The Shield: Serie

At its core, follows the strike team, an elite four-man unit of the LAPD tasked with taking down the worst criminals by any means necessary. The leader is Detective Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis), a bald, barrel-chested bulldog of a man.

Before Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis) stepped onto the screen, TV cops fell largely into two categories: the competent professionals ( Law & Order , CSI ) or the eccentric but lovable geniuses ( Monk , Columbo ). The Shield obliterated this binary.

– Shot with handheld cameras, jump zooms, and natural lighting, the show feels like a raw, unfolding news report. the shield serie

9.5/10 (Essential viewing for fans of The Wire , Breaking Bad , and Sons of Anarchy ).

Vic Mackey’s answer is always "Yes." By the end of the final season, you will have to answer that question for yourself. At its core, follows the strike team, an

Before Breaking Bad ’s Walter White, before The Sopranos ’ Tony Soprano, there was —a corrupt, violent, yet oddly principled detective who changed television forever. Premiering in 2002 on FX, The Shield broke new ground for basic cable, delivering a gritty, documentary-style look at the Los Angeles Police Department’s fictional Farmington district ("The Farm").

The pilot episode famously ends with an unforgivable act of violence that sets the show’s moral compass spinning: Mackey executes a fellow cop to protect his team’s secrets. From that moment on, the show never looks back. The Shield obliterated this binary

The show is set in the fictional Farmington district of Los Angeles, nicknamed "the Farm". It centers on an experimental division of the LAPD operating out of a converted church known as .