The Shield
Spoilers for "The Shield" coming up just as soon as I get my iron... "Sometimes it's too late to apologize no matter how much you mean it." -Shane Like the bi-furcated final season of "The Sopranos," this last run of "The
The Shield
Spoilers for "The Shield" coming up just as soon as I pat my head and rub my tummy at the same time... "I'm in this so deep, and I don't know how to get myself out." -Olivia "You're talking
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Spoilers for "The Shield" season seven, episode four, coming up just as soon as I draw a few self-portraits... "How is that our problem?" -Shane Michael Chiklis has been given lots of wonderful, profoundly crude dialogue throughout his run on "The Shield." And yet
The Shield
Spoilers for "The Shield" season seven, episode three, coming up just as soon as I take a midterm... "We all had choices once, and we made them, and now we have to live with them." -Ronnie Though Vic and Shane are still in the middle of
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Spoilers for "The Shield" season seven, episode two, coming up just as soon as I dance in my slippers... So here's my fundamental question with this one, tied in part to my recent comments about "The Shield" at its most convoluted: Do you honestly
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Spoilers for "The Shield" final season premiere coming up just as soon as I inform my employers that, from now on, I will be giving them "The Sepinwall"... Vic Mackey is a straight-line thinker forced to live a very crooked life. He always prefers the simplest,
The Shield
Today's column goes on at greater length (while still avoiding anything really spoiler-y) the final season of "The Shield." Short version: it's really good, you guys. (Also, as FX often does, it's going to run long. My DVR has the episode in
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"Jesus, Vic, everything we do to get out of this $*&% just drags us down deeper." This quote is uttered early in the seventh and final season of "The Shield," of which eight episodes were sent out to critics last week and which I finally got
Press tour
Just got back from a very cool visit to the set of "Mad Men," and I got approval from the bosses to post press tour-related columns as soon as they're done, as opposed to waiting until they run in the paper the next day, so go
The Shield
Eagle-eyed Mo Ryan noticed that the official FX website for "The Shield" finally has a premiere date for the show's final season: September 2. Hallelujah.
The Shield
Spoilers for "The Shield" season finale coming up just as soon as I find an attractive but age-appropriate female colleague to mentor... Sigh... Franka's come and gone and without a single "Scheisse." Last July, I was helping Shawn Ryan procrastinate by seeking advice for
The Loop
Today's column is a two-fer, with a review of the Summer Burn-Off Theatre run of "The Loop" (allegedly set to begin on Sunday, but, as mentioned below, I'll believe that when I see it), and a brief preview of tomorrow night's "
