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Originally Posted by Huffmeister
Season 1 & 2 were great.
Season 3 was a bit boring.
Season 4 picked up a bit with the addition of Glenn Close.
Season 5 was excellent, some really great scenes with Forrest Whitaker.
Season 6 was a bit boring.
Season 7 was phenomenal as the shit really starts hitting the fan.
I don't know that it's as good as BB, but they're really two completely different shows. The Shield is more of a procedural police drama with a pretty big ensemble cast and Breaking Bad is very much focused on a handful of characters. However, the one thing they both have in common is that they definitely like to blur the line between "good guys" and "bad guys".
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For me The Shield jumped the shark late in the series when Vic Mackey was about to be exposed and fired, but he just happened to make a traffic stop, and the car he stopped just happened to have all of this damning evidence in the trunk that he could use to blackmail the people who were going to fire him.
It was the quintessential deus ex machina, and it really pissed me off. However, on the whole The Shield was awesome.