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Post by -|E|- on Dec 31, 2005 15:31:43 GMT -5
This was taken from the official FX site for The Shield:
Extraction Jan 10 2006 10:00PM
As the Strike Team tries to end a race war between Blacks and Mexicans, Dutch and Claudette investigate a riot at a high school that also stem from racial tensions. Meanwhile, Vic is encouraged to accept an early retirement package as the Department attempts to improve its image, and Lem gets an unexpected visit from IAD. Julien tries out his new role as training officer for Tina, and Danny refuses to disclose the father of her baby.
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Post by badcop187 on Jan 8, 2006 20:17:59 GMT -5
Bodies pile up in new season of 'Shield' By Erik Pedersen Sun Jan 8, 9:54 AM ET
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Season 5 opens with a free-for-all at a funeral home that leads to a stabbing at high school that instigates a fatal riot in the cafeteria that uncovers a simmering race war. Once again, "The Shield" leaves viewers stunned and breathless before the first commercial break.
ADVERTISEMENT FX's pick-a-side police drama returns with more of the bristling scripts, fiery acting and smart camerawork that have been its hallmark. Michael Chiklis continues to dominate as brazen Detective Vic Mackey, who plays good cop/badass cop as leader of the vigilantist Strike Team. The omnipresent internal affairs probe again threatens to derail Mackay and his boys, whose line-crossing tactics on the street constantly cause headaches for LAPD brass and head wounds for their enemies. This time, Detective Curtis Lemansky (Kenneth Johnson) is threatened with prison if he doesn't give up Mackey. Loyalties to leader and badge are tested.
One season removed from Glenn Close's Emmy-nominated turn as captain of the squad, the show again seamlessly adds new characters. Forest Whitaker plays a zealous IAD lieutenant hellbent on taking Mackey down by any means necessary. Paula Garces joins the force as a comely and questionably qualified rookie officer who must choose between being "a cop and a girl." David Marciano is the Barn's schleppy and bewildered new captain, who immediately is pegged as merely a puppet for the department's suits. He's more than happy to give Mackey plenty of space to all but run the show so he doesn't have to.
Plots and scenes involving Mackey and his inner-city justice league are so intense and engrossing that they tend to push all other characters to the Barn's background, rendering them less an ensemble and more like sidemen. And when the action is this good, that's exactly as is should be.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
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Post by billyt on Jan 12, 2006 16:25:48 GMT -5
Great episode, the funeral fight at the start was amazing, glad to see the show back and so soon, all hail the shield.
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