The episode Co-Pilot totally ruins the Shield

[Phoenix Dark]

Vic's wife is quite a wasted character imo. Breaking Bad, Mad Men, The Sopranos, and other major shows that were airing during The Shield's run feature well developed, complex wives with arcs of their own and memorable dramatic scenes with the main character. Whereas Vic's wife is pretty much an after thought, and the actress is kind of bad. Obviously the show rocks largely due to Vic Doin' Thangs but the show could have been better with a more fleshed out wife IMO.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

I finished the first season.  I've watched the show in its entirety many times but this was the first time since I watched The Wire.

I think the first half of the season had a wobbly start.  As many touched on here, the Strike Team shut down an underaged sex ring, squashed a beef between two multiplatinum selling rappers, kidnapped a famous NBA player, and then had Ben Gilroy every other episode saying that he's having trouble backing Vic.  Being the Shield taco that I am, I think it is because it was the first of its kind for FX, which had crapola like Son of the Beach before.  So they felt they had the need to go all fucking out on these crazy plots to try to draw people in.  The second half of the season develops much more strongly and gets a better footing for a strong finish.

Season 2 is one of my favorite seasons so we'll see how it holds up.

Vic's wife is quite a wasted character imo. Breaking Bad, Mad Men, The Sopranos, and other major shows that were airing during The Shield's run feature well developed, complex wives with arcs of their own and memorable dramatic scenes with the main character. Whereas Vic's wife is pretty much an after thought, and the actress is kind of bad. Obviously the show rocks largely due to Vic Doin' Thangs but the show could have been better with a more fleshed out wife IMO.

She's a bad actress but when you're married to the Executive Producer, I guess it doesn't matter.  Although there was one scene in Season 3 where you get to see her in underwear.  She had a nice ass.  Not great by any means but nice enough.  She turned in a pretty crappy performance on Justified too iirc.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

I wrapped up season 2.

In my mind, this is one of the best seasons, if not the best on the show.  The Co-Pilot episode does suck and one more flaw that TVC 15 did not point out was that Gannon in that episode is a regularly built guy.  In Season 1 Episode 7, Shane calls him a lard ass, implying Gannon was a fat loser rather than the rockstar detective who brought credibility to the Barn as stated in Co-Pilot.  It is just not a good episode.

Now I'm on to Season 3, which I have always thought was the weakest season by far.  There are a lot of tensions but it is stretched out over 15 episodes vs. the 13 that the seasons typically have.  Unsurprisingly, they could have cut out about two episodes worth of content.  The end result is that it feels like it is dragging ass in the first half.

[brawndolicious]

I've been going through the series again and it seems to me it's more like each season covers 6 months rather than a year. Think about it, in the seventh season Shane's son couldn't have been more than 3 or 4. According to the shield wikia site, season 1 begins about 4 months after the Barn was formed.

It makes sense that after that much time the Strike team would have deep connections with the drug lieutenant they put in power on the first day of the Barn, taking out his competition and getting a kick-back. Terry was also in the Co-Pilot episode after Aceveda convinced him to join the Strike team to take over once Mackey "fails", but he wasn't actually brought on to the Department of Justice investigation until 4 months later in the pilot episode. So after 4 months, Aceveda gets suspicious enough of this Strike team leader that Gilroy forced on him that he decides to formally investigate.

I'm just guessing and have no idea, but it at least seems plausible that this much could happen in 4 months. Acaveda was said to have little street experience so that could be why he is new to detectives like Mackey and decided not to start a bureaucratic fight over getting him and Shane off the Strike team before trying them out. As for Julien, he was always naive about how the police in Farmington actually do things and it wasn't until season 3 with the seizure program that he starts to wise up. It's a confusing episode and makes no sense if you assume that each season covered about one year of time.

[Diunx]

Jesus Vic's daughter looks like Micheal Cera in drag.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Oh man, that chick in the second episode of the fourth season :babylawd

[TVC15]

I watched this ep again on the commute home today. I googled it to see if I could find more info on why it exists, and this thread is still the fourth hit, behind The Shield wikia, IMDB, and an AV Club review. Fellas, we're still the top independent source for bitching about Co-Pilot.

Also, re-reading this thread served to remind me of some of the few Bore posters worse than etoilet.

[Phoenix Dark]

Man what's wrong with this show's streaming rights? Apparently it was on Euro Netflix last year, it was also on Hulu for a bit. Now lord knows where it's at.

I want to rewatch it, preferably on Netflix since I'm too lazy to sign up for another site.

[TVC15]

Man what's wrong with this show's streaming rights? Apparently it was on Euro Netflix last year, it was also on Hulu for a bit. Now lord knows where it's at.

I want to rewatch it, preferably on Netflix since I'm too lazy to sign up for another site.

It's still on Hulu. I'm on the cheapest paid tier if that has anything to do with you not seeing it.

[toku]

man what a cast and yea it's on hulu pd

[TVC15]

If you need something on Netflix PD, queue up some Gossip Girl, call me on my cell, and we can simultaneously touch ourselves.

[El Babua]

Really gotta re-watch this again.

Best ending to a TV show ever.

[Phoenix Dark]

Wow it's still on hulu huh. I haven't logged in in ages (I signed up ages ago before there was a subscription tier).