THE SHIELD, season 3, eps. 1-2: “Playing Tight”/”Blood and Water”
“We’re gonna talk about this later too.” “Yeah.” Strange to talk about two episodes that…
THE SHIELD, season 2, eps. 11-12: “Inferno”/”Breakpoint”
“Lied to me?” When it’s on its full game, there is no television as intense…
THE SHIELD, season 2, ep. 9: “Co-pilot”
“It’s like he had to show me a negative so that I could see the…
THE SHIELD, season 2, eps. 7-8: “Barnstormers”/”Scar Tissue”
“I did this.” At the time of broadcast, I had never seen a run of…
THE SHIELD, season 2, eps. 5-6: “Greenlit”/”Homewrecker”
“You see a better way?” “No.” The first season of The Shield moved in fits…
THE SHIELD, season 2, eps. 3-4: “Partners”/”Carte Blanche”
The Shield’s focus on plot (I mean, holy shit, the first three episodes take place…
THE SHIELD, season 1, eps. 8-9: “Cupid & Psycho”/”Throwaway”
One of the pleasures of The Shield is how deftly it conveys, through incident and…