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  The Shield Tops TCA Nominations

  

  
  

  The Shield is going out in style: The dearly departed cop drama leads the Television Critics Association Awards with four nominations.

  
  

  The Shield, which ended its seven-season run in November, will battle Lost, Mad Men, Saturday Night Live and Batt......

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  Is The Shield Heading to Movie Theaters? - Featured

  FX's groundbreaking cop drama The Shield came to an end in November, but could there be a future in movies for Vic Mackey?

  

  Creator Shawn Ryan and castmembers Michael Chiklis, Walton Goggins and CCH Pounder gathered to promote their series for Emmy ...

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  ''The 13 Most Shocking TV Deaths''

  We really should've known better. We waited two weeks for Brothers & Sisters' "shocking death," when all along we should have realized that what that the network had been teasing for weeks (months even, among insiders) in the end wasn't all that s...

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  Episode Recap: "Family Meeting"

  When FX launched its first drama, The Shield, the promoted it with the tagline: "The Road to Justice Is Twisted." If you didn't believe the show had a mission statement from the start you can't deny it now. The Shield's series finale, "Family Meet...

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  Episode Recap: "Possible Kill Screen"

  In the ultimate penultimate episode of all time, The Shield's final act prepped itself to close out the series in it's typical, unrelenting fashion. Double dealing, backstabbing, murder, and drugs were the order of the day in Farmington. Oh, and ...

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  1st link for episode "petty cash"

  Thnx for the link "petty cash" i been waiting all morning..... :) finally! Ninjavideo.net rocks!

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  none of the episodes on ninjavideo will load for me, everytime i try to watch them it says that I am not connected to the internet..anyone else having this problem?

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  I Keep Getting Part 2...where is part 1?

  No matter when or where I open Tudou, I am only able to see part 2 of this episode which I am in desperate need of watching(just kidding). Anyway, since I have no idea what all the language means, I can not seem to find where to click on and watch...

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  Season 3 Episode 1 Playing Tight can not be found on Sidereel....can someone help me?

  I refuse to watch the rest of The Shield without having seen this episode, yet I need a link to watch it. For some reason every now and then when I.m trying to watch a certain tv show, there will be a missing episode that no matter how hard I look...

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Premiere: March 12, 2002

Type: TV Show

Genres/Tags: TV-Drama

Notable film actors who took extended roles on the show included Glenn Close in season 4 and Forest Whitaker in seasons 5 and 6. The Shield finished its 6th season and was renewed for its 7th and final season, which began airing on September 2, 2008

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The Shield is about an experimental division of the Los Angeles Police Department set up in the fictional Farmington district ("the Farm") of Los Angeles, using a converted church ("the Barn") as their police station, and featuring a group of detectives called the Strike Team who will stop at nothing to bring their version of justice to the streets. Michael Chiklis has top billing with his portrayal of Strike Team leader Vic Mackey. The show has an ensemble cast that will normally run a number of separate story lines through each episode.

Detective Vic Mackey is the leader of the Strike Team, a four-man anti-gang unit based on the LAPD's real-life Rampart Division CRASH unit (Rampart was seriously considered as the series name and was even used in some early promotional ads for the series[4]). The Strike Team uses a variety of illegal and unethical methods to maintain peace on the streets, while making a profit through illegal drug protection schemes and robbery. The Strike Team isn't above planting drugs on and coercing confessions out of gang members or framing them. Attempts to give the team a fifth member have frequently led to near-catastrophe for the group.

The Shield has a variety of subplots, notably David Aceveda's political aspirations and internal confrontation of a previous sexual assault; Vic Mackey's struggle to cope with a failing marriage; and Julien Lowe's internal conflicts between his belief in the teachings of the Bible and his latent homosexuality.

Common themes are the citizens' distrust of police, the social impact of drugs and gang warfare, and the conflict between ethics and political expediency. Most characters are portrayed as having both vice and virtue. For example, Vic's loving relationship with his children contrasts with his thuggish attitude towards police work; in addition, his brutality is generally directed at those who seem well deserving of such treatment — in Season 2, the Strike Team prepares to rob the "Armenian Money Train," a money laundering operation of the Armenian Mafia. Another episode had Mackey cornering a serial rapist, then letting him be attacked by a police dog before calling the dog off.

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