Any fans of FX Network's 'The Shield' here?..

[Princess Turandot]

perhaps not the most PC show for this forum, but I think it's a great show. I was shocked & pleased to see that Glenn Close has joined the cast. Her character looks like she will be very interesting.

[FormerDittoHead]

1. You mean one of the best shows on TV today? Yes.

It's like a less confusing "The Wire", which lost me on the VERY FIRST EPISODE this season.

Chiklis is GREAT as the good cop with a bad streak.

The characters are complex and the stories don't neatly wrap up at the end of every show (like all of those Law & Order / Wolf shows).

And being an adult, I appreciate the realistic (graphic) language and situations.

[Princess Turandot]

3. My much older brother..

who is NYPD retired on an honest-to God job related disability, likes 'The Wire' and sent me a tape of several episodes of it. I could not make heads or tails of it, at all. And I actually lived in B-more for 5 years.

Chiklis is astonishing, IMO. It's hard to imagine he is the same actor who did the 'Commish' years ago! The first episode alone proved that. If you told me five years ago that I would some day consider Chiklis to be 'hot', I would have advised you to get a script of thorazine! And now with the addition of Glenn Close, who seems like a cop's cop, as opposed to Acevedo, I think that the season has great potential. It's mind boggling to imagine a show with a male Captain getting raped, a cop taking money from drug dealers yet caring enough to arrange a real funeral for a prostitute turned informant and winding his way thru the tragedy of 2 autistic children.

The pilot of 'The Shield' was directed by Clark Johnson, who was my fav my character in another excellent cop show set in B-more, 'Homicide, Life on the Streets." (He played Det. Meldrick.)

Awhile ago, I bought season one & two on DVD. I wasn't working at the time so I watched them straight through. I'm eager to buy Season 3.

Thanks for responding! I was starting to worry that there was something wrong with me for liking this show so much..

[Princess Turandot]

4. I did enjoy this week's episode, when Glenn Close informed..

a prior rape victim that her escaped rapist had been re-apprehended with the aid of a police dog. When the victim asked if the rapist was in jail, Close told her he was in the hospital, since the dog managed to mangle one of his testicles, while subduing him. 'Dogs often have great sense about people.'

Classic Vic. Classic Shield.

Does the show's redneck bite the dust this season?
Does Vic use what he knows abt Acevedo's prior uhm, 'mishap' to slap him down? (I can't believe that he is getting even more smarmier!)
Does Close remain a compassionate hard-ass, maybe just a slightly more virtuous version of Vic?

[Goblinmonger]

2. Love it

I have liked the show from the beginning. I have not seen each episode from this season yet.

I think FX is doing a good job with their programs. I am not overly hot on Nip/Tuck, though it has its merits. But I really do enjoy Rescue Me.

[FormerDittoHead]

5. The show just keeps getting better...

This series reminds of "the talented Mr. Ripley" (????) in that the characters keep getting out of one jam but then deeper and deeper into another and you have NO IDEA how they're going to work their way out it.

Just about the best thing on non-pay TV.