The Shield

We committed to one season of The Shield to see how we liked it.

Why is this an award-winning show? The acting is just OK (even the leads), the camera work is clunky (to say the least), the direction is all over the place, and the writing is, well, poor. I get the conflicts within the "barn" and the edginess of having morally ambiguous cops, but still there are too many speeches, too many redundancies, too many coincidences, and too many characters in the right place at the right time. Worst of all, the lead character Vic is not sympathetic, and that ruins any chance of his abuses being understood on a practical level.

This is going the way of Lost; after one season, we're outta here!