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...list of crimes that starts with murder and continues the length of your arm. The kingpin offers him a drink to take off the "edge." Mackey refuses. "The edge is where we live," he says. "People try to convince themselves otherwise. It's just an exercise in self-deception...
...show's themes and Chiklis' brooding, minotaur-like physicality invite comparison with that Urtext of male antiheroes, The Sopranos. But our relationship with Mackey is more complicated--and self-implicating--than ours was with Tony Soprano. Tony was roguish and funny; we even rooted for him against other Mob bosses. But we had more distance from him because he was a criminal and a sociopath, beyond redemption and beyond our experience...
Shield fans have long debated what kind of end Mackey deserves. I won't characterize the finale, except to say it proves Mackey is not so different from the people he disparages to the drug boss. Yes, he lives on the edge and embraces it. But for him, self-deception is not just an exercise; it's an Olympic sport. Fittingly and terribly, The Shield carries him across the finish line...
...Berry has been his usual self, locking down wide receivers with such efficiency that opponents rarely bother to throw in his direction anymore. Somehow he’s managed three interceptions anyway...
...While the struggle between art and the structures in place to sell it is far from nascent, it is important to note that tinyvices seems not so much above it as beyond it. Though Barber rightly identifies the advantages of being outside of the established systems, he is not self-important or righteous enough to find them below him.Over the past two years, TV (as tinyvices is abbreviated) has had a baker’s dozen of shows in real-life galleries located in slightly fewer cities. What’s perhaps most surprising is that the shows, just...