The Shield – Finale

I’ve been watching the TV series The Shield since the first episode, and it’s always been stunning. It’s a lot darker than most TV series, and a lot more morally grey, based around the life of a corrupt police squad in a district of LA. The prime character, Vic Mackey, has throughout been juggling gangs and drug dealers with the needs of the police – including robbing the Albanian Mafia of $2m for the needs of his team and their families.  You can begin to see what I mean about morally grey…

Anyway, this week was the final episode – it’s been going for seven seasons, and the writers decided to bring it to a proper close, rather than leaving things open to fate and falling viewing statistics.

And it was the right thing to do – the finale was just as stunning as the first episode, with everything being brought to a close. Mackey continued to be a scheming swine, and all the other stories came to a pretty satisfactory close too.

All told, yeah, I’m dead impressed. Might even consider getting the full seven-series box-set (once it’s come down in price a bit, anyway)