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American drama television series

The Shield
Genre	Crime drama Series drama Action Constabulary procedural
Created past	Shawn Ryan
Starring	Michael Chiklis Catherine Dent Reed Diamond Walton Goggins Michael Jace Kenny Johnson Jay Karnes Benito Martinez CCH Pounder Glenn Shut Cathy Cahlin Ryan David Rees Snell Paula Garcés David Marciano
Opening theme	"Just Some other Twenty-four hours" by Vivian Romero Ernesto Bautista Rodney Alejandro
Country of origin	U.s.a.
Original language	English language
No. of seasons	vii
No. of episodes	88 (list of episodes)
Product
Executive producers	Shawn Ryan Scott Brazil Glen Mazzara Charles H. Eglee Kurt Sutter Scott Rosenbaum Adam Fierro
Producer	Michael Chiklis
Product locations	Los Angeles, California
Cinematography	Rohn Schmidt
Running time	45–69 minutes
Production companies	MiddKid Productions Columbia TriStar Domestic Idiot box (flavor 1) Sony Pictures Television (seasons ii–seven) Fox Telly Studios The Barn Productions
Distributor	Sony Pictures Boob tube 20th Television
Release
Original network	FX
Picture show format	NTSC
Audio format	Dolby Surround 2.0
Original release	March 12, 2002 (2002-03-12) – November 25, 2008 (2008-11-25)

The Shield is an American criminal offence drama television series starring Michael Chiklis that premiered on March 12, 2002, on FX in the United States, and ended on Nov 25, 2008, after 7 seasons. Known for its portrayal of decadent police officers, it was originally advertised as Rampart in reference to the true-life Rampart Division police scandal, on which the show'southward Strike Team was loosely based. The series was created by Shawn Ryan and the Barn Productions for Pull a fast one on Television Studios and Sony Pictures Television.

Several notable actors took extended roles on the show, including Glenn Close, who was the female lead during the quaternary season; Forest Whitaker, who guest-starred in seasons 5 and half-dozen; Laura Harring, in season v; Franka Potente, in season 6; and Laurie Holden, in season 7.

The series has received disquisitional acclamation as well every bit several awards and nominations. It won the Gold World Award for Best Television Serial – Drama in 2002, and the last flavor won a 2008 AFI Laurels for all-time goggle box series.^[1] In 2013, Television receiver Guide ranked The Shield #50 on its listing of the threescore Best Serial of All Time.^[2] Chiklis won both the Primetime Emmy Award and Gold Globe Award for Best Atomic number 82 Thespian in a Drama in 2002.

Premise [edit]

The Shield follows the activities of an experimental sectionalisation of the Los Angeles Law Department set up in the fictional Farmington commune ("the Farm") of Los Angeles, a district rife with gang-related violence, drug trafficking, and prostitution. Operating out of a converted church ("the Barn"), they work to maintain the peace in the district and reduce law-breaking.

At the eye of the division is the Strike Squad, led by Detectives Vic Mackey, Shane Vendrell, Curtis Lemansky, and Ronnie Gardocki. Mackey and the Strike Team employ criminal methods to coerce information and phase arrests and take a share of various drug busts. Although the Strike Team's questionably high success rate leaves the division'southward caput, Captain David Aceveda, suspicious of their methods, he values their success as they help his political efforts to go mayor of Los Angeles.

Attempts to place a fifth member on the Strike Team not in Mackey'south circumvolve become astray. The airplane pilot episode concludes with Mackey, suspicious of the loyalty of the latest Strike Team recruit, Terry Crowley, fatally shooting him during an arrest and framing their suspect. This sets in motion events that loom over the Strike Team and keep throughout the serial.

The prove has an ensemble cast featuring the other officers in the Farmington commune. This includes detectives Kingdom of the netherlands "Dutch" Wagenbach, Steve Billings and Claudette Wyms, uniformed officers Sgt. Danielle "Danny" Sofer, Julien Lowe, and Tina Hanlon. The series has a diversity of subplots, notably Aceveda's political aspirations and his suffering a sexual attack; Mackey'south struggle to cope with a failing marriage, two autistic children, and rebellious eldest girl; Danny becoming a female parent; Vendrell'due south rocky, new marriage; Lemansky'due south growing fearfulness for the safety of the Strike Team; Claudette's battle with illness and Lowe's internal conflicts betwixt his Christian beliefs and his homosexuality.

The Shield and the Strike Team were inspired past the Rampart Division Customs Resources Confronting Street Hoodlums (CRASH) unit of measurement inside the Los Angeles Police Department.^[iii] Rampart was seriously considered as the series' proper noun and was even used in some early promotional ads for the series.^{[4] [five]}

Characters are portrayed with vices and virtues; Vic's loving relationship with his children contrasts with his thuggish approach to police work. Two of the many examples of Mackey'south criminal and sociopathic behavior include an try to rob the "Armenian Money Train", a money laundering functioning of the Armenian Mafia in season ii and having a police force dog maul a rape suspect.^[six]

The timeline of the seven seasons of the show covers approximately three years.^[seven]

Series overview [edit]

Season ane [edit]

Season 1 premiered on March 12, 2002, and ended on June 4, 2002, consisting of 13 episodes. The flavour deals with Mackey and Vendrell covering up their shooting of Terry Crowley, a plant on the Strike Team placed past David Aceveda and the Section of Justice who have been suspicious of the Strike Team'south activities. Dutch believes a serial killer is targeting prostitutes. Lowe struggles with his sexual orientation and his Christian morals making him a target for blackmail. Sofer, who is having an matter with Mackey, finds herself both concerned and frustrated while training Lowe.

Season two [edit]

Season 2 premiered on Jan 7, 2003, and concluded April 1, 2003, consisting of 13 episodes. The commencement half of the flavour deals with a new drug threat from Armadillo, a highly intelligent immigrant who has coerced the black and Hispanic gangs to work together, making it hard for the Strike Team to accuse him. The second half of the season deals with the Strike Squad'southward discovery of the Armenian "coin railroad train" used to ship laundered money out of the United States. Mackey and the Strike Team successfully hijack the shipment, ending up with millions of dollars for themselves. Aceveda makes an understanding with Mackey to protect each other while Aceveda runs for city council. Claudette, whose own investigation into Armadillo is hampered by Mackey and Aceveda, is forced out of her passive function and prepares to take an active function as a moral leader. Dutch makes a major mistake in an investigation and begins second guessing himself. Lowe gets married simply outed to the department by a former lover. Sofer finds herself condign a pawn in Barn politics and begins to question the Strike Team's ethics.

Season 3 [edit]

Season three premiered on March ix, 2004, and concluded on June 15, 2004, consisting of 15 episodes.^[8] The season deals with fallout from the money train robbery. Mackey learns that a portion of the money was marked by the Treasury Department, and the Strike Team figures out means of diverting whatsoever federal attending to their activities. However, the tension of having the money gets to Lemansky, and in an off-the-gage decision, burns virtually of the money before the others can finish him. This leads to the dissolution of the Strike Team. Dutch struggles to discover remainder while looking into both the money railroad train robbery and a serial rapist. Claudette begins authoritative duties in training to accept over as Captain just her qualms over a potentially incompetent defense attorney put her career in jeopardy. Afterwards the fallout of being outed in the previous season, Lowe starts taking on a tougher demeanor making Claudette question his time to come.

Season four [edit]

Flavor 4 premiered on March xv, 2005, and ended on June fourteen, 2005, consisting of xiii episodes. During this season, the members of the Strike Team become involved with the affairs of Antwon Mitchell, a highly respected drug lord who ends up blackmailing Vendrell to coerce his aid. Mackey, with the help of the new Barn Captain, Monica Rawling, manages to help Vendrell out of his situation, reunites the Strike Team, and eventually ends upwardly with sufficient prove to send Mitchell to jail. Withal, Rawling finds herself dismissed as Helm due to her approach of seizing any assets tied to drug money. Claudette and Dutch keep to exist close out of meaningful cases by the DA'south office, forcing Dutch to make a backroom deal to save his and Claudette's careers. A rift forms between Lowe and Sofer over the seizures policy. Aceveda uses the seizures policy to get more power on the city council and ultimately button his own calendar.

Flavor 5 [edit]

Season v premiered on Jan 10, 2006, and ended on March 21, 2006, consisting of 11 episodes. The LAPD's Internal Affairs Sectionalization opens an investigation led by Lt. Jon Kavanaugh against Lemansky, purportedly for not reporting a stash of drugs he had taken, only in actuality to find evidence of the Strike Team's misdeeds. Mackey learns of Kavanaugh'due south true intent, and tries to humiliate Kavanaugh to testify the investigation is personal. Enraged, Kavanaugh puts on more than pressure and charges Lemansky. The Strike Team attempts to smuggle Lemansky out of the country, but Vendrell, fearing Lemansky will talk, kills him with a grenade, ending the investigation.^[ix] Lowe trains Tina Hanlon but chop-chop believes she may not be cut out for the task. Dutch and Claudette focus on the serial killer they have no evidence against while it becomes clear Claudette's wellness is deteriorating. Billings' weak management coupled with Kavanaugh's strong-arm tactics force the LAPD primary to name a stronger and more independent Captain to the Barn, Claudette.

"Wins and Losses" [edit]

The producers of The Shield produced a 15-minute "promosode", which premiered on Google on February 15, 2007, to bridge the gap between seasons v and 6. The episode focuses on the backwash of Lemanksky's death, including his funeral and flashbacks equally co-workers reverberate upon his life.^[10] The episode was said to take price betwixt $500,000 and $1 meg to produce. It was on bud.tv for four weeks and later released to AOL and other media outlets.^[11] The "promosode" is also i of the special features included on the season v DVD gear up.

Season 6 [edit]

Season 6 premiered on April iii, 2007, and concluded on June v, 2007, consisting of 10 episodes. The Strike Team struggles with Lemansky's decease, and doubtable one of the gangs committed information technology, while Vendrell remains quiet regarding his role. Kavanaugh continues his investigation exterior of Internal Diplomacy, merely is somewhen forced to admit to planting testify and is arrested. Mackey learns he is being forced into early retirement and tries to fight back by proving his value. Tensions on the Strike Team led Vendrell to acknowledge to killing Lemansky, and knowing that Mackey volition likely kill him, he turns to the Armenian mob for protection, only to expose the team'due south role in the money-train heist, putting their families at risk. Vendrell writes up all their crimes and mails duplicates to apply equally blackmail against Mackey.^[12] Claudette fights to keep the Barn from being shut down. Dutch tries to adjust to his new partnership with Billings and his beat on Hanlon. Sofer, recently promoted to Sergeant, tries to find balance beingness a working single mother. Lowe joins the Strike Squad now under the command of Kevin Hiatt. Aceveda finds a strong financial capitalist who may be too good to be truthful.

Season half-dozen was originally intended to be aired as the second half of flavour v, but FX decided to refer to these x episodes as flavour half-dozen instead.^[13]

Flavour seven [edit]

Flavor 7 premiered on September ii, 2008, and concluded on November 25, 2008, consisting of 13 episodes. Mackey and Aceveda find the Mexican cartel is looking to influence Farmington, and piece of work with ICE to take them down. Mackey also uses the opportunity to secure a position at ICE in substitution for immunity for his crimes on the Strike Squad. The Barn gains significant bear witness to abort the Strike Squad. Vendrell attempts to kill Mackey, merely it goes awry, making him and his family fugitives. With no hold over Mackey, he kills himself and his family. Mackey successfully busts the dare for Ice, only betrays Gardocki, who is arrested for the Strike Team's crimes. Though given an Water ice job, Mackey is left to run a desk lest he get confronting his terms and be arrested also. Dutch focuses on a child he is certain will go a serial killer. Sofer attempts to go on Mackey out of their son's life. Corrine, scared when she finally realizes everything Vic is, asks for Claudette'due south and Dutch'due south help. Claudette and Dutch make one concluding attempt to go evidence to arrest Mackey and the rest of the Strike Team. The series ends as Mackey, hearing sirens in the distance, takes his gun from his desk and heads out.

Cast and characters [edit]

Character	Portrayed by	Seasons
		1	2	3	iv	v	6	7
Vic Mackey	Michael Chiklis	Main
Danielle "Danny" Sofer	Catherine Paring	Master
Terry Crowley	Reed Diamond	Chief[a]	Guest	Does not appear
Shane Vendrell	Walton Goggins	Main
Julien Lowe	Michael Jace	Main
Curtis "Lem" Lemansky	Kenny Johnson	Main					Does not appear
Holland "Dutch" Wagenbach	Jay Karnes	Main
David Aceveda	Benito Martinez	Chief
Claudette Wyms	CCH Pounder	Main
Ronnie Gardocki	David Rees Snell	Recurring			Also starring	Main
Corrine Mackey	Cathy Cahlin Ryan	Recurring			Also starring	Main
Monica Rawling	Glenn Close	Does non appear			Main	Does not announced
Steve Billings	David Marciano	Does not announced			Recurring			Principal
Tina Hanlon	Paula Garcés	Does not appear				Recurring		Principal

• Michael Chiklis as Vic Mackey – a corrupt police officer and for much of the serial, leader of the Strike Team. Though effective at acumen criminals, he has no qualms near using illegal or unethical methods, which include beating and torturing suspects, and planting evidence, tactics he regards equally a means to an cease. Mackey has committed several murders, including that of a constabulary officer, Terry Crowley, which haunts him thereafter. He is perennially under investigation past his superiors, but the Machiavellian Mackey always eludes them; as well, on occasions they plough a blind middle to his tactics when they need him to cleft a high-contour case. Mackey'south spousal relationship to Corinne, a nurse, failed because of his numerous infidelities (including with Officer Sofer, which resulted in a kid). He and Corinne have three children, two with autism, which puts more strain on him. By Flavor 7, Mackey is effectively forced out of the LAPD. He cuts an immunity deal with ICE in return for confessing all his crimes, including Crowley's murder, implicating Shane Vendrell and Ronnie Gardocki. Mackey discovers that Corinne and the children have disappeared into the Witness Protection Programme while, to his horror, his new job at ICE is a desk-bound job. Though safe from prosecution, Mackey has lost his family unit and best friends, and is now ostracized by his colleagues.
• Catherine Dent equally Danielle "Danny" Sofer – a patrol officer who aspires to go a detective. She has an on-again-off-again sexual relationship with Vic and a complicated history with Dutch. She is assigned desk duty as a result of her pregnancy and takes maternity go out after the birth of her son, Lee. The identity of the father was initially unknown; later, in the sixth-season episode "Chasing Ghosts," information technology was learned that it was Vic. Shortly afterwards, Danny returned from maternity go out early on so that she could take the position of Sergeant at the Befouled. In Season Seven Vic threatens to force Danny to take a paternity exam.
• Reed Diamond as Terry Crowley (season 1; guest season 2) – an honest, fair, effective and well-liked detective from the Robbery Division. When the Barn started operating, Aceveda brought Terry in to join the Strike Team in order to serve every bit a possible replacement for Vic if he failed as leader of the team. For a menstruum of time, Terry was the Strike Team'due south driver. After realizing that his colleagues are all dirty, Terry approached Aceveda who asked him to spy on Vic and the team so that they may build a case against them. After delivering the usual news to Aceveda, Aceveda called an associate from the Justice Department and they asked Terry to testify against the team, in substitution Terry receives a higher-paid job in Washington, D.C. and other expenses. However, Vic learned (off-screen) about the deal through his mentor Assistant Chief Ben Gilroy. Subsequently Terry asks from Vic to exist involved in the team's big busts, he and the remainder program to raid the home of a drug dealer. During the raid, Vic takes the drug dealer's gun and shoots Terry in the face, killing him.
• Walton Goggins as Shane Vendrell – Vic Mackey's best friend and partner before the Strike Squad was formed. He has a reckless streak, and his attempts to emulate Mackey's dealings quite often take a bad turn. During the course of the series, he meets and marries Mara, who later bears him a son, Jackson. When it appears that Lem has turned on the Strike Team, Vendrell kills him by dropping a grenade into his car. The ensuing guilt and grief force him to become reckless and suicidal, and when Mackey uncovers the truth, their friendship ends. Vendrell grows to regret his deportment as part of the Strike Team and expresses great remorse for what he has go. When it is revealed that he blackmailed someone to kill Ronnie Gardocki in retaliation for Mackey and Gardocki'due south attempt to kill him, Vendrell goes on the run with his wife and son. All the same, Mackey's amnesty deal with ICE ends Vendrell'south hopes of sparing himself and Mara long prison sentences by testifying confronting Mackey. He therefore poisons his son and meaning wife, and and then kills himself.
• Michael Jace equally Julien Lowe – a uniformed officeholder who is partnered with Sofer for the majority of the series. During the formation of a new Strike Team, Claudette offered Julien to Kevin Hiatt as a possible add-on to the team. Claudette made the offer to Julien, who was hesitant, mainly considering of the thought of being partnered with Vic on a daily basis. Afterward beingness bodacious that Mackey was going to be moved out of the team, Julien accepted the promotion. Despite his desire to become a fully functioning member of the Strike Team, Julien knew that he was on the outside of the clique. When the Strike Team is dissolved for the last time, he becomes a uniformed officer again. He is asked to choose which side he will be on when Claudette finally has a case to get after Mackey and Vendrell. A recurring plotline for Lowe is the conflict between his Christian beliefs and his homosexual desires.
• Kenny Johnson as Curtis Lemansky (seasons one–v) – a cop with a censor and an original member of the Strike Team. He has a history of working with kids and maintained a soft spot for them. His loyalty to Vic Mackey and the Strike Team led him to become forth with about of their illegal schemes, although he did non know about all of them, such as the murder of Terry Crowley. He burned most of the money from the Armenian Money Railroad train robbery to continue the team from getting defenseless. Burning the money acquired a temporary split within the squad, although they later got dorsum together. Shane Vendrell kills Lemansky in the Flavor five finale, because Vendrell is under the mistaken impression that Lemansky is going to rat on the rest of the team. Lem was unmarried and had no children.
• Jay Karnes equally Holland "Dutch" Wagenbach – a persistent and successful police detective, but is regarded as a pompous and socially inept nerd. He is oft the butt of jokes at the Barn, particularly from Mackey. Forth with his partner, Claudette Wyms, Dutch is the moral center of the show every bit a clean cop who does non engage in illegal activities. He shares a close friendship with Claudette and shows genuine business organization for her afterward learning of her lupus diagnosis. Dutch is normally the outset called to investigate violent crimes considering of his specialization in criminal profiling and serial killers. In Season 1 he got an impromptu circular of applause from everyone at the Befouled, including Vic, after he painstakingly proved the guilt of a suspected serial killer. Later, he was seen strangling a alive cat afterwards questioning an actual serial killer most what he sees in his victims' optics.^[14] Dutch was unsuccessful with women, merely he did accept several fleeting romances, including with Danny Sofer, and tried to ask out Tina Hanlon. He embarked on a seemingly vengeful relationship with Vic's ex-married woman, which caused even more friction with Vic and led to Dutch challenging him to a fight. Dutch's investigation into the Armenian coin train heist and his suspicions that the Strike Squad were involved somewhen brought about the quartet'due south downfall.
• Benito Martinez as David Aceveda – a politically ambitious human who was the helm of the Barn from seasons one to three. He was then elected to the Los Angeles Metropolis Quango and had ambitions to become Mayor. He is one of Vic Mackey's primary rivals, although on occasions they forged uneasy alliances for their common benefit. In Season 3, Aceveda was orally raped at gunpoint by ii gang members. He tracked down and killed one of his assailants, and struck a deal with drug lord Antwon Mitchell to have the other killed in prison. During the final flavor, Aceveda and Mackey worked together to bring down Cruz Pezuela, a corrupt man of affairs who initially bankrolled Aceveda's mayoral entrada and and then tried to bribery him with photographs of his sexual assault. At the series' close, Aceveda looked set to become Los Angeles' next mayor.
• CCH Pounder equally Claudette Wyms – a veteran detective. Claudette, along with her partner Dutch, tin can be viewed equally the voice of morality at the Barn; as a consequence, she is oft at odds with Vic over his tactics. It emerges that Claudette has suffered from lupus for fifteen years and resents Dutch's subsequent over-protectiveness of her. Confronting the orders of her superiors, Claudette reopened cases overseen by a compromised public defender, which cost her promotion to Captain. She eventually got the job in season 5. As Captain, she did her all-time to marginalize Mackey and was determined to assemble plenty evidence to indict him. She was left furious upon discovering Mackey's generous amnesty deal with the ICE. During the terminal season, her lupus returned and began to interfere with her ability to do her job. In the final episode, she admitted to Dutch that her illness is final.
• Cathy Cahlin Ryan as Corrine Mackey – was in one case married to Vic Mackey and had three children with him, ii of whom have autism. She works as a nurse and in one case had a brief courtship with Dutch. Despite needing Vic in her life, she eventually turns on him and helps Dutch and Claudette build a instance to send Vic behind bars. She is moved to witness protection by Water ice to keep her and her children away from Vic, through a fearfulness she has that he may endeavour to impairment her afterward he finds out what she has been doing.
• David Rees Snell as Ronnie Gardocki – the Strike Squad's surveillance and electronics skilful. Though piffling is known about Ronnie, he has proven to be the most solid, emotionally stable member of the Strike Team and has remained loyal to Vic out of aware cocky-involvement, knowing that divisions betwixt them would only lead to bad ends for both. The scars on his face, given to him past Armadillo in season 2, are proof of his loyalty to the squad. In the final season, he becomes the official leader of the Strike Team. He was especially angry when he learned that Shane murdered Lem, and uneasy about working with Shane again. He and Vic concoct a program to accept the Mexicans kill Shane forth with the Armenians that knew about the Coin Train robbery. Shane survives and hires a pimp to kill Ronnie, which likewise fails. When Shane flees later beingness implicated, Claudette disbands the Strike Team, forcing Ronnie to go a "conform and tie" detective while trying to aid Vic and stay out of prison house. Vic makes an amnesty deal with ICE in return for confessing all the Strike Team'southward crimes, and lies to Ronnie that he has been granted the same bargain. Ronnie simply discovers Vic's betrayal when he is arrested in the final episode and is led away blasphemous Vic.
• Glenn Shut every bit Monica Rawling (season 4) – the appointed Captain at the Befouled who took over from Aceveda, afterward Claudette was rejected. She implemented several changes, such as fixing the Barn'south male person toilets and, more importantly, creating seizure policies which proved to be somewhat controversial. She had a longstanding hatred of gang leader Antwon Mitchell and was suspicious of Mackey, even having him and his squad investigated. She finds out that Shane was solicited by Mitchell to kill Vic. She is fired after she embarrasses the DEA past voiding the immunity bargain they granted Mitchell (past getting the Strike Team to catch a Salvadoran cartel leader earlier Mitchell's data could), and the feds threaten to cut off all federal highway funding to Los Angeles if Rawling stayed.
• David Marciano every bit Steve Billings (seasons four–7) – a slack, somewhat cowardly detective who was made acting Captain afterwards the departure of Rawling and later on replaced past Claudette. Billings has an uneasy working relationship with Dutch, who dislikes his nonchalant attitude to the job. He and Dutch were partnered together after Claudette's promotion, which prompted Dutch to request a transfer, which was rejected. When he puts his heed to it, Billings is shown to exist a competent detective, simply he is more often than not known for his schemes, such every bit bringing his own vending machines into the Befouled. He usually brings Dutch in on his plots and the two have come to blows on at least 1 occasion. Subsequently being injured during a brawl between Kavanaugh and Vic, he tries to sue the department for $2 1000000, although he settles for two days' backpay.
• Paula Garcés equally Tina Hanlon (seasons 5–7) – a new recruit at the barn, who is trained by Julien. She is very attractive and well aware of her sexuality, which oft earns her the ire of Danny Sofer. Tina'due south constant mistakes would have seen her out of the strength had information technology not been for a bungle in which Billings, while trying to see who was stealing from his vending machines, obtained photos of her changing wearing apparel. He involved Dutch and, in order to protect her erstwhile partner, Claudette allowed Tina to remain on the strength under Dutch's supervision. She left the Barn subsequently beingness made a spokesperson for the police forcefulness, but opted to transfer back. She had a sexual tryst with Kevin Hiatt, which was organized by Billings, although she afterward expressed regret and said that Dutch always had a chance with her, just he never took information technology. The day on which Shane Vendrell killed himself was her first anniversary as an officer, and although he was harsh on her at times, Julien celebrated by buying her a cake and throwing her a trivial political party.

Notes

1. ^ Diamond is only credited as a series regular in the pilot episode and is credited as a invitee star in episode ii.

Development [edit]

The serial was created by Shawn Ryan. Ryan served as an executive producer for all 7 seasons and was the series head writer and showrunner throughout its run. Prior to creating the serial Ryan had been working equally a producer and writer for the supernatural detective serial Angel. He began his idiot box career as a writer for the criminal offense drama Nash Bridges. Nash Bridges was a more up-beat bear witness, and Ryan was required to write scripts that showed the hero succeeding in a positive mode, and Ryan sought to write something far different to go that out of his organisation.^[15] He had considered what a cop drama would be like on a premium cable network like HBO and Start, taking into account the edge that shows similar Homicide: Life on the Street and NYPD Blue had brought to the genre. While trying to decide a direction, the Rampart scandal within the LAPD was exposed, and Ryan took inspiration from those events to craft out a pilot script.^[5] He likewise recently became a begetter, and wrote into the script his concerns near raising a child in a crime-ridden earth.^[15] The airplane pilot script had ended with Mackey shooting Crowley; Ryan had the thought of an alternating ending to Donnie Brasco, of where Al Pacino'south mobster character would accept shot Johnny Depp's undercover FBI graphic symbol, revealing that the mobster had known his identity all along. He used this ending thought in the airplane pilot for The Shield, not expecting to have to worry about whatever consequences as he was not sure the script would be picked up.^[xv] Ryan later commented in 2017 that if he had known how long The Shield would have run for, he would have had a few more episodes to help establish Crowley's character before having Mackey kill him off.^[15]

At the fourth dimension, around the twelvemonth 2000, the FX network, a division under 21st Century Flim-flam, was looking to find what would be the network's outset drama series to help set up the tone for their network, given the ongoing success of The Sopranos on rival network HBO. FX's Kevin Reilly wanted a show well-nigh an antihero just believed that the cop genre had go tired. Nevertheless, Reilly was amazed by Ryan'southward script, and greenlit the evidence in mid-2001.^[5] Reilly worked with Ryan to aid determine how much violence and nudity could be used inside the evidence, every bit unlike HBO, FX was an ad-sponsored cable channel and appreciative to sure content considerations.^[five] Equally they were working towards this, the September 11 attacks occurred, and in their aftermath, Fox was concerned if the testify would be advisable at this time, believing that audiences would not exist receptive to seeing constabulary officers portrayed in a negative light.^[5] The situation changed following the theatrical release of Training Twenty-four hour period in October 2001, a film centered around decadent cops that was a financial success. Fox was assured by Preparation 24-hour interval 'south reception from audiences that The Shield was allowed to proceed, with the pilot starting time broadcast in March 2002.^[5]

Ryan had written the part of Mackey for someone with a young Harrison Ford personality.^[15] Due to the complexities of the graphic symbol, he was uncertain they would have found a suitable actor for the office, and cast his own doubtfulness on his writing.^[xvi] During casting, Ryan had been surprised with Michael Chiklis's audience. Chiklis had gained a soft reputation within Hollywood based on his roles from The Commish and Daddio, and felt that he needed to accept a alter of pace in futurity roles, as he was finding himself cast for older, overweight parts.^[5] Chiklis spent 6 months away from acting and losing a significant amount of weight, and for his audition on The Shield, had shaved his caput.^[5] Ryan was taken past this new appearance feeling it was non appropriate, merely found that Chiklis had a certain charisma in his commitment that worked well into the Mackey character. This allowed Ryan to write Mackey as a compassionate figure, able to become away with certain improper actions through his charisma, which served to draw fans to sympathize with Mackey throughout the series.^[15] Ryan recognized that with Chiklis as his star, it validated his success equally a writer.^[16]

Scott Brazil was a co-executive producer for the first season. He became an executive producer for the second season. He was a regular director for the series until his death during product of the sixth flavor. Brazil and Ryan had worked together on Nash Bridges.

Several of the serial more than inferior writers became executive producers during its run. Glen Mazzara was an executive story editor for the first season and became an executive producer from the fifth flavor onwards. Mazzara had also worked with Ryan on Nash Bridges. Kurt Sutter and Scott Rosenbaum were staff writers for the first season and became executive producers for the sixth flavor onwards. Adam E. Fierro joined the coiffure as a co-producer and writer for the third season and was promoted to executive producer for the seventh season. Veteran boob tube writer Charles H. Eglee joined the crew equally a consulting producer for the third season and was promoted to executive producer from the fifth season onwards.

Emmy Award-winning The Sopranos veteran James Manos Jr. served as a consulting producer and writer for the offset two seasons. He left the show to develop the Showtime serial killer drama Dexter. NYPD Blue veteran writer Kevin Arkadie was a co-executive producer for the first flavor just. Nash Bridges author and producer Reed Steiner replaced Arkadie equally co-executive producer for the 2d flavor only. Kevin G. Cremin was the series unit production manager throughout its run and became a co-executive producer from the sixth season onwards.

Angel writing team Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain joined the crew as co-producers for the tertiary season and became supervising producers before leaving at the close of the 6th flavour. Dean White was a producer and regular managing director throughout the series run. Chiklis became a producer from the 2d flavor onwards and also regularly directed episodes. Post-production supervisor Craig Yahata joined the coiffure in the third season and eventually became a producer for the seventh flavor.

The series pilot and finale were directed past Clark Johnson; Johnson had previously starred in Homicide: Life on the Street and made his directing debut on that series. Guy Ferland directed episodes for all 7 seasons of The Shield. Rohn Schmidt was a cinematographer for all seven seasons and made his television directing debut on the show. Stephen Kay was a frequent director for the series. Gwyneth Horder-Payton was an assistant director for the show'southward early seasons and made her television directing debut in the fourth flavour, she continued to regularly direct episodes thereafter.

Film director Frank Darabont directed an episode for the serial. Darabont later reunited with several writers from The Shield for his television accommodation of The Walking Expressionless comics, including Charles H. Eglee, Glen Mazzara and Adam Fierro. Acclaimed playwright and film writer and managing director David Mamet directed an episode of the series. Mamet and Ryan collaborated as executive producers on military machine thriller The Unit. Screenwriter Ted Griffin (Oceans Eleven) wrote a unmarried episode of the evidence. Griffin subsequently created Terriers and was reunited with Shawn Ryan as a fellow executive producer. The series started with existent Los Angeles Police Officers every bit Technical Advisors; Officers Pablo Vitar and Rafael Dagnesses.

Reception [edit]

Fourth dimension mag'south James Poniewozik ranked The Shield #viii in his listing of the Top 10 Returning Series of 2007^[17] and afterwards included it in his listing of the top 100 greatest Tv set shows of all fourth dimension.^[18] Entertainment Weekly named it the eighth-best Telly bear witness of the 2000s, saying, "Det. Vic Mackey didn't just clean up the streets—he cleaned upward on the streets. Would he pay for those sins? This gutsy Idiot box drama kept us guessing."^[19] On the review aggregator website Metacritic, season 1 received loftier acclamation from critics, with a score of 92 out of 100, based on 28 reviews.^[xx] Season seven also received high acclamation from critics, with a score of 85 out of 100, based on fourteen reviews.^[21] In September 2019, The Guardian ranked the evidence 77th on its list of the 100 all-time TV shows of the 21st century, stating that "a key part...of the golden age of antihero drama, this thriller about likable – and utterly corrupt – cops broke new ground for bold, risk-taking tv set".^[22]

Awards and nominations [edit]

Shawn Ryan with bandage members at the 65th Almanac Peabody Awards

The serial received six Primetime Emmy Award nominations during its series run. For the outset season, Michael Chiklis won for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, and the pilot episode received nominations for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Serial and Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, for Shawn Ryan and Clark Johnson respectively. Chiklis received a consecutive nomination Outstanding Lead Player in a Drama Serial for the 2nd flavor. For the fourth season, Glenn Close was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and CCH Pounder was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Extra in a Drama Series.^[23]

For the Gold World Awards, the series received v nominations, with Chiklis receiving three consecutive nominations for All-time Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama, and winning the honour for the starting time season. The first flavor besides earned the series the award for All-time Drama Series. Glenn Shut was also nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama.^[24]

For the Satellite Awards, the series received 7 nominations. CCH Pounder won two consecutive times for Best Performance by an Actress in a Idiot box Series – Drama,^[25] Chiklis received two nominations with one win for Best Operation by an Role player in a Television Series – Drama, and Forest Whitaker was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Serial, Miniseries or Movement Flick Made for Television.^[26] The serial won the award for Best Television Drama Series and received a nomination for that category the following year.^[27]

For the Tv set Critics Association Awards, the offset flavor received nominations for Outstanding New Programme of the Twelvemonth, Outstanding Achievement in Drama, and Programme of the Yr,^[28] and Chiklis won for Private Achievement in Drama.^[29] The series received nominations again for Outstanding Accomplishment in Drama for the adjacent 2 seasons.^{[30] [31]} For the last season, it was nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Drama and Program of the Year, equally well as receiving the Heritage Award. Also, Walton Goggins was nominated for Individual Achievement in Drama.^[32]

Other awards and nominations include a 2005 Peabody Award and Chiklis being nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Honor for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series for the first flavor.^[33]

Year	Clan	Award	Nominee	Issue
2002	Primetime Emmy Awards	Primetime Emmy Accolade for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series	Michael Chiklis	Won
		Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series	Clark Johnson	Nominated
		Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series	Shawn Ryan	Nominated
2003	Image Awards	Image Laurels for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Serial	CCH Pounder	Nominated
	Satellite Awards	Satellite Award for Best Thespian – Television Serial Drama	Michael Chiklis	Nominated
		Satellite Award for Best Extra – Idiot box Series Drama	CCH Pounder	Won
	Aureate Earth Awards	Aureate Globe Honour for Best Boob tube Series – Drama	The Shield	Won
		Aureate World Accolade for All-time Actor – Television set Serial Drama	Michael Chiklis	Won
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Pb Role player in a Drama Series	Michael Chiklis	Nominated
	GLAAD Media Awards	GLAAD Media Honour for Outstanding Drama Series	The Shield	Nominated
	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Screen Actors Guild Laurels for Outstanding Performance past a Male Actor in a Drama Series	Michael Chiklis	Nominated
2004	Golden Globe Awards	Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama	Michael Chiklis	Nominated
	Satellite Awards	Satellite Honour for Best Television Serial – Drama	The Shield	Won
		Satellite Award for Best Thespian – Tv set Serial Drama	Michael Chiklis	Won
		Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television receiver Series Drama	CCH Pounder	Won
	Prototype Awards	Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series	CCH Pounder	Nominated
2005	AFI Accolade	AFI Honour for TV Program of the Yr	The Shield	Won
	Satellite Awards	Satellite Award for Best Television Series – Drama	The Shield	Nominated
	Golden Globe Awards	Golden Globe Laurels for All-time Actor – Television Series Drama	Michael Chiklis	Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Extra in a Drama Series	Glenn Close	Nominated
		Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series	CCH Pounder	Nominated
	Peabody Awards	Area of Excellence	The Shield	Won
2006	ALMA Awards	ALMA Laurels for Outstanding Supporting Role player in a Drama Series	Benito Martinez	Nominated
	Prototype Awards	Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series	CCH Pounder	Nominated
		Paradigm Laurels for Outstanding Directing in a Dramatic Series	Philip G. Atwell	Nominated
	Satellite Awards	Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film	Forest Whitaker	Nominated
	Golden Globe Awards	Golden Earth Honour for Best Actor – Telly Series Drama	Michael Chiklis	Nominated
2007	ALMA Awards	ALMA Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series	Benito Martinez	Won
	Epitome Awards	Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Serial	CCH Pounder	Nominated
2008	ALMA Awards	ALMA Laurels for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series	Benito Martinez	Nominated
		ALMA Laurels for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series	Paula Garcés	Nominated
	Image Awards	Image Honor for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series	CCH Pounder	Nominated
2009	AFI Award	AFI Honour for TV Program of the Year	The Shield	Won
	Image Awards	Paradigm Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series	CCH Pounder	Nominated
	ALMA Awards	ALMA Award for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series	Benito Martinez	Nominated
		ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series	Paula Garcés	Nominated

Other media [edit]

Comic [edit]

In 2004, IDW Publishing released a five-outcome comic book limited series written by Jeff Mariotte and illustrated by Jean Diaz titled The Shield: Spotlight.^[34] A controversial journalist is murdered and the befouled is under intense media scrutiny. Vic and the Strike Squad observe the murderer but uncover a bigger conspiracy which has Dutch enthralled. All the while, Shane is trying to proceed his confront out of the media when he accidentally sets up a gamble to earn the squad much coin recovering stolen art, and Julien and Danny struggle to realize when is the right time to go "by the volume" and when is not. When uniformed officers spot the Strike Team with the stolen art, they have no pick but to do things the correct fashion. Aceveda is warned to drop the journalists investigation or risk losing political bankroll. He drops the instance which leaves Dutch feeling disheartened.

Domicile media [edit]

The first five seasons were originally distributed past 20th Century Trick Dwelling house Entertainment for region 1. However, in 2008, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment became the rights holders for the DVDs.^[35] They released season 6 and re-released seasons 1–five in slimmer packaging in 2008, and released season 7 in 2009. International releases have always been distributed past Sony, who accept merely ever presented the prove in 16:ix (widescreen) format, every bit opposed to the Fox releases, which presented the bear witness in 4:three. All the re-releases by Sony along with seasons 6 and vii, and the complete series box set are presented in widescreen.^[36] The Sony region two release of season v has a shortened version of the flavour finale—48 minutes, as opposed to the regular 67-minute version.^[37]

DVD championship	Release dates
	Region 1 (Fox)	Region i (Sony Pictures)	Region two	Region 4
The Consummate First Season	January seven, 2003	March 25, 2008	July 21, 2003	Feb 11, 2004
The Complete Second Season	January six, 2004	March 25, 2008	August 9, 2004	April v, 2005
The Complete Tertiary Flavour	Feb 22, 2005	March 25, 2008	May 28, 2007	May 11, 2007
The Consummate Fourth Season	December 26, 2005	March 25, 2008	July two, 2007	Nov 15, 2007
The Complete 5th Season	March 27, 2007	March 25, 2008	Jan 28, 2008	March ten, 2009
The Complete Sixth Flavor	N/A	August 26, 2008	March 24, 2008	August eighteen, 2009
The Complete 7th Season	Northward/A	June 9, 2009	June 8, 2009	November 24, 2010
The Consummate Serial	N/A	Nov iii, 2009	June viii, 2009	November 23, 2010

In November 2012, all seven seasons were made available for purchase on iTunes.^[38] On Feb 26, 2013, Amazon.com appear the addition of the series to its Prime service, but the series is at present only available for buy.^[39] The series is available for streaming on Hulu as function of FX'southward catalog. All seven seasons are available on Netflix throughout Latin America.^[40]

On August 28, 2015, Shawn Ryan appear that he was revisiting the series for a 4K conversion.^[41] In Baronial 2017, Ryan appear the release had been delayed until 2018.^[42] In July 2018, Manufactory Creek Amusement announced it would be releasing the complete series of The Shield on Blu-ray and that it would include all the extras from the previous DVD sets and includes new, exclusive featurettes.^[43] It was released on Dec 18, 2018.^[44]

Soundtrack [edit]

On September 5, 2005, The Shield: Music from the Streets was released by Lakeshore Amusement. The soundtrack features xix tracks, including two versions of the theme song and tracks ranging from artists such as Black Label Society to Kelis.

Video game [edit]

Afterwards a rocky development bike, The Shield, the video game, was released for the PlayStation ii on January nine, 2007, and for the PC on January 22, 2007. Information technology is a tertiary-person shooter that bridges the gap between the third and fourth seasons past exploring the gang war between the Byz-Lats and the One-Niners. It received generally negative reviews.^[45]

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External links [edit]

• Official website
• The Shield at IMDb

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shield

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