- 4/11/13 /
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Vulture Asks: What TV Episodes Haunt You?
Last night's Southland joins the pantheon of Shocking-Amazing-Violent episodes that haunt us to this day.
The Shield
- 1/6/13 /
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Justified’s Walton Goggins Defends the South’s Good Name, In Bad-Guy Roles
“I would never have gotten the jobs I did without the advent of cable television, which brought back the kinds of raw, authentic leading actors you had in the seventies.”
- 9/4/12 /
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Three Shows to Watch While Waiting for More Breaking Bad
How to scratch that same antihero itch.
- 5/17/12 /
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Five Top Showrunners Recount the Agony of Waiting for a Pilot Pickup
Creators of Lost, The Shield, Gossip Girl, and more tell tales of the pain of waiting for that network thumbs-up and how it feels to get it ... or not.
- 3/15/12 /
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The Greatest TV Drama of the Past 25 Years, Round Two: The Sopranos vs. The Shield
Two tonally different series, united in excellence.
- 3/7/12 /
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The Greatest TV Drama of the Past 25 Years, Round One: The Shield vs. NYPD Blue
Does one go with the pioneer, or the one who built on his forefather's groundbreaking work?
- 3/5/12 /
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What’s the Best TV Drama of the Last 25 Years?
From Buffy to the Sopranos, sixteen dramas will vie for the title.
- 10/24/11 /
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How Other Homeland Actors Seem to Be Playing Variations on Their Old Characters
It's more than just Carie having traces of Angela Chase; the show also owes a little something to 'Life' and 'Dead Like Me.'
- 2/14/11 /
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The Chicago Code Creator Shawn Ryan on the Age of the TV Antihero and What Went Wrong With Terriers
"Dark antiheroism is not shocking anymore ... I think the bar is set a little higher now."
- 10/27/10 /
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Why Did Shawn Ryan Rename His Cop Show?
"Adding 'Chicago' to anything is always a good idea."
- 10/20/10 /
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Shield Creator Shawn Ryan Hired to Adapt Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse
It might be set during the Vietnam War. Or not!
- 10/12/10 /
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Michael Chiklis on No Ordinary Family and the Possibility of a The Shield Movie
"On 'The Shield,' I was kicking in doors and jumping on gangbangers ... It can really wreak havoc on your lower back."
- 5/14/10 /
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Lost Finale Advice From Those Who Know: The Writers Behind the Good-byes of The X-Files, The Shield, The O.C., and St. Elsewhere
The tales behind their own classic wrap-ups, and some words of advice and caution.
- 3/16/10 /
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Justified’s Walton Goggins on His Remarkable Teeth and Doubling Down With FX As a Likable Villain
In his new show, 'The Shield' vet plays "the smartest man in the room," albeit one who's a neo-Nazi.
- 2/29/08 /
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Judd Apatow's Inability to Stop Producing Movies Is Becoming Troubling
- 7/16/07 /
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Sting Becoming More of an (Expletive) by the Minute
- 6/14/07 /
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Johnny Depp Bemused by Bizarre Fan Homage
- 6/6/07 /
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‘The Shield': Our Vic Mackey Doomsday Clock
- 5/30/07 /
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‘The Shield’ Doomsday Clock: Is This the End of Mackey?
- 5/23/07 /
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