The Shield

The Shield Recaps

• Finalewatch: 'The Shield' -- Let the rain fall down on me...

  "That you may be the children of your Father which is in heaven; for he makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and unjust." -- Matthew 5:45

• 'The Shield': It hits the fan

  I didn't get to The Shield until early this morning, so apologies for the brevity of this post. But my goodness, that was one hell of a tense episode.

• 'The Shield': T-minus 10 days

  So let's say you just escaped a hit put out on you by your mentor and supposed best friend. Where do you go from there? If you're Shane Vendrell, aside from looking over your shoulder every couple of seconds, you respond in kind. And you set up what could be a very scary kind of standoff as The Shield enters its endgame.

• 'The Shield': Head games

  There came a point during Vic Mackey's Byzantine con game on this week's episode of The Shield that I could do little more than shake my head in admiration.

• 'The Shield': Best-laid plans

  It's a little bit of a shame that this is a PG-rated blog, because there were a couple fantastic profane lines on The Shield this week that I wish I could print in their entirety. Instead asterisks will have to suffice:

• Premierewatch, briefly: 'The Shield'

  The Shield began its final season Tuesday more or less where things left off last year -- which is to say, in a very complicated place.