Posts Tagged ‘Vic Mackey’

November 26, 2008 1

Don’t touch the thermostat and the lights go off automatically– thoughts on The Shield: Family Meeting

By Scott Cederlund in television

Spoilers and foul language to follow Here’s how fucked up The Shield was: up until the last 45 minutes or so, I was hoping for a happy ending.  I wanted Vic and Ronnie to run away and head down to Mexico.  I wanted Shane, Mara and Jackson to be a family together.  I wanted the [...]

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October 27, 2008 1

Can Vic out race a bullet?– thoughts on the final episodes of The Shield

By Scott Cederlund in television

For almost six seasons, I’ve waited and anticipated what I thought needed to be the bloody and just ending of the show.  The “hero” Vic Mackey was a bad, bad man and I believed that there was no way he could just go on and live a happy life when all was said and done.  [...]

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