Why is this show never listed in the top whatever shows of all time? It's always the same "Breaking Bad, Sopranos, The Wire etc" but no one ever talks about The Shield. It has the greatest finale to a TV show ever and was the first of its kind on network television. It's the entire reason FX even exists and paved the way for the serial dramas that preceeded it.
Why is this show never listed in the top whatever shows of all time? It's always the same "Breaking Bad, Sopranos...
because its shit tulsa king tier
midwit heaven
It's okay and has some highs. It's probably top 30, but definitely not top 10.
It's only good 50% of the time
When it's good it's really good, but it gets too bogged down in the "villain of the week" aspect and doesn't focus on the main story enough. I agree the finale is really good. Walton Goggins is fantastic as always.
There’s a thread on here daily.
So, obviously there’s support out there for it.
I think the fact it was on FX hurts it.
it was too accurate in its portrayal of niggers and spics and just how much of a shithole LA really is
It's probably top 20 honestly.
The show slipped under the radar. Breaking Bad got notoriety as "the best show ever", the Wire was a cult hit that became huge because it was constantly brought up, Sopranos was just massive in it's day and the ending made a huge splash.
The Shield just never had a hook.
Not as good as those other shows
The shield is too realistic about race for it to really have soys praise it professionally. The niggerwank that is the wire is fine but not the shield when it is basically a treatise on why segregation was the answer
I personally started multiple threads on the shield here like 6, 7 years ago.
None of them gained any traction until the BD came out.
The Wire was honest that blacks are shit, but blamed poverty.
The Shield just tells you they're shit of their own accord.
Didn't it get a lot of pushback for being too "racist" sometime around season 4?
It is wild watching it nowadays. They'd never get away with even 10% of the way they portray blacks as unapologetically as they do.
The wire jerks them off with omar and stringer and the nation of islam nig. Just absurd fantasy stuff.
I'm fairly definite that's why they casted Forest Whittaker to atiffle the racism accusations
And he ended up being the slimiest character of that season and the fans hated him.
He was the unironic hero of the series haha
I'd say that depends on perspective.
Omar is cool, yes, but Stringer is undeniably an asshole and a greedy retard.
Personally, if all blacks acted like the guy in the suit they'd be better, but nah.
It reinforces black culture in that they think the gang bangers are cool and aspiring, but Whites think they're retarded unless they buy into the poverty shit, in which case they pity them.
My point was they were extremely unrealistic characters that could only be written by an incredibly liberal white gen xer. This obviously was well recieved by the reddit style audience of the wire hence by it's portrayal of blacks is allowed while something like the shield isn't really talked much about at all
True.
One of those cases of enough being there that a portion of the audience can take away a separate interpretation.
Oh don't get me wrong, he was great. It just shows how good the writing was that the audience turned against the good guy in favor of the real bad guys.
The finale is great. Haven't seen the show in years and I still think about Shane's fate and watching Ronnie get dragged away.
it is if you're not on reddit
Did you skip all of season 2 by any chance?
every banger and drug dealer is hispanic or black
every rapist and pedo is white
kino
Wasn't Omar based on a real person?
I was sort of invested out of curiosity and "something to watch" until the money train shit then I was hooked. When Shane frags Lem it entered my top 5 shows of all time and was pure kino from then on out
no one ever talks about the shield
except for on Anon Babble, we love the shield here, Justified is more underrated
If nu-metal was a tv show, it'd be The Shield.
Anything with Goggins in it is pure kino
Justified
Underrated
What?
its better than Breaking Bad easily
JUST ANOTHA DAAAAAAAYYY
The Shield definitely has the better ending. Breaking Bad played it safe while The Shield didn't pull any punches
I think people think it's closer to being like Law and Order. It's quite kino. This is like the only show I can think of that runs this long where the finale season and final episode elevate the entire show to another level.
maybe. breaking bad relied a lot on the whole "how tf is walt gonna get out this situation" shtick and ending episodes/seasons on huge cock teasing cliffhangers. hank sitting on the shitter coming to his realization only for viewers to have to wait an entire year for the result was probably the most talked about thing ever at the time
nobody takes me serious when I say Justified is as good or superior to Breaking Bad.
Breaking Bad is certainly more of a spectacle, overall its "depth" is just under surface level and the characters besides Walt and Gus are pretty by the numbers
The times it tries to be "arty" are the worst parts, like the mexican twins crawling to their prayer site or the German guy trying different sauces for 10 minutes before killing himself
lies everyone here does coz everyone is a contrarian rat
look at how many ''people'' here claiming this mid show is better than breaking bad... in a previous thread they were adamant t1 is better than t2 and some guy was serious about t3 better than all of them
another active thread is saying matrix sequels are good and even better than the first one...
Anon Babble are a bunch of fags