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Not unpopular but reminded by tetra's pic that The Shield is one of the best cop shows of all time

 

One of my favorite people here gets mad when I say it, but The Shield is better than The Wire.

 

Agree

 

I think the "message" or takeaway is much more correct too

 

It is a much more accurate depiction of police overall. Mackey and his men are evil, but what makes them able to function is the willingness of people like Julien or Aceveda to look the other way or even use them when it suits their purpose. The cops in the Wire are depicted as worn down and corrupted by the system, but Mackey is doing it because he can.

 

Brooklyn 9 9 only good cop show

 

It's funny too because as far as I can tell the guy who created The Shield is a big grey thumb of a man with no discernable politics except thinking cops and the military are cool. Whereas Simon's genuine attempt at some kind of at least descriptive diagnosis of 'the problem' with 'the system' falls so relatively flat.

 

watch justified once

 

Did it justify the viewing?

 

The wire > justified > the shield (but I haven’t finished the shield so)

 

Shield better than Justified too Justified kicks ass tho

 

If Absolutepunk still existed, it would blow peoples’ minds at how much “Justified”’s early seasons were hated and called “slow.”

 

s2 and s3 are perfect television

 

People dunked on regularly. But I think came around to it in the end.

 

Feel like this take is ignoring the fact that the "reboot" is made by the same guy as the original, Joel Hodgson.

 

okay but they still weren't making jokes about Rothko and Eno so

 

I just feel like they're trying to make a distinction between the two eras as if they're being made by two different groups of people when it's the same guy just being influenced by different things as he gets older.

 

They are being made by two different groups of people. The writers rooms are totally different.

 

Gatekeeping MST3K is for maroons. I’m not a huge fan of the new stuff or Jonah Ray, but it doesn’t bother me that it’s out there continuing, especially when Rifftrax still exists if you want some of the OGs.

 

I'm not arguing that there aren't different people involved from then to now, but the core has always been Joel, who created the show, starred in the original seasons, and is still the producer of the recent seasons and has been the one spearheading the revival. So he is the one ultimately approving decisions.

 

My opinion is that none of it is funny.