I've had some Bruichladdich and wasn't that impressed… it tasted closer to a blend than a single malt.

We fight…with jazz!

Harry Motherfucking Lennix, but only if he plays Obama like Aeron in Titus.

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The Art Institute, stuffed pizza, and the last fucking real baseball stadium in the country; the jazz clubs, the lakefront, and some badass Catholic churches. Also, crime.

You're entitled to shit. You're entitled to Tell Me What You Know.

Deep breaths and something at least 90 proof over ice. Don't swim for at least an hour.

One look at Shawn Ryan is pretty much all you need to explain Vic's attractiveness.

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"The severed arm was a lighter moment"—The Shield is about the only show where that sentence is true.  (I've warned people, "yeah, those two guys set on fire?  Not the worst thing that episode.")

Your point earlier (and it's a very Socratic point) that nothing is ever cancelled out on The Shield really resonates here.  Shane in the hospital doesn't forgive Shane in the bedroom, or Shane pissing on a suspect, or. . .we know. It's why this show is so emotionally devastating, because it's absolutely without mercy…

In these episodes, you can see the contrast between Claudette and Dutch.  Claudette is a more classical detective, going for evidence rather than Dutch's psychological insight.  Dutch reminds me, especially here, of the rule that all therapists need to be in therapy themselves, because therapists need to know what…

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The Shield’s focus on plot (I mean, holy shit, the first three episodes take place on three successive days) and its unified style allow for tonal shifts that no other show could get away with.  There aren’t comic/dramatic/character/elegiac episodes or scenes here, only what people do and us observing them.  So we can…

This season pretty much defines "going off the rails."  That said, and trying not to be spoilery, it goes off the rails in an incredibly interesting way.  Like it goes off the rails,  lands on some other rails, goes off those rails, etc.  You will not be bored.

Any information on the cost of finding and capturing a naked man in a T-shirt?

wallflower Is Listening To. . .

@avclub-41e23e24ee2670c4128cd7e5e5ee42ab:disqus :  that's really well said, especially when you consider

Hey Bruce!  Wanna top me off here?