It seems appropriate for me to bump this thread because, in a binge, I just finished The Shield Season 1.
In the thread Your Top 10 TV Shows, I didn’t deserve to post. What would Rip Van Winkle, who watched TV as a school boy submit? Route 66, Alfred Hitchcock Presents ? Or a few later gems like Banacek ?
But in recent few years I’ve binged, and caught up with some of the more recommended series; so I used that thread for a different purpose. I found several that liked the same series I liked, but none came anywhere as close as Zeldar’s list:
(I’ll take the liberty of bold-facing and underlining the choices I agree with.
I like all these I’ve seen, though had never heard of Shield nor Terriers. (I wanted only several episodes of Deadwood, does it get better? I think I liked Boardwalk Empire more than Deadwood, though still not enough to keep watching.)
Seeing Zeldar’s list, and how close his taste was to mine (but where’s True Detective?) my mission was clear: Watch Shield or Terriers. I picked the former, binged on an entire season in just a few days and …
Wow! I prefer The Wire, I think, because the characters are much more empathetic, but even so, The Shield is …
Wow!