The Shield, greatness

Now if you know me I have seen my fair share of television, and The Wire and The Shield are my two shows that I absolutely love. To me, The Wire was and has been the best show to ever come on television. It is just so deep and the writing and grit is by far the best. But with that being said, The Wire would not be possible without The Shield. The Shield gave cable television a show so edgy that some people couldn't take the first episode never mind stay around for seven seasons, but if you did you became a fan and last nights finale was the cherry on top of a marvelous series.



When you think of The Shield the first thing to pop into your head is the iconic image of Vic Makey, dressed in his jeans and black leather jacket ready to just crush someones head through a door. He was always ahead of EVERYONE else, thats how it went through 7 seasons. During last nights final episode of the series, all the shit that he pulled, the shit that as an audience we knew was wrong and bad but we rooted for him anyway because it just seemed right. All that had finally turned on him. The final minutes of The Shield made perfect sense, Vic Mackey the man that always found a way out had no way out. He was in complete silence. His family hidden from him in witness protection, two of his best friends dead, the other in jail for life, and now his lively hood stripped down to a 9-5 pencil pushing desk job.

As I watched the scene I asked myself if I had ever scene Vic in a suit other than Lem's funeral and even then I can't remember what he was wearing. On the screen was not the Vic Mackey that we all knew, you could see that in the incredible silence, the shaky camera work that zoomed in on his trying eyes, and the feeling that this was worst than life in prison or being dead. And then I saw it. When he grabbed his gun from the lock box and looked at it and gave that smirk I knew he wasn't lost. Vic Mackey is never out for the count. So as wrapped up as the show was, I feel that Vic still had something up his sleeve, even with it being a suit jacket sleeve.