The Shield: Family Meeting (2008)
Season 7, Episode 13
10/10
Corruption's Destination
10 August 2023
Warning: Spoilers
How do you end a series about a corrupt group of cops in the most perfect way possible? As many in these reviews would say, you reap what you sow. We all had a feeling they wouldn't really get away with everything they did over the years, and the creator made the wise choice and proved all of us right. Even after he gets his immunity, Vic instead ends up getting a fate worse than death. He has to confess to every crime he's committed, every heinous act, and tell them that all those who investigated him, Terry Crowley, Aceveda, Kavanaugh, the decoy force, they were all right. He loses literally everything, the respect of his colleagues, time with his family, every last friend he ever had, even his absolute freedom, finally getting the consequences he deserves for his actions, and it's implied he only ends up making the consequences worse in the end because he just can't help himself. And in an even bigger touch of irony, everyone else gets a happy ending, his family getting a new life away from him, his colleagues keeping their jobs and bringing true justice to the streets, and a real crackdown on all the other dirty cops. They seriously spent pretty much every episode since halfway through season 4 building up to this ending, and boy did they absolutely deliver. I'm so glad I stuck through with this series to the end, because every time you think it even slightly stagnates, it finds ways to get better over all.
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