The Shield - Series 1

Starring: Glenn Close, Michael Chiklis Original UK Premiere: 2002 Dvd Release: 21st July, 2003 Number Of Discs: 4 Format: Box set, PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding

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The Shield is an American television series, in the police drama genre, aired by the FX Network. The show is notable for its portrayal of some of the police officers as both corrupt & brutal. The story follows the character Vic Mackey as the leader of a group of rogue members of the Los Angeles Police Department called The Strike Team. The group uses a variety of violent & extortive methods to maintain peace on the streets. Although effective, many of the other police officers are critical of the groups methods & maintain the dictum the end does not justify the means. Detective Shane Vendrell - Walton Goggins. Detective Curtis Lemonhead Lemansky - Kenny Johnson. Detective Holland Dutch Wagenbach - Jay Karnes. Officer Danielle Danny Sofer - Catherine Dent. Posters Of The Shield

Teeming with gang-bangers, perverts, rapists & killers, The Shield is unabashedly adult TV drama; & even liberal viewers may flinch at plots involving child pornography & serial murder. The first series of this uncompromising police drama focuses on pugnacious detective Vic Mackey , whose amoral Strike Team employs dubious tactics in the crime-ridden Farmington district of Los Angeles. Mackey & his maverick partners are at odds with seasoned detectives & beat cops, escalating tensions with precinct Captain Aceveda , a Latino with flexible scruples & a political agenda.

The series invites viewers to form their own judgments regarding Mackeys volatile behaviour, which includes killing an undercover cop in the electrifying pilot episode. While each episode stands alone, the arc of the series incorporates Acevedas campaign to end Mackeys career, the self-loathing of a homosexual rookie whose partner is Mackeys occasional mistress, a straight-laced detective yearning for respect, Mackeys compassionate attempt to rehabilitate a crack whore , the autism of Mackeys young son & the recklessness of his closest partner & the vigilant stoicism of Det. Wyms , whos as sensibly upright as Mackey is corrupted. The Shield is excellent TV for those who can grasp its complexities; all others beware. ,

Glenn Close is an American film & stage actress. She was born in Greenwich, Connecticut & attended the College of William & Mary, becoming a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. She has been nominated for 5 Academy Awards, for Best Actress in Dangerous Liaisons & Fatal Attraction & for Best Supporting Actress in The Natural, The Big Chill & The World According to Garp. She has also been nominated for 8 Emmys & 7 Golden Globes. Rex - Richard Rodgers musical about Henry VIII. Barnum - musical about Phineas T Barnum. Sunset Boulevard - Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on the movie. Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her. Posters Of Glenn Close

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