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Re: The Shield
Dude this season is gonna get down and fucking dirty.. I can't wait.
Yeah I love how everything is slowly but surely spinning totally out of control. I can guarantee one thing about the final season. There will be no fading to black bullshit from this show.
I know I have said this before, but this is probably the most consistently good show on TV.
Its going to be fucking intense the whole way through.
Re: The Shield
I watched it yesterday, and was explaining the exact same thing to the people I was watching it with.
It's like Hollywood has forgotton this show. The show is still one of the best, if not THE best on TV, and NO ONE talks about it anymore. It premiered Tuesday night, and virtually no one reviewed it, and it's really sad. This is the show's final season, and still just as good as it ever was, and it'll just fade away.
Yet The Sopranos had been good in like 2-3 YEARS by the time it ended, and yet everyone in their grandmother were brainwashed into watching the final season, and it ended like shit.
The Shield seem to cater to their fans, and hopefully that's how it'll go out. How THEY know their audience will want it to.
I laughed my ass off when Claudette called that Billings dude "your a GOD DAMN JOKE". Beautiful. That's why I love this show. She, Vic & Dutchboy are probably my favorite characters.
Re: The Shield
'˜The Shield' is ready to hang up its guns
'˜It's been a life-changing experience for all of us,' says star Michael Chiklis
The Associated Press
updated 1:59 p.m. ET, Mon., Sept. 15, 2008
LOS ANGELES - FX's genre-bending crime thriller, 'The Shield,' closes its seventh and final season in November, and the fate of Michael Chiklis' hard-bitten Vic Mackey and his corrupt Los Angeles police strike team remain under as much cover as their typically unorthodox detective work.
'I'm loathed to really talk about the specifics of what we're shooting,' said Chiklis, on a break from filming final scenes at the Los Angeles Times building, which was doubling for FBI offices.
The production was shrouded in secrecy so as not to offer any clues to the outcome, with great care taken to make sure no shooting scripts were left lying around '” unlike a typical TV series set.
Creator Shawn Ryan would only say that 'the last 13 episodes, and especially the last few, are very, very true to the show. We don't shy away from hitting things head on and I'm thrilled with how the episodes ended ... more than happy.'
Judging from press screenings of the first eight episodes, Ryan has reason to be pleased. 'The Shield,' which airs Tuesdays (10 p.m. EDT) and concludes Nov. 25, remains unpredictable, with Vic and his men each getting their due for the sins they've committed to enforce their warped brand of justice.
As production wound down, there was a last-day-of-school vibe on the set. A production assistant collected RSVPs for the series wrap party, while Benito Martinez, who plays David Aceveda, captured every Kodak moment.
'This journey has not been unlike reading a really great book where you get into some really great characters and you want to keep going from chapter to chapter to see where they go,' Martinez said. 'But the story's done, and if we kept going, it wouldn't have the impact, the same resonance.'
Still, it hasn't made the end any easier.
'This has been a really, really tough week for the cast and writers '” we had the read-through of our last script,' said Chiklis, taking a slow, deep breath. 'When you read the last script of a series, even if it's had a long run, even if it wasn't the best of circumstances, it's a sad thing. But in the case of '˜The Shield,' where it's been a really remarkable, life-changing experience for all of us, it's been difficult.'
'˜We got lucky'
The show was considered a long shot from the start.
'A lot of people thought I was crazy to even do this show just purely on the basis of who had written it,' Chiklis said of Ryan, who was a writer on 'Nash Bridges' when he decided to create a new show, flipping the script on the old cops-as-heroes formula.
Although FX picked up the pilot, Ryan, executive producer of the series, had no prior experience running a show.
'But the thing that my wife, Michelle, and I just couldn't reconcile was how great (the script) was,' said Chiklis, who, after five seasons on 'The Commish' and nine episodes of 'Daddio,' wanted to reinvent himself. 'We felt like if what's on the page is shot and anyone sees it, it could make some waves.'
'The Shield' became the first basic cable show to receive a major award '” an Emmy for Chiklis '” as well as Emmy nominations for writing and directing.
Besides the accolades that followed '” this summer it was featured among Entertainment Weekly's Top 100 shows of the past 25 years '” the series was a groundbreaking achievement in basic cable, giving rise to gritty and complex anti-hero dramas like FX's 'Nip/Tuck,' 'Rescue Me' and 'Damages,' as well as AMC's 'Mad Men.'
'We got lucky,' said Jay Karnes, who plays Detective Dutch Wagenbach on the show. 'FX ... had a real vested interest in not just keeping it on the air, but making it a hit ... so they pushed it. If this had been on ABC, and garnered the audience we did, it would (have gotten) killed pretty quickly.'
CCH Pounder, who plays Capt. Claudette Wyms, added: 'Just in terms of drama, these writers have managed to keep the twists and turns really in left field.'
'I have all my veteran actress stripes,' continued Pounder during a break on the set of the headquarters for the imaginary LAPD Farmington division. 'And you read a story and you go, '˜OK, I know where this is going.' Then the next script comes ... and as you go through the pages, the thing completely changes. I've never been able to figure it out.'
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Re: The Shield
Cool post Tommie.
Did anyone see the last episode where Claudette got in the face of that punk gangbanger? Somedays CCH Pounder just wows me at how awesome of an actress she is.
It'll also be interesting to see what happens, now that Vic's oldest daughter turned on him. HOW MUCH she knows remains quite an interesting mystery that they haven't spotlighted on.
Re: The Shield
Cool post Tommie.
Did anyone see the last episode where Claudette got in the face of that punk gangbanger? Somedays CCH Pounder just wows me at how awesome of an actress she is.
It'll also be interesting to see what happens, now that Vic's oldest daughter turned on him. HOW MUCH she knows remains quite an interesting mystery that they haven't spotlighted on.
CCH is a really good actor. As far as awesome characters though, I think the award would have to go to Shane (Walton Goggins)...or maybe Dutch.
