Title: THE SHIELD - Season Six Premiere! 4/3/07 10pm EST
Description: Don't forget to set your TIVO/DVR!
Don May Jr - April 3, 2007 12:28 PM (GMT)
Vic Mackey is coming back tonight and I, for one, am so jonesing for this show's return... I can't wait!
I watched/crammed all the Season Five DVD episodes in the last few days to prep for tonight.
THE SHIELD has surpassed even my guilty pleasure "24" as one of my favorite shows. Let's hope this season of THE SHIELD doesn't derail itself like "24" has...
Just a heads-up in case you've been a fan... it's been a LOOOONG time since that whammo-shocker of a season finale and I can't wait to see how it plays out. I can only hope that Vic flame-broils some more faces on a few stoves this season!
The Money Train, the Internal Affairs investigation... and that whole "Lem" thing... 10pm can't get here soon enough!
Mike Thomas - April 3, 2007 01:20 PM (GMT)
I'm with you, Don.
And for what it's worth, the tv critic at salon.com -- who has always championed the show -- says that the first six episodes she was sent are worth the wait.
Jamieson McGonigle - April 3, 2007 08:49 PM (GMT)
It's definitely a great show and has grown considerably since its first season. It really just keeps getting better, count me in as counting down until 10PM.
Marty McKee - April 3, 2007 09:29 PM (GMT)
I saw THE SHIELD once, and it played to me like NYPD BLUE with more cursing. After (to that point) 8 or 9 seasons of Sipowicz, Vic Mackey felt like, "Yeah, so. I've seen this before." I suspect BLUE had more soap-opera elements than THE SHIELD does, but other than that, the show didn't seem very revolutionary or original to me. Do you think that correlation exists?
John Egan - April 3, 2007 10:13 PM (GMT)
The difference between The Shield and 24 (and some other shows) is that when one lead character died at the hand of another at the end of the last season we were shocked, it actually mattered and there will be consequences. I stood by NYPD Blue till it's superb final episode but the subplots they cooked up were consistantly awful and often made their characters look foolish. The crew on The Shield confront challenges and moral quandries that grow naturally out the characters and their environment. Actors the caliber of Forrest Whitaker and Glenn Close are given real story arcs as opposed to the usual TV habit of killing or dropping a character when "We didn't know where else to take them!" This season looks like dynamite.
Robert Richardson - April 4, 2007 04:28 AM (GMT)
Unfortunately my channel(s) that were playing THE SHIELD haven't opted to pick up the new season - so after the killer cliffhanger last year it looks like I'll be waiting for a DVD release unless some network cheesehead regains a bit of good sense.
Versus simply being a cop show THE SHIELD is really an exploration of moral quandaries and how boundaries between good and evil so frequently cross. Whereas I'd note NYPD BLUE as being a good show (and at times a great show), THE SHIELD generally hits the "great show" mark on a consistent basis. Even though it has an extremely strong cast the show hasn't been afraid to allow guest actors to not only step up but even dominate the show. Glenn Close was excellent while she was on, but Forest Whitaker's turn last season was outstanding. Watching his character go up against Mackey made for some of the year's most riveting television.