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The Shield: Season 4
Most of the brilliant fourth season is focused on the interplay of Vic with the two single-season 'heavyweights', Glenn Close as Captain Monica Rawling and Anthony Anderson as local kingpin Antwon Mitchell.
Cynthia Fuchs
22 Jan 2006
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The Shield
Vic is the man in every way: mean, impulsive, voluble, in love with his authority but resentful too, resisting his own responsibility.
Cynthia Fuchs
20 Mar 2005
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The Shield: Season 3
The Shield's moral center perpetually shifts, as the Team members struggle to maintain their sense of balance, caught between the outright villains and their own dishonesty.
Cynthia Fuchs
23 Feb 2005
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The Shield
The Shield remains, shot for shot, TV's most compelling hour.
Cynthia Fuchs
08 Mar 2004
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The Shield
The success of 'The Shield' has doubtless upped the ante in regard to what networks will allow -- and resort to -- in order to gain ratings.
Cary O'Dell
06 May 2002
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The Shield
As played by new Emmy winner Michael Chiklis, Vic Mackey is casually racist and homicidal, by turns charismatic and appalling.
Cynthia Fuchs
06 Jan 2002
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