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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Van Cruncheon on June 11, 2007, 04:47:43 PM

Title: i bought the shield seasons 1 & 2 today.
Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 11, 2007, 04:47:43 PM: $20 each at best buy! will i like this series, evilbore? does it have hungry and brutal cops living life on the edge? on a scale of CHiPS to Hill Street Blues, where does it land?
Title: Re: i bought the shield seasons 1 &2 today.
Post by: CajoleJuice on June 11, 2007, 04:48:16 PM: I made a thread about this sale. Why do you need your own thread?!? :maf

I bought Seasons 1-4

I WIN

In all seriousness, just watch the pilot. It's awesome.
Title: Re: i bought the shield seasons 1 & 2 today.
Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 11, 2007, 04:49:28 PM: i almost bought all 4, but i wanted to make sure i liked it first, although i really can't go wrong with gritty urban crime dramas.
Title: Re: i bought the shield seasons 1 & 2 today.
Post by: MrAngryFace on June 11, 2007, 04:50:08 PM: I bought:

(http://www.dan42.com/millennium.actress/img/DVD_R1.jpg)

(http://homedir-b.libsyn.com/podcasts/6b662f21744c560ce2c344e64f2deb54/466db0ca/weeklyanimereview/images/memories.jpg)
Title: Re: i bought the shield seasons 1 & 2 today.
Post by: CajoleJuice on June 11, 2007, 04:50:44 PM: Actually, there's 5. I'm gonna go back in a few hours and use my third $10 off coupon on Season 5. I'm trying to be all sneaky about it. :-[
Title: Re: i bought the shield seasons 1 & 2 today.
Post by: TVC15 on June 11, 2007, 04:51:55 PM: The first episode is just an hour of vic mackey chewing on his toenails while popping pimples on other people's asses.
Title: Re: i bought the shield seasons 1 & 2 today.
Post by: CajoleJuice on June 11, 2007, 04:52:40 PM: Quote from: TVC 15 on June 11, 2007, 04:51:55 PM
The first episode is just an hour of vic mackey chewing on his toenails while popping pimples on other people's asses.

SPOILERS
Title: Re: i bought the shield seasons 1 & 2 today.
Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 11, 2007, 04:53:36 PM: omg, the shield is just flame of callandor's porn collection as serialized by the fx network! nooooooo!
Title: Re: i bought the shield seasons 1 & 2 today.
Post by: border on June 11, 2007, 04:54:32 PM: Good decision. Just finished watching Season 6 and it's still pretty good....
Title: Re: i bought the shield seasons 1 & 2 today.
Post by: MrAngryFace on June 11, 2007, 04:54:44 PM: POP DEM ZITS
Title: Re: i bought the shield seasons 1 & 2 today.
Post by: Fragamemnon on June 11, 2007, 04:54:53 PM: I've only seen the first two seasons, and I loved them-this despite general my low tolerance for television drama.

I think you'll really dig what you picked up.

PAY RAISE DAY and the wife is out of town ( :( :( ), so I am getting some DVDs and some more science fiction novels.
Title: Re: i bought the shield seasons 1 & 2 today.
Post by: CajoleJuice on June 11, 2007, 04:56:12 PM: I've only seen the first two seasons too, Frag. I think I missed the last few episodes of Season 2 though, and that's why I stopped watching. I always meant to catch up, but never did. I used to have a back-to-back Monday lineup of 24 and The Shield. It was glorious.
Title: Re: i bought the shield seasons 1 & 2 today.
Post by: T234 on June 11, 2007, 04:57:03 PM: cajole, even though in every picture I've seen of him he looks like his mom just walked in on him masturbatin, is made of win.
Title: Re: i bought the shield seasons 1 & 2 today.
Post by: TVC15 on June 11, 2007, 04:57:37 PM: I bought, uh, season 2 of the shield. Millenium season 1 (never seen it, but I am a sucker for X-Filesy shit, and hey, it was only 20 bucks). The DOORS (even though I hate them, Oliver Stone was the bomb when his game was on). And The Corporation. And a stack of blank DVDs so I can burn me some DOCTOR WHO.
Title: Re: i bought the shield seasons 1 & 2 today.
Post by: Fragamemnon on June 11, 2007, 05:02:58 PM: Quote from: TVC 15 on June 11, 2007, 04:57:37 PM
Millenium season 1 (never seen it, but I am a sucker for X-Filesy shit, and hey, it was only 20 bucks).

I think you'll REALLY like this series. It's one of my favorites, brilliantly written for the first two seasons, and does both occult and horror at the same time. Also, Lance Hendrickson is amazing in it.

Sad to see the series take a nosedive in Season 3 and then get killed off. It was really, really good.
Title: Re: i bought the shield seasons 1 & 2 today.
Post by: TVC15 on June 11, 2007, 05:07:59 PM: Quote from: Billy Rygar on June 11, 2007, 05:05:26 PM
All I ever got out The Shield is THIS COP IS FUCKING CRAZY WATCH HIM DO CRAZY STUFF LOOK AT HIS BALD HEAD HE EVEN LOOKS CRAZY THIS SHOW IS FUCKING CRAZY EDGY DO YOU LIKE YOUR TELEVISION FUCKING CRAZY IN YOUR FACE WATCH THE SHIELD IT'S FUCKING CRAZY.

That's how the show likes to portray itself, and Mackey is a pretty awesome badass, but it is a legitimately good television show with a bit of depth to it. Mackey isn't a one note character, either, but playing up to his badassness is what people apparently like.
Title: Re: i bought the shield seasons 1 & 2 today.
Post by: Fragamemnon on June 11, 2007, 05:09:47 PM: I find Mackey's weaknesses-and all the complications that they cause for him-far more interesting than his badassitude.

Also, Dutch Boy is awesome.
Title: Re: i bought the shield seasons 1 & 2 today.
Post by: TVC15 on June 11, 2007, 05:12:17 PM: Drinky should also check out THE WIRE.
Title: Re: i bought the shield seasons 1 & 2 today.
Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 11, 2007, 05:23:45 PM: i heard good things about the wire, and i'm really in a COPS ON DA EDGE mood.
Title: Re: i bought the shield seasons 1 & 2 today.
Post by: CajoleJuice on June 11, 2007, 05:28:43 PM: Quote from: TVC 15 on June 11, 2007, 05:12:17 PM
Drinky should also check out THE WIRE.

I concur with this statement.

Drinky, this is a COP ON DA EDGE.

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Title: Re: i bought the shield seasons 1 & 2 today.
Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 11, 2007, 05:32:59 PM: :lol

tvc, see if you can find the "make that mouth" scene from the bad lieutenant on youtube