"... everything I needed to know about the decline of America I witnessed in a binge viewing of The Shield... urban decay... economic corruption... cultural dissolution... the diseased dysfunction of identity politics feeding off the carcass of an ignorant, indolent citizenry... government agencies incapable of managing, for a variety of reasons, many self imposed, the wave of shit washing over them and often left with nothing to do but feebly add their lot of garbage to the filthy stream... yeah, it's all there... almost as if the point of the show was to say the end is coming and there ain't a damn thing you can do about it... entertaining television, though..."
