setup episode for the final two. Dialogue-heavy and bloodshed-light, we get some more insight into Shane and the Armenians and find out that Hernan is not dead after all. Shane’s in the middle of this gas-station murder and is talking to the daughter of the Armenian mob boss. Shane’s talking to her like she doesn’t know anything, but clearly she’s more on her game than he thinks. And soon she might be in... read more
Please, please, please dish ... | Today's News: Our Take | 5/23/2007
Question: Please, please, please dish some scoopage on The Shield!Answer: The June 5 season finale is off the hook. Shane kidnaps Vic's wife and daughter, Farmington loses two of its own (one quits, the other gets fired), a new romance blossoms, and a certain X-rated photo comes back to, um, bite Aceveda. read more
Fox Plays the Waiting Game | Matt Roush | 5/17/2007
If you could just ignore those pesky months between September and December, Fox would be sitting pretty. The challenge each year for this network is how to schedule a fall start that will live up to the blockbuster spring finish provided by late-arriving shows like American Idol and (even a diminished) 24.In the last of the week’s Upfront presentations, Fox Entertainment president Peter Ligouri made the curious choice of putting himself in the middle of a 24 parody, trading exchanges on... read more
May 15, 2007: Shane Wises Up | TV Show Recaps | 5/16/2007
All talk and no action. That's usually not our buddy Vic Mackey. But last week, I clearly heard him say to Shane: "If I see you again, I will kill you." Vic saw him again and Shane is still walkin' and talkin' as far as I can see. I mean, I hoped it would happen. I hoped Vic would pull up to Shane and pop him one, but I also knew it couldn't happen that easily. Shane's no dummy, we all knew that. I always considered Vic to be the more cunning of the two, but Shane has really upped his game this... read more
Is it Emmy time for The ... | Today's News: Our Take | 5/9/2007
Question: Is it Emmy time for The Shield's Walton Goggins?Answer: In a perfect world? Yes. In a world that denied his costar Forest Whitaker a nod last year? Probably not. read more
Have you abandoned The ... | Today's News: Our Take | 5/9/2007
Question: Have you abandoned The Shield? I never see anything about it in your columns. That show rocks!Answer: Last night's four-star episode single-handedly guaranteed the show a spot on our annual Dream Emmy Ballot. read more
May 8, 2007: Chasing Ghosts | TV Show Recaps | 5/9/2007
There it was, folks. The biggest episode of The Shield so far this season. Shane vs Vic, man vs man, dog vs dog. The one-on-one confrontation we've all been anticipating this entire season has happened, and my lord, is Shane in trouble now. The last 10 minutes developed nicely over the course of this episode, starting with Shane being in a much more chipper mood. I guess Mara took him back and now that he got the murder off his chest, he just wants to “put this in the rearview... read more
The Shield this season is ... | Matt Roush | 5/4/2007
Question: The Shield this season is just fantastic, especially Walton Goggins. Is Forest Whitaker gone already? It seemed like they wrote him out fairly quickly and the way they did it was just a little too "pat" for me. I hope he's going to be back later. Any info to share? Answer: The Forest Whitaker subplot is done. He had committed to only those two episodes, and in retrospect, if The Shield made any mistake in this so-far-terrific season, it's in having kept his character... read more
May 1, 2007: Haunts | TV Show Recaps | 5/2/2007
I wish I had the time to go back to the beginning of this series and watch the whole thing from the start again. I'd love to see the point where Shane's life started spiraling out of control. Maybe it was the money train, or hitting Tavon over the head, or even all the way back to the first episode when the strike team killed a cop. There's got to be a dozen other moments as well, but whatever moment it is, one thing is for certain: Shane has no control over what happens now. This whole season... read more
First Look at Glenn Close's New FX Drama | Matt Roush | 4/25/2007
One of the boldest forces in TV drama, the FX network, is at it again. At a press upfront lunch gathering Wednesday afternoon, the risk-taking cable network screened the pilot episode of its much-anticipated new legal thriller Damages, starring Glenn Close. Premiering this July, it looks like a winner, reminiscent of the early days of David E. Kelley’s masterwork The Practice, before it descended into grotesque silliness and evolved into the ridiculous, sophomoric cartoon that is Boston... read more
April 24, 2007: The New Guy | TV Show Recaps | 4/25/2007
A big hearty handshake (well, not from Shane) goes out to Alex O'Loughlin, aka Detective Kevin Hiatt, as he begins his tour of duty in Farmington. Boy, he has no clue what he's being thrown into! This was a nice semi-setup episode to get us ready for what we saw in the preview. For the first time this season, chasing Lem's killer wasn't No. 1 on the list. We saw new drama unfold and even got back to the slaughterhouse briefly, while the Lem situation still stewed in the background a bit. Of... read more
April 17, 2007: Maybe He Didn't Do It | TV Show Recaps | 4/18/2007
"He killed Lem. Don't you remember his body, his face? You think you could just forget that, huh? Don't you think he deserves to die for what he did?"Those words, screamed at Shane Vendrell by Vic Mackey, helped mold a scene that had to be the most powerful one of the entire series. Wow! You knew Vic was going to do something harsh to Guardo if he found him, but wow! I mean, wow! I know I'm saying that word a lot right now, but that one word — wow! — really sums up the boldness, the... read more
I really value your opinion ... | Matt Roush | 4/16/2007
Question: I really value your opinion and think that you are one of the best TV critics out there. What are your current five favorite shows on television? I'm not asking what you think are the best or most original shows on television, but the five that you are currently enjoying the most. Answer: Thanks for the positive feedback. I hate reducing TV to arbitrary lists like this. Still, since you asked: purely in terms of consistent enjoyment, and limiting the list to what's currently on air... read more
FX and HBO are often compared ... | Matt Roush | 4/13/2007
Question: FX and HBO are often compared because of their high-quality, risk-taking hour-long dramas. For the most part, I agree with every word of praise written about these shows. But I'm concerned about the one persistent flaw I've found in almost all of them, including The Sopranos, Rescue Me, Six Feet Under and The Shield: their Murphy's Law mentality, their fervent belief that honest drama begins with making characters unhappy and proceeds by making their lives increasingly worse. Joy,... read more
Ratings: Sopranos Takes a Hit, Shield Shines | Today's News: Our Take | 4/12/2007
• The Sopranos' Sunday return was watched by 7.66 million total viewers, a marked drop from the 9.47 mil who tuned in for the start of the series' previous run. In key demos, though, Tony & Co. placed second behind the Housewives. Entourage (3.77 mil), meanwhile, was up 40 percent from its previous kickoff.• With HBO's returning dramas now in play, Showtime's The Tudors (775,000 viewers across two airings) was down 39 percent from its premiere.• This Tuesday's The Shield (2.4... read more
April 10, 2007: I Framed a Guilty Man | TV Show Recaps | 4/11/2007
So the fact that Forest Whitaker wasn’t going to be around after this episode was not a well-kept secret at all, but I wasn’t expecting the situation between him and Vic to go down like this. I think I was somehow expecting Kavanaugh to get a surprise beating or take a bullet, although then again, he’s too smart for that. But it seems like he wasn’t smart enough to realize that no one plays both sides quite like Vic Mackey. Jon’s downfall of course was when he started... read more
I always remember to read ... | Matt Roush | 4/9/2007
Question: I always remember to read your column at least twice a week because you like the same shows I do, and you are a fellow Buffy-ite (will we ever quit missing the Scoobies?). But I thought your recent article about 24 was rather harsh. I know you have enjoyed it in the past as much as I have, and even though this year's show is definitely not up to those standards, it's still better than most of the shows on the air now. When I read that you were considering Monday night a lost cause, I... read more

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Premise: A corrupt and brutal L.A. detective runs an elite squad by his own rules in a neighborhood ravaged by drugs and gangs. Unusually gritty and graphically violent, but seldom less than riveting, 'The Shield' gets its biggest jolt from the breakout performance by Michael Chiklis as the complex and volatile Vic Mackey. The drama made Emmy history when he won for Lead Actor in a Drama in 2002, the first such win for a basic-cable series.

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