THE SHIELD, season 5, eps. 5-6: “Trophy”/”Rap Payback”
“Sorry for the inconvenience.” Shawn Ryan and Forest Whitaker made this the key to Kavanaugh’s…
THE SHIELD, season 5, eps. 3-4: “Jailbait”/”Tapa Boca”
“We’re not the typical lowlifes you represent.” After the game-changing moment of truth-revealing that ends…
THE SHIELD, season 5, eps. 1-2: “Extraction”/”Enemy of Good”
The wheels just keep on turning. . . In its use of music, in its…
THE SHIELD, season 4, eps. 9-10: “String Theory”/”Back in the Hole”
“Hey. We still got time.” Drama, as we’ve seen in these episodes, isn’t about portrayal,…
THE SHIELD, season 4, eps. 7-8: “Hurt”/”Cut Throat”
“No. Now.” Events on The Shield move from action to consequence to consequent action fast,…
THE SHIELD, season 4, eps. 5-6: “Tar Baby”/”Insurgents”
“Do you even have a clue how we’re getting out of this?” Perhaps the most…
THE SHIELD, season 4, eps. 1-2: “The Cure”/”Grave”
Pray for Caleb, Nehemiah, and Savoy Jace; may they know peace, may they heal. Pray…
THE SHIELD, season 3, ep. 15: “On Tilt”
“Everything that came after started with me. I’ll set it straight.” The Shield did something…
THE SHIELD, season 3, eps. 13-14: “Fire in the Hole”/”All In”
“He can hit and miss. You can’t miss once.”–Nate (Jon Voight) in Heat Tom Doolie…
THE SHIELD, season 3, eps. 11-12: “Strays”/”Riceburner”
“Have you ever killed something before?” Although he didn’t write the script (Glen Mazzara gets…