How well do you think Jimmy McNulty would have fit in at the Barn? His game with babes rivals Vic and Shane's. He's not a rough-and-tumble guy so I assume he'd be working homicides with Dutch and Claudette, who would appreciate his naaaatural po-lice skills but thoroughly disapprove of his rampant drinking and whoring. So would Aceveda.

He was a detective in West Baltimore, which is probably an even worse place than the fictional shithole of Farmington. But he still had a higher murder clearance rate than any other detective, so maybe the Barn would look the other way on his alcoholism as long as he produced results.

Lol, I think he'd be a good drinking buddy for the Strike Team even if he didn't work with them. Lots of stories about pusssssaaaai!

......if they always kept Lemonhead single simply because they didn't have time a Lem-GF storyline? I get that Dutch and Ronnie were shy and insecure, but Lem seemed pretty confident and was a good-looking jock kind of guy. Weird that he never had a girlfriend for more than 1-2 eps. So I'm wondering if they just didn't have enough time in the story for that.

The shaky cam and grainy production did make The Shield look "cheap" like a student film, but it honestly worked wonders for this show. I'm glad they didn't shoot it like Breaking Bad or The Sopranos.

The Wire's style MIGHT have worked. It had a steady cam and no grain, but no gloss at all. Looked gritty.

Holy shiiiiiiiiiiiit. I have seen the sopranos, the wire, BB/BCS, Mr Robot, Dexter and plenty of more shows and I have never been more gut wrenched from a series. Where do I even begin. I want to watch it again now honestly. This series is a gem.

What if Dutch took the job as captian? How do you think he would run the barn? I have to belive there would be some tension between him and Claudette also.

I always thought one of the best scenes in the entire series was when "lemonhead" takes on those 3 drug dealers and messed up 2 of them. Am I crazy for thinking that? "English only!!!"(line from the movie)

Did anyone actually like Corrine and Dutch together? Like in a way, kind of root for them..... I'm not saying I do, I'm a Vic guy Always. But I can see where people would have.

I watched The Shield when it first was running on cable, bought the DVD’s when they came out and I’m now doing a re-watch on Hulu. I forgot how visceral it was.

After S1Ep1 I remember contemplating the question “is there ever a time when due process should be ignored?” When Aceveda has Mackie go into the interrogation room and he does what Mackie does, I remember feeling that it was the right thing to do in the circumstances of the crime. Obviously it’s not right, but it feels right. But it is a slippery slope and trampling civil rights opens up huge implications like tainting the prosecution and possibly overturning prior convictions. Still, if there was a young girl being sex trafficked and her life was in danger, I have a hard time convincing myself that it isn’t the right move to beat the ever loving dogshit out of a pedophile.

What do you all think?

Hello “Shield”-ed folks,

I just completed all the seasons of this stunning, spectacular show. Now Im spoilt. I came to “The Shield” after finishing some already fabulous shows like The Wire, Mindhunter, Fargo, True Detective. Now after completely absorbed and bowled over by The Shield, I am not able to find something that could match this magic.

Any suggestions?

How did I go from hating Mackey so much in first season first episode to rooting for him to get his job back in season 6!!!

I’ll go dickless for Michael Chiklis!

I just finished episode 10 of season 3, I thought Aceveda would have had his revenge by killing the man who raped him BUT he did even better and made him even more miserable than he was before. Charismatic and badass, he is really the captain who thinks he is

Wow guys, i started this show last week and what an incredible show and acting, i'm already at season 3 and i already put it in my top 5 just waw and Vic what a badass he is

Holy fucking shit. How have I not known about this show for years? I read that it was criminally underrate and I’m surprised it isn’t more talked about like the wire, sopranos and breaking bad.

I have zero idea where it’s going to go and I’m thrilled for the ride.

I can’t wait to see the character development.

SPOILERS FOR THE NOW-CLASSIC COP MOVIE TRAINING DAY TO FOLLOW .......

....... Both Vic and Alonzo were corrupt and dirty cops, but I think it's interesting to note HOW they became corrupt, which I believe was for similar reasons.

Alonzo watched his "drinking buddy"(note the quotes) Roger get rich selling drugs to kids for 10+ years, with FULL impunity from the 3 Wisemen(Alonzo's powerful suit bosses) while Alonzo eked out a mediocre living as an LAPD street cop, risking his life everyday on the streets of the baarios and ghettos. Plus he had like 4 kids(that he rarely ever saw of course) to financially provide for.

Vic watched crooked test-taking suits like Aceveda who didn't pay their dues on the streets enjoy cushy salaries, big homes and juicy promotions, while he worked a shit-ton of mostly unpaid overtime shifts and also earned a meager cop salary. And he and his team risked their lives out there way more than Aceveda, dealing with tough, hardened killers.

Of course it doesn't excuse either of them going rogue and breaking the law for their own gain, but I can kinda-sorta understand how witnessing something messed up like that year after year could eat you alive with helpless frustration, and one day make you snap and say "fuck it, I'll take a little something on the side too, I just won't be as bad as them." Which just escalated from there, fast. And of course, having 2 autistic kids made Mackey's financial burdens way more crushing.

KING KONG!!! AIN'T GOT SHIT!!! ON ME!!!!

I was wondering if the cage in the series is representative for how prisons were back in the day? To me and my girlfriend it looks pretty amateurish as the whole barn itself looks. But maybe it was like this back in the days? I don’t know the exact time in which the series is happening, but if it is in the 2000s it seems like a very old cheap prison.

Or did it happen to be that just this one particular location was an experiment or did not have enough money?

She gave him an interesting in one scene

New here, dont think ive watched a show thats catapulted itself into my all time favs, now time to recommend it to everyone i meet for 3 months

What does everyone think?

Who were your least favorite characters of the show?

Rewatching the series and I had remembered Dutch just being a huge nerdy incel. He and Vic are polar opposites. Vic is a charming, charismatic, assertive alpha male. Dutch is none of those things.

But upon rewatching, Dutch gets just as much ass/interest as Vic😅. The hot rookie says that he COULD have got it, he just didn’t take it, Joanna Faulk(cuddler rapists wife) wants him, he makes out with Dani in the locker room, He’s nailing Vics wife, Lloyd Dentons mom wants to make future serial killer babies with him and Billings’ hot lawyer is shooting her shot while on the clock. The only thing blocking Dutch…is Dutch. If only the wolf was a little more hungry He’d have been the Stallion of the barn.

How long between co-pilot episode and the first episode where Terry is shot by the drug dealer? I thought there was four months or what I thought I heard. So how could that first ride be Terry popping his cherry? Anybody got accurate picture of timelines?

.....immediate family is what really sealed his fate. I think it was a lot easier for Shane to kill Lem than if Lem had a wife and kids who were counting on him. And I think Vic mentioned once that Lem's parents and relatives were all "poor white trash" whom he was was estranged from. Lem may have had a girlfriend in S5, but she was never seen or mentioned, so I'll assume he didn't.

In Shane's twisted mind, it was a lot easier to kill a 37-38 year old single guy who would only be missed by his only 3 friends in the world, than an established family man. 😭😩. Maybe Shane still would have killed him if he had a family, but it would have been an exponentially harder and more crushing decision, and I think Shane would have ended up eating a bullet in his car much sooner than the finale.

I always wondered if Lem stayed a childless bachelor by choice, or if he also had a lotta trouble with the ladies like Ronnie and Dutch.

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Maybe he was one of the lower rank cops making fun of Julian... 😆

One scene in the last half hour of the series finale we see the kid obviously carefully set up Dutch as the culprit of his mom's death, and the next we see him in prison jumpers and his wrist shackled to the table?

Just lazy writing? There was no satisfaction because we aren't made aware of how the police caught the kid

Ever since he killed that poor, innocent kitty, I hated him so much and wanted to see something bad happen to him like him getting shot or hospitalized or killed in some other way.

I think the worst thing that happened to him was when he was tricked by Billings to go see Tina while she was fucking Hiatt.

That's just not enough. #JusticeForGinger