This is the most underrated show of all time . It’s honestly a crime there are not multiple Emmy’s ! If anyone ever reads this , THANK YOU ! Also I love that the cast is so close and is proud of what they did . It’s not like other shows where everyone is bitter and angry!
@@rolandmiller5456 The Wire came out the same time as The Shield. I often wonder if Shawn in way was influenced by The Wire because Season 4 was kinda Wire-esque.
@@rolandmiller5456 actually Hill Street Blues and Homicide Life On the street opened doors for all three of those shows and any modern drama today. So everyone should thank those two shows and pay them the respect they deserve.
Garrett Webster: Maybe The Sheild could be considered underrated for the first season, or second. But by season 3, everyone was figuring out just how awesome this show was; and it definitely began getting much more recognition.👍
When I see him "alive" in other TV shows I'm like OMG Lem is alive!! The zoom in on Shane after Vic promises bloody vengeance omfg I couldn't wait til season 6!! And didn't disappoint!!
@@slurmsmackenzie5729 Nah, at least Lem got to die rather than live the rest of his days in prison. And if I got a grenade dropped there, I'd wanna die too.
and his small role in Sons of Anarchy, which could have been a total joke or treated as only comedy relief, but his performance was brilliant and touching.
From around season 3 of the shield I had the feeling he was a special talent and he’s only continued to prove so ever since but I don’t think he’ll ever top his incredible work in the final three seasons of the shield. I’m hoping his recent rise in popularity will get this show a little more attention.
The Shield was ahead of its time, and WELL worth the watch!!!! This reunion only proves that when a crew gets together and it clicks, it REALLY CLICKS!!! Thank you for giving us 7 years of pure enjoyment!!!
One of the best, realistic, dynamic shows ever been filmed. I watched it 7 times, and always get the same emotions from every damn scene. Gold collection!
The Shield is the best cop series ever made….finally a cop show that wasn’t the usually cliche crap. I believe this show was a far more realistic take on cops.
@@kendallrivers1119 Hill Street Blues was the usual cop crap…I remember David Caruso asking a prisoner in a New York/Jersey accent, “Has anyone ever slapped you real..real..hard?” Yeah, I know the show..so..so. Didn’t watch the other one however, so can’t comment on it. Better show hi ever is The Wire, ever watch that?
@@airesdarkvanlore3074 Wrong show because David Caruso was never on it lol. And no Hill Street wasn't the usual cop crap. It changed the look, tone and style of cop shows and tv dramas in general as well as made it possible for The Shield to even exist because Shawn Ryan was inspired by it and purposely took some of the style for The Shield. The Wire is highly overrated so no I don't watch it lol.
@@kendallrivers1119 :HSB& H- maybe inspirational but nobody gives a shit They were inspired by the Streets of San Francisco but so what ?…… DRAGNET ??…. Christ let it go - the SHIELD smashed down the door of TV shows of today ….. not pay tv like HBO -not knocking the Sappranos but not everyone has access to watch those programs back then or now : this show opened the flood gates for Rescue Me , SOA , Breaking Bad , OZARK and countless others
I remember when Glenn Close was announced as the captain I was bummed out because I was looking forward to CCH becoming Captain. But Glenn Close was absolutely remarkable! Probably my favorite performance from her. That scene with her and Chiklis interrogating Antwon was so freaking amazing.
Not only that but the scene where she’s saying goodbye to Vic for the last time and Monica just breaks down into to tears when he leaves her house, I fucking felt that. I know what it’s like to try to be strong on the outside that your holding so much emotion and you wait till your alone to finally let it all out. Glenn Close was on point.
@@NightmareKing305 it also felt, for her and for us, like Vic's last chance to climb out of everything he's been doing and start being an effective officer again. She believed in him, and he genuinely responded to that. And then one episode later, here comes Forest Whitaker and takes a wrecking ball to all of that, and you know whatever else happens, Mackey is not coming back around.
I just finished the show for the 3rd time. First time in 10+ years. Wow. I knew this was my favorite show....but i forgot how great it was. Now in my 30s i was able to appreciate it on a whole different level. The cinematography, the acting, the cameos, the writing...... personally i put this show above the sopranos. Fucking fantastic.
Same here, just finished it last week also third time and in my 30s. Damn i wish i could watch it for the first time again, but knowing how it ends and see everything unfolding... it was awesome and very hard to watch again.
This is the best reunion I've ever seen. I have so much respect for all these people. Their work enriched my life journey. Watching The Shield felt like an amazing adventure.
The director was fantastic...the zooming in during iconic scenes made it something totally different i hadn't seen in other cop dramas...best tv series of all time...any time a cast member is on another show it automatically grabs my attention...the ENTIRE cast...
He hasn’t come near it. By far his magnum opus. Really all he’s made since are standard ass cop shows. But he has hinted as a possible return to the world of The Shield.
walter goggins deserved an emmy/golden globe for his performance as shane vendrell. he was also great on justified as boyd crowder and deserved to be awarded. he's an amazing and underrated actor the shield was robbed of many best writing/acting awards. the show had huge guest stars that killed it in their roles (forrest whitaker, glenn close, anthony anderson)
This was awesome. I still think this is one of the best written shows of all time. There were so many incredibly written and acted moments in this show.
I’m almost crying when I watch this, bringing back all these memories of The Shield. I watch it once a year, since it aired, and I’m still amazed about it. ☺️
the confession was the most amazing cold feeling realest scene in tv history. he was so beloved yet to see and hear him unload all of his crimes made you really see the monster he became
More to the point, he'd spent three years running and lying, and he sits there and his only hope to get out of it is to turn and look directly into the face of everything he's become. And what's better, we had Agent Murray there to be the person who hadn't gone through that with Vic or with the audience. Someone who is hearing all this for the first time, without the context that made us sympathize with and even root for him, to illustrate just how, as you said, monstrous it all was.
I will never forget randomly coming across the pilot of the Shield. The whole first season was being shown on TV that night and I stayed up to watch the whole thing. Literally changed my life.
I’m 22 years old and I wasn’t old enough when the show first aired so I just finished it for the first time after hearing about it last year and it became one of my all time favorites so quick
@@andresl1244 Yeah its easy to forget now, but Prison Break was huge for a couple of years. And that first season bangs really hard, too bad they couldn't keep it up.
And Dutch with Strike Team members, he had constant beefs with Vic and Shane, in one scene Ronnie, Shane and Vic ridiculed him as they were watching him singing Hungry Like A Wolf, Lem is the only member of the Team who was good with Dutch
@@mariozd971 Yeah even after Lem's death, Dutch didn't seem to find it right that Lemansky was denied a police funeral. In the first episode of Season 6, Dutch said with such aggravation "I haven't heard a peep out of downtown. No police funeral. No Press Conference. It's like Lemansky never wore a badge." Hell even Claudette went to his funeral. Dutch I'm sure would have been there too but he was in the process of following a lead that Vic Shane and Ronnie beat him too after the funeral.
To me Lem's most powerful scene was when he was hidden and went to the next trailer just to help a child, blowing his hideout JUST TO DO THE RIGHT THING ! And then his brother killed him ! I love Kenny he's such a great actor, built like a f*** brickhouse and so believable as as a sensitive Joe !
Over 20 years later hands down best show ever thank you Shawn Ryan 🙏🏽 n the whole Shield cast you guys were absolutely phenomenal bringing those characters n world to life blessed to have watched that masterpiece great reunion friends that became family,Mackey will always the villian who I love
I remember my wife got me the box set as a stocking stuffer on the first christmas we shared as bf and gf . And i was so impressed that she would know this was favorite show or at least liked it because our taste in movies and shows are polar opposite( i finally got her into anime). Its only until a couple years ago did i find out she had conspired with my brother and my had said to the shield because he was a huge fan and knew he could take it whenever he wanted . And turns out its currently in a shelf in his house.
The thing i love about Claudette's moment at the elevator is that Dutch snaps her out of it not by being her subordinate, or trying to reason with her or save his job. He just speaks to her as her friend. However everything else works out is tomorrow's problem but right now i need to make sure my friend is okay.
I love Oz too, although it probably messed up my world view a little bit :) Shawn Ryan gave a shout out in another interview for Oz paving the way for The Sopranos (which had to play a part in The Shield getting greenlit).
One of the greatest shows of all-time. It was really cool to see the connection the cast had to one another and they genuinely liked each other. I had no idea about the friend and family dynamics outside of the show either
Best show of all time, bar none. I cannot tell you how much in love with the show that I am. I didn’t find it until season four was started but after watching the very first episode of season one, I immediately binged every episode up until I was caught up.
This show has made so much of an impact on me that I haven't really seen anything that comes close. This includes Breaking Bad, The Wire, Halt and Catch Fire - I call those shows my 2nd tier favorite shows. The Shield just hit so differently. I understand how the cast can't seem to move on from being part of this impossibly great work of television. This show for some reason really made me know the characters like nothing I've ever watched
At the end of the program, they cry .. And I cry))). This is one of the best series I have ever seen. Thank you from all the viewers to the whole team for this miracle!
Out of all the programs iv watched, this is the very best. I'm still amazed at the amount of people who have not even heard of it even though its 20 years old now. Iv just watched it again for the first time in 12 years
This show knocked me right out. The grittiest most raw in your face thing I think I had ever seen. From the end of that first episode I knew this was going to be different. Love seeing this, them talking about those days.
The Shield was one of two shows I have ever watched (I am 50) where nearly every episode's writing was perfect. I remember so many times exclaiming at the end of an episode how they nailed the ended. It made me eager to see the next episode. It also, in a time before streaming, was a show that I knew religiously, the continuity of the characters' stories, everything. For them to make a weekly show where we all devoured each subplot and each relationship was artistic. The only other show that I thought compared to it on acting and writing was the HBO show it competed against for Emmy's and Golden Globes. I for one give the edge to The Shield.
You have to be talking about the Wire right? At the time to preferred the Shield but the Wire holds up better over time. Both were groundbreaking and still revurb to this day but the Shield was a bomb and the Wire was a slow burn. Both in they're approach to story telling and the fan appreciation.
This is such an amazing reunion. Hands down one of the best TV shows of all time. Embedded in my top 10 forever. The Shield, NYPD Blue, and Homicide: Life on The Street were the finest police dramas of all time. Thanks for the upload!
Don't forget Hill Street Blues. In The Heat Of The Night was Damn good too. I can't stand most cop shows because they're too generic with cookie cutter characters and storylines but these shows were special.
You said it. And i remember the first episode, I fell in love with it. It seems like most other shows you have to watch 4-5 episodes just to figure out who’s who. But in The Shield, everyone just fell in place and everything just meshed right away in the pilot. Amazing show.
Man I loved this show. Immensely. Broke my heart when Shane dropped that grenade in on Lem. That was the absolute hardest scene to watch and digest. Poor Lem was so trusting, scared and hurt in that scene and then Shane just plopped it in there.
Même le producteur de cette série m'a fait pleurer, c'est de loin la meilleure séries dramatiquo-policière de tous les temps... Comment décrire ce qu'ils nous ont apporté pendant sept ans de notre vie, c'est impossible. Merci à vous !
Anthony Anderson gave me nightmares. Dude stepped up his acting and the intro was always so sick how they would play a solid 5-10 mins and then after something crazy happened…” JUST ANOTHER DAYYYYYYY”
I loved the intro after the crazy stuff too! In another interview Shawn Ryan said they had fifteen thousand dollars to make an intro for the pilot and he decided to try and do a cheap one in-house so he could use the money for something else. So he asked the editor for some simple text but moving kind of jangly on the screen. He went to dinner and by the time he came back, the editor had put together the intro graphic using a font called Crack House.
Fantastic watch for Shield fans, thankyou! The first TV series to really hit me hard and sucked me in, my first binge watch on DVD from memory, and something I will do again, but to be honest I'm a little scared to go through all that again!! My first TV rollercoaster ride.
Probably the best show I’ve ever seen. I keep wanting to rewatch but it’s so bloody emotionally draining when everything starts falling apart (which is a good thing as what other show does that as well as The Shield).
This is my FAVOURITE TV series of all time and it never got the love it deserved. At the time a lot of folks dismissed it because 'The Wire' was so popular, so hopefully now it will get its due.
Pala 3° vez estou assistindo a série inteira... E a emoção é a mesma como se não houvesse assistido nenhuma. Tenho todos DVDs guardados relíquias !!! Vocês são simplesmente os melhores reunidos na melhor série do mundo... De todos os tempos. ❤🔥💀👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🇧🇷
such a great show, you guys gel so well together no wonder you make such a great show. thank you for the great entertainment, its the most underrated show ever
The Shield was a massive part of my life for 7 years and a pretty big part ever since. When I get asked about Shield vs Sopranos I give this personal anecdote. Back in Autumn 2009 my wife was pregnant with our first child. I was nervous. And in order to have something that I could judge according to time and let the pregnancy go quicker, I decided in about October 2009 to watch all the Sopranos and all Shield. Alternately. Sopranos one day. Shield the next. That lasted until about April. I always remember the difference. When I'd finished watching an episode of The Shield, I was always blown away, and whilst I loved Sopranos, I always felt like I wanted to watch Sopranos just so I could get to the next episode of The Shield. When I'd finished watching a Sopranos episode I was always on a high knowing The Shield was next. Sopranos I LOVED to watch. Shield I HAD to watch.
In my opinion I prefer the sopranos because I found it more consistent but the shield at its best was far better than the sopranos at its best and the ending was much much better probably my favourite ending to a tv show ever.
I love both shows and first watched them in real time, but it got harder for me to watch The Sopranos the more we got to know the characters. There was some of that for The Shield too, but there was also some hope there that I didn't see on The Sopranos. I recently re-watched both of them and appreciated The Sopranos alot more now that I could more objectively view the characters. But The Shield still hit me so hard and reminded me of how much of an impact it had made on my life.
Whenever the best dramas are mentioned - Sopranos, Breaking Bad, 24 etc , The Shield will always be at the top. It is unmatched. There had never been anything like it and there has not been anything remotely like it since
I was with some friends an one of them said hey you ever seen the shield, I was like I heard of it but never seen it, saw the pilot an was hooked. My friend only had 6 seasons the final season had just come on dvd, i saw the last season at fye an surprised my friends with it 😂an we built a crazy friendship because of this show lol im forever grateful for that
The Shield was the best show ever and I’m not a TV watcher. All of these actors were phenomenal and they really had something special. I have the entire series on DVD.
The most underrated show ever. Shame that Michael Jace did what he did, he could been with them or at least talked about because he had the most interesting arc on the show. Also Forest Whitaker, the man really elevated the level of acting. Love The Shield forever.
That’s true, Michael Jace really fucked up doing his wife like that which makes him a piece of shit and he most definitely deserves to be where he is now for the next 35 years but admittedly he was really good in the shield despite what people say.
Agreed with everything you said except for the first sentence. The Shield is one of the most revered shows ever made, it is literally the antithesis of underrated. It is beloved, and its influence on the medium isn't lost on anyone lol
Thank you Shawn and thank you to this incredible cast for this wonderful, phenomenal, show they all worked to put together! I’ve watched the show 3 times all the way through - when it aired was the first time, and I just watched it through recently for the first time in nearly a decade. Man does this show hit differently as you watch it at different points in your life. The emotional roller coaster was already a hard hitter when I watched it for the first time in my teens, but after my third time in my 30s as a street cop of 11 years, with a wife and baby boy? Man did Shane’s ending arc hit with so much more of an emotional gut punch. Incredible writing, incredible show. Stupidly underrated, and I’d throw it against any of the Goliath’s like Sopranos and Breaking Bad
I haven’t watched tv for 10 years. My brother and niece just passed away in December and it absolutely has destroyed me. I try to take my mind off of it so I asked my sister for her Hulu password so I could watch something. Mind you I’ve always been wanting to watch the shield because I used to watch clips of it on TH-cam just like sopranos and the wire. So I’m on S4 E9 and it’s the best show I have ever watched. I’ve already been watching clips farther up to see what happens I couldn’t help myself. I’ve seen what happens to Vic and Shane and Lem. I can understand know how Vic feels losing everything. I know what that feels like. I can feel his pain. I wish I could’ve died with my brother and niece because I’m already dead. I go to sleep every night wishing I don’t wake up anymore. I’m so lost and broken. I can’t believe this happened. This can’t be real. I’ve lost myself in this show and it has helped me. Thank you for helping me ❤️
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Chiklas has been a 50 year old man for 35 years
He's not even 60. Which is incredible.
The commish.
@@Cmdrjo The Commish!!! I never missed an episode of that show.
he's 60 now and he still looks 50
🤣🤣🤣
This is the most underrated show of all time . It’s honestly a crime there are not multiple Emmy’s ! If anyone ever reads this , THANK YOU ! Also I love that the cast is so close and is proud of what they did . It’s not like other shows where everyone is bitter and angry!
You can thank shows like The Wire and The Sopranos for The Shield. Those shows opened the door for shows like this.
@@rolandmiller5456 The Wire came out the same time as The Shield. I often wonder if Shawn in way was influenced by The Wire because Season 4 was kinda Wire-esque.
@@rolandmiller5456 actually Hill Street Blues and Homicide Life On the street opened doors for all three of those shows and any modern drama today. So everyone should thank those two shows and pay them the respect they deserve.
Gain some facts and learn what underrated means show got its recognition
Garrett Webster: Maybe The Sheild could be considered underrated for the first season, or second. But by season 3, everyone was figuring out just how awesome this show was; and it definitely began getting much more recognition.👍
I love that CC and Jay are sitting together. I loved their partnership in the show. ❤️
Aceveda and Vic next to each other, Lem and Shane next to each other. it all was very intentional and it was great
Man, you can see why Lem's death devastated the cast the way it did. Kenny is such a sensitive, thoughtful, likable guy.
THAT scene, at the time, was genuinely shocking albeit entirely organic to the plot
@@chrismr368 100%
When I see him "alive" in other TV shows I'm like OMG Lem is alive!! The zoom in on Shane after Vic promises bloody vengeance omfg I couldn't wait til season 6!! And didn't disappoint!!
@@johnboi6916 100%
Ronnie getting arrested was probably the most painful scene to watch in all of television.
Straight gut wrenching
@@MAX-de8fe truth
It's 2nd to Lem getting killed.
Opie getting brutally murdered on S.O.A. was touugh to watch....
@@slurmsmackenzie5729 Nah, at least Lem got to die rather than live the rest of his days in prison. And if I got a grenade dropped there, I'd wanna die too.
Walton Goggins is one of the best actors working today. The shield, hateful 8, Justified, Vice Principals...
and his small role in Sons of Anarchy, which could have been a total joke or treated as only comedy relief, but his performance was brilliant and touching.
Baby Billy!!
@@minbari73It absolutely looked like it was going to be a joke then ended up having two or three of the most powerful scenes in the show.
Definitely
And now as Cooper in Fallout, amazing man.
Walter Goggins is an impressive mind. I had no idea he's so introspective, well spoken and poetic. What a man. What an actor.
From around season 3 of the shield I had the feeling he was a special talent and he’s only continued to prove so ever since but I don’t think he’ll ever top his incredible work in the final three seasons of the shield.
I’m hoping his recent rise in popularity will get this show a little more attention.
Wonderful show. Pity Forest Whittaker wasn’t at this reunion - as his role on this show was his best ever work.
And on Street Kings too, I'd definitely agree.
Neither did Glen Close.
Corrine's voice is so annoying 🙄
@@marcoarreola9058 Well the actress knows that she even said she thought that of herself.
Same with Michael Jace(Julien). If only he hadn't murdered his wife.
The Shield was ahead of its time, and WELL worth the watch!!!! This reunion only proves that when a crew gets together and it clicks, it REALLY CLICKS!!! Thank you for giving us 7 years of pure enjoyment!!!
Another show that would never be made today!
One of the best, realistic, dynamic shows ever been filmed. I watched it 7 times, and always get the same emotions from every damn scene. Gold collection!
Watched it in real time, the greatest viewing experience I've ever had along with the equally miraculous Babylon 5.
The intense personal bond that the cast still shares 20 years later is the true legacy of The Shield...
The Shield is the best cop series ever made….finally a cop show that wasn’t the usually cliche crap. I believe this show was a far more realistic take on cops.
I'm assuming you've never seen Hill Street Blues and Homicide Life On The Street? If not you need to asap lol.
@@kendallrivers1119 Hill Street Blues was the usual cop crap…I remember David Caruso asking a prisoner in a New York/Jersey accent, “Has anyone ever slapped you real..real..hard?” Yeah, I know the show..so..so. Didn’t watch the other one however, so can’t comment on it. Better show hi ever is The Wire, ever watch that?
@@airesdarkvanlore3074 Wrong show because David Caruso was never on it lol. And no Hill Street wasn't the usual cop crap. It changed the look, tone and style of cop shows and tv dramas in general as well as made it possible for The Shield to even exist because Shawn Ryan was inspired by it and purposely took some of the style for The Shield. The Wire is highly overrated so no I don't watch it lol.
@@kendallrivers1119 …..I’ve seen them ….. and what of them ??it’s Apples & Oranges
@@kendallrivers1119 :HSB& H- maybe inspirational but nobody gives a shit
They were inspired by the Streets of San Francisco but so what ?…… DRAGNET ??…. Christ let it go - the SHIELD smashed down the door of TV shows of today ….. not pay tv like HBO -not knocking the Sappranos but not everyone has access to watch those programs back then or now : this show opened the flood gates for Rescue Me , SOA , Breaking Bad , OZARK and countless others
I remember when Glenn Close was announced as the captain I was bummed out because I was looking forward to CCH becoming Captain. But Glenn Close was absolutely remarkable! Probably my favorite performance from her. That scene with her and Chiklis interrogating Antwon was so freaking amazing.
Season 3 was good!
That whole episode was amazing
Facts, I was in same mindstate and Glenn close was just 🤯
Not only that but the scene where she’s saying goodbye to Vic for the last time and Monica just breaks down into to tears when he leaves her house, I fucking felt that. I know what it’s like to try to be strong on the outside that your holding so much emotion and you wait till your alone to finally let it all out. Glenn Close was on point.
@@NightmareKing305 it also felt, for her and for us, like Vic's last chance to climb out of everything he's been doing and start being an effective officer again. She believed in him, and he genuinely responded to that. And then one episode later, here comes Forest Whitaker and takes a wrecking ball to all of that, and you know whatever else happens, Mackey is not coming back around.
Glad CCH gets the props she most definitely deserves from everyone. She's one of the most talented actors on the planet, full stop.
When Goggins mentions the last phone call... shivers.
I just finished the show for the 3rd time. First time in 10+ years. Wow. I knew this was my favorite show....but i forgot how great it was. Now in my 30s i was able to appreciate it on a whole different level. The cinematography, the acting, the cameos, the writing...... personally i put this show above the sopranos. Fucking fantastic.
Same. Just rewatching it now. I think 3rd time. Incredible.
Like a fine wine it's gets better with age imo
yeah best show of all time
Same here, just finished it last week also third time and in my 30s. Damn i wish i could watch it for the first time again, but knowing how it ends and see everything unfolding... it was awesome and very hard to watch again.
This is the best reunion I've ever seen. I have so much respect for all these people. Their work enriched my life journey. Watching The Shield felt like an amazing adventure.
Often imitated, never duplicated. The greatest tv show ever.
Agreed. The apex.
❤❤❤❤ 💯
Sons of Anarchy
Amazing how Shawn Ryan describes watching the Show with his daughter at the end.
The Show is really that good.
The director was fantastic...the zooming in during iconic scenes made it something totally different i hadn't seen in other cop dramas...best tv series of all time...any time a cast member is on another show it automatically grabs my attention...the ENTIRE cast...
They should have had Forest Whittaker in the reunion! Im glad Shanes wife was Not there! Uhhh
"Damn it, Dutch! What other errands have you got running for the DEAAAA?" - Dennis Reynolds
I still can't believe how spot on he got that line.
DA, District Attorney
not DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency)
ok thanks
I really teared at the end when Shawn Ryan started getting emotional. I hope he’s able to find the same success today as he did with the Sheild.
He hasn’t come near it. By far his magnum opus. Really all he’s made since are standard ass cop shows. But he has hinted as a possible return to the world of The Shield.
A masterpiece tht it is a titan
@@urmoneylolThe Chicago Code and Terriers were top tier.
@@urmoneylolbut where would he go with that though? Vic as a P.I. or a vigilante?
@@BooneLuleyo Terriers is one of my favorites! I also really liked The Unit and Timeless and S.W.A.T. has some good stuff too, especially the cast.
the shield and person of interest is two of the most underrated tv shows ever.. every episode theres a thrill
A stunning show which deserved far more accolades than it got. One of the TV greats.
walter goggins deserved an emmy/golden globe for his performance as shane vendrell. he was also great on justified as boyd crowder and deserved to be awarded. he's an amazing and underrated actor the shield was robbed of many best writing/acting awards. the show had huge guest stars that killed it in their roles (forrest whitaker, glenn close, anthony anderson)
Andre3000(?)... If that is his real name 😂 was perfect too
This was awesome. I still think this is one of the best written shows of all time. There were so many incredibly written and acted moments in this show.
What an amazing way for Shawn Ryan to end this get-together by sharing his personal story! Incredible show. Still missing it!
100%
I’m almost crying when I watch this, bringing back all these memories of The Shield. I watch it once a year, since it aired, and I’m still amazed about it. ☺️
the confession was the most amazing cold feeling realest scene in tv history. he was so beloved yet to see and hear him unload all of his crimes made you really see the monster he became
More to the point, he'd spent three years running and lying, and he sits there and his only hope to get out of it is to turn and look directly into the face of everything he's become. And what's better, we had Agent Murray there to be the person who hadn't gone through that with Vic or with the audience. Someone who is hearing all this for the first time, without the context that made us sympathize with and even root for him, to illustrate just how, as you said, monstrous it all was.
@@TheSchaef47 It messed her up so much she quit ICE, changed her name to Andrea and moved to Georgia just in time for the zombie apocalypse.
I will never forget randomly coming across the pilot of the Shield. The whole first season was being shown on TV that night and I stayed up to watch the whole thing. Literally changed my life.
That's how I came across it with Shane and Tavon throwing TF down!!! I been hooked ever since ❤
I’m 22 years old and I wasn’t old enough when the show first aired so I just finished it for the first time after hearing about it last year and it became one of my all time favorites so quick
Man, this video is pretty wholesome. The Shield, Oz, The Sopranos... Man, good times.
I would include the wire in that list
@@ericlucas1 First 2 seasons of Prison Break , Prison Break was really popular at the time.
@@andresl1244 Yeah its easy to forget now, but Prison Break was huge for a couple of years. And that first season bangs really hard, too bad they couldn't keep it up.
It's weird seeing Vic Mackey and David Aceveda laughing and joking together.
You gotta be good friends to pull off a constantly fluctuating animosity like that throughout a whole series.
Its weird to see vick all chubby shaped like a normal old guy lol
And Dutch with Strike Team members, he had constant beefs with Vic and Shane, in one scene Ronnie, Shane and Vic ridiculed him as they were watching him singing Hungry Like A Wolf, Lem is the only member of the Team who was good with Dutch
@@mariozd971 Yeah even after Lem's death, Dutch didn't seem to find it right that Lemansky was denied a police funeral. In the first episode of Season 6, Dutch said with such aggravation "I haven't heard a peep out of downtown. No police funeral. No Press Conference. It's like Lemansky never wore a badge." Hell even Claudette went to his funeral. Dutch I'm sure would have been there too but he was in the process of following a lead that Vic Shane and Ronnie beat him too after the funeral.
To me Lem's most powerful scene was when he was hidden and went to the next trailer just to help a child, blowing his hideout JUST TO DO THE RIGHT THING ! And then his brother killed him ! I love Kenny he's such a great actor, built like a f*** brickhouse and so believable as as a sensitive Joe !
I wish this was 2 hours at least, you can tell the cast loved each other and loved making it
Over 20 years later hands down best show ever thank you Shawn Ryan 🙏🏽 n the whole Shield cast you guys were absolutely phenomenal bringing those characters n world to life blessed to have watched that masterpiece great reunion friends that became family,Mackey will always the villian who I love
I remember my wife got me the box set as a stocking stuffer on the first christmas we shared as bf and gf . And i was so impressed that she would know this was favorite show or at least liked it because our taste in movies and shows are polar opposite( i finally got her into anime). Its only until a couple years ago did i find out she had conspired with my brother and my had said to the shield because he was a huge fan and knew he could take it whenever he wanted . And turns out its currently in a shelf in his house.
Best show ever! Truly my favorite. Just finished watching it from beginning to end for the 7th or 8th time.
The thing i love about Claudette's moment at the elevator is that Dutch snaps her out of it not by being her subordinate, or trying to reason with her or save his job. He just speaks to her as her friend. However everything else works out is tomorrow's problem but right now i need to make sure my friend is okay.
This show and OZ are my favorite shows.. it's hard to find anything better.
The Wire is good
I love Oz too, although it probably messed up my world view a little bit :) Shawn Ryan gave a shout out in another interview for Oz paving the way for The Sopranos (which had to play a part in The Shield getting greenlit).
One of the greatest shows of all-time. It was really cool to see the connection the cast had to one another and they genuinely liked each other. I had no idea about the friend and family dynamics outside of the show either
This was ABSOLUTELY 1 OF THE BEST SHOWS EVER AMAZING SHOW
Best show of all time, bar none. I cannot tell you how much in love with the show that I am. I didn’t find it until season four was started but after watching the very first episode of season one, I immediately binged every episode up until I was caught up.
Thank you, Shawn Ryan for confirming there were promos where FX called the show "Rampart." I thought I might have dreamed that, lol.
This show has made so much of an impact on me that I haven't really seen anything that comes close. This includes Breaking Bad, The Wire, Halt and Catch Fire - I call those shows my 2nd tier favorite shows. The Shield just hit so differently. I understand how the cast can't seem to move on from being part of this impossibly great work of television. This show for some reason really made me know the characters like nothing I've ever watched
At the end of the program, they cry .. And I cry))). This is one of the best series I have ever seen. Thank you from all the viewers to the whole team for this miracle!
Out of all the programs iv watched, this is the very best. I'm still amazed at the amount of people who have not even heard of it even though its 20 years old now.
Iv just watched it again for the first time in 12 years
That was beautiful to watch. Lucky, lucky people. Must have been a great experience.
Series of my childhood, thank u guys for making such a good series.All the best to this people from Serbia.
This show knocked me right out. The grittiest most raw in your face thing I think I had ever seen. From the end of that first episode I knew this was going to be different. Love seeing this, them talking about those days.
This was such a revolutionary show - bring it back!
quite possibly the best underrated show theres ever going to be
thank you all for the best series ever
Outstanding show and still the best series finale of any show I've ever seen
The Shield was one of two shows I have ever watched (I am 50) where nearly every episode's writing was perfect. I remember so many times exclaiming at the end of an episode how they nailed the ended. It made me eager to see the next episode. It also, in a time before streaming, was a show that I knew religiously, the continuity of the characters' stories, everything. For them to make a weekly show where we all devoured each subplot and each relationship was artistic. The only other show that I thought compared to it on acting and writing was the HBO show it competed against for Emmy's and Golden Globes. I for one give the edge to The Shield.
You have to be talking about the Wire right? At the time to preferred the Shield but the Wire holds up better over time. Both were groundbreaking and still revurb to this day but the Shield was a bomb and the Wire was a slow burn. Both in they're approach to story telling and the fan appreciation.
what is the other one?
@@ivanangeli Sopranos.
@@DrtyALGreen Have you seen the 2000 show, The Corner? That was so good and predated The Wire.
Counterpoint: Deus ex machina "Radiohead"
This is such an amazing reunion. Hands down one of the best TV shows of all time. Embedded in my top 10 forever. The Shield, NYPD Blue, and Homicide: Life on The Street were the finest police dramas of all time. Thanks for the upload!
Don't forget Hill Street Blues. In The Heat Of The Night was Damn good too. I can't stand most cop shows because they're too generic with cookie cutter characters and storylines but these shows were special.
They all aged well
Walt Goggins hair seems to have grown back…🤔🤔.
I’m guessing hair plugs?
@@danielc7131 He had his hair done between season 6 and 7!
Not Julian 😬😬😬😬
@@danielc7131 my thoughts exactly I’m rewatching now and Shane’s hair was wearing thin back then
Not exactly. Vic hasn't missed a meal.
The Shield is to this day THE BEST cop show ever!! LOVE IT!❤️🔥
You said it. And i remember the first episode, I fell in love with it. It seems like most other shows you have to watch 4-5 episodes just to figure out who’s who. But in The Shield, everyone just fell in place and everything just meshed right away in the pilot. Amazing show.
Man I loved this show. Immensely. Broke my heart when Shane dropped that grenade in on Lem. That was the absolute hardest scene to watch and digest. Poor Lem was so trusting, scared and hurt in that scene and then Shane just plopped it in there.
Thank you from Italy guys. I loved this series, best of all times
This show is flipping AMAZING currently rewatching it now on prime now this is what you call a 5 ⭐️ series.
Thanks for sharing. This is one of my favorite shows of all time.
I love these guys. I'm watching it again (#3) on Prime.
Greatest crime drama of all time, I’ll forever miss it but am so glad it’s a thing. cheers
I'm going through the seasons now. This was awesome. Very entertaining and some very tender moments. Bless this cast.
Même le producteur de cette série m'a fait pleurer, c'est de loin la meilleure séries dramatiquo-policière de tous les temps... Comment décrire ce qu'ils nous ont apporté pendant sept ans de notre vie, c'est impossible. Merci à vous !
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Anthony Anderson gave me nightmares. Dude stepped up his acting and the intro was always so sick how they would play a solid 5-10 mins and then after something crazy happened…” JUST ANOTHER DAYYYYYYY”
I loved the intro after the crazy stuff too! In another interview Shawn Ryan said they had fifteen thousand dollars to make an intro for the pilot and he decided to try and do a cheap one in-house so he could use the money for something else. So he asked the editor for some simple text but moving kind of jangly on the screen. He went to dinner and by the time he came back, the editor had put together the intro graphic using a font called Crack House.
I could not ❤this enough!! When you create brilliance.... you Love all those that helped create it!!!
Amazing. I just started watching it a few weeks ago banging out episodes... Love the show!
If this is your first time…you’re lucky.
I wish I can feel the this thrill again
Fantastic watch for Shield fans, thankyou! The first TV series to really hit me hard and sucked me in, my first binge watch on DVD from memory, and something I will do again, but to be honest I'm a little scared to go through all that again!! My first TV rollercoaster ride.
The stand out was Walter Goggins, after the shoe, he was on every show and movie.
Probably the best show I’ve ever seen. I keep wanting to rewatch but it’s so bloody emotionally draining when everything starts falling apart (which is a good thing as what other show does that as well as The Shield).
Yeah I just re-watched it over the past month. Still my favorite show.
I like watching things like this for a show that was with you for so long, it really feels like me and old friends reuniting.
The Shield and The Wire are hands down 1 & 1A of best TV shows ever. From the 1st episodes to the last episodes they all tied together.
The Sopranos needs to factor in somewhere
Just now watching THE SHIELD in 2022.. best show I've ever seen!! Season 8 please
Hearing Michael Chickliss talk about his favorite moment was great. He looks like Vic’s more sensitive hippy brother in this, it’s awesome!
Just found this thanks for uploading it. Makes me want to watch the whole series again.
My all time favorite show. I love this reunion.
This is my FAVOURITE TV series of all time and it never got the love it deserved. At the time a lot of folks dismissed it because 'The Wire' was so popular, so hopefully now it will get its due.
Best show ever
Watched it during a very special time of my life. It really marked me. Love it. Lemonhead the best !
Pala 3° vez estou assistindo a série inteira... E a emoção é a mesma como se não houvesse assistido nenhuma. Tenho todos DVDs guardados relíquias !!!
Vocês são simplesmente os melhores reunidos na melhor série do mundo... De todos os tempos.
❤🔥💀👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🇧🇷
such a great show, you guys gel so well together no wonder you make such a great show. thank you for the great entertainment, its the most underrated show ever
The Shield was a massive part of my life for 7 years and a pretty big part ever since.
When I get asked about Shield vs Sopranos I give this personal anecdote.
Back in Autumn 2009 my wife was pregnant with our first child. I was nervous. And in order to have something that I could judge according to time and let the pregnancy go quicker, I decided in about October 2009 to watch all the Sopranos and all Shield. Alternately. Sopranos one day. Shield the next.
That lasted until about April.
I always remember the difference.
When I'd finished watching an episode of The Shield, I was always blown away, and whilst I loved Sopranos, I always felt like I wanted to watch Sopranos just so I could get to the next episode of The Shield.
When I'd finished watching a Sopranos episode I was always on a high knowing The Shield was next.
Sopranos I LOVED to watch.
Shield I HAD to watch.
In my opinion I prefer the sopranos because I found it more consistent but the shield at its best was far better than the sopranos at its best and the ending was much much better probably my favourite ending to a tv show ever.
I love both shows and first watched them in real time, but it got harder for me to watch The Sopranos the more we got to know the characters. There was some of that for The Shield too, but there was also some hope there that I didn't see on The Sopranos. I recently re-watched both of them and appreciated The Sopranos alot more now that I could more objectively view the characters. But The Shield still hit me so hard and reminded me of how much of an impact it had made on my life.
They dont make shows like this anymore..They should bring it back 👍
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Whenever the best dramas are mentioned - Sopranos, Breaking Bad, 24 etc , The Shield will always be at the top. It is unmatched. There had never been anything like it and there has not been anything remotely like it since
Down right one of the best TV series ever made. Amazing writing and plots with a great, amazing crew of actors.
I was with some friends an one of them said hey you ever seen the shield, I was like I heard of it but never seen it, saw the pilot an was hooked. My friend only had 6 seasons the final season had just come on dvd, i saw the last season at fye an surprised my friends with it 😂an we built a crazy friendship because of this show lol im forever grateful for that
Cant believe I never head or seen this reunion before now. The Shield is my favorite show and Ryan's story at the end is the perfect ending for this.
I watched The Shield when it first aired and, coincidentally, I am currently lockdown-binge-rewatching it.
The Shield was the best show ever and I’m not a TV watcher. All of these actors were phenomenal and they really had something special. I have the entire series on DVD.
The most underrated show ever. Shame that Michael Jace did what he did, he could been with them or at least talked about because he had the most interesting arc on the show. Also Forest Whitaker, the man really elevated the level of acting. Love The Shield forever.
That’s true, Michael Jace really fucked up doing his wife like that which makes him a piece of shit and he most definitely deserves to be where he is now for the next 35 years but admittedly he was really good in the shield despite what people say.
Agreed with everything you said except for the first sentence. The Shield is one of the most revered shows ever made, it is literally the antithesis of underrated. It is beloved, and its influence on the medium isn't lost on anyone lol
@@Jaydot34. what happened? What did he do, are you referring to his show character or real life??
@@demsux25 shot his wife to death
@@demsux25 He shot his wife.
Working in Angel, another of my favorite shows from my teen years, what a surprise, theres coherence in everything.
And thank goodness the Angel showrunners let Shawn Ryan get out of his contract early so he could be the showrunner for The Shield.
Thank you for this upload! It was awesome!
Fantastic show! There were so many episodes that were gut wrenching, but I always had to come back for more.
This is an absolute 'murderers row' of acting talent; there isn't a weak link here at all.
Thank you Shawn and thank you to this incredible cast for this wonderful, phenomenal, show they all worked to put together! I’ve watched the show 3 times all the way through - when it aired was the first time, and I just watched it through recently for the first time in nearly a decade. Man does this show hit differently as you watch it at different points in your life.
The emotional roller coaster was already a hard hitter when I watched it for the first time in my teens, but after my third time in my 30s as a street cop of 11 years, with a wife and baby boy? Man did Shane’s ending arc hit with so much more of an emotional gut punch. Incredible writing, incredible show. Stupidly underrated, and I’d throw it against any of the Goliath’s like Sopranos and Breaking Bad
This was phenomenal to watch thanks for uploading it. I just finished watching the show and it sucks that it’s over but the ending was insane.
Considering the network didn’t even want him at first it’s amazing how well Walton has done for himself
This still to this day is my fav show of all time, and this shit was a joy to watch 🙏🏼
I haven’t watched tv for 10 years. My brother and niece just passed away in December and it absolutely has destroyed me. I try to take my mind off of it so I asked my sister for her Hulu password so I could watch something. Mind you I’ve always been wanting to watch the shield because I used to watch clips of it on TH-cam just like sopranos and the wire. So I’m on S4 E9 and it’s the best show I have ever watched. I’ve already been watching clips farther up to see what happens I couldn’t help myself. I’ve seen what happens to Vic and Shane and Lem. I can understand know how Vic feels losing everything. I know what that feels like. I can feel his pain. I wish I could’ve died with my brother and niece because I’m already dead. I go to sleep every night wishing I don’t wake up anymore. I’m so lost and broken. I can’t believe this happened. This can’t be real. I’ve lost myself in this show and it has helped me. Thank you for helping me ❤️