Dutch’s relationship with his hottie protégé, Tina, (played by the fabulous and underused Colombian actress, Paula Garces) gets complicated as he misinterprets her desire to learn from his expertise as romantic interest (though truthfully, I can’t say as I blame him, she’s definitely sending out mixes signals). To add to his bad night he gets a visit from a federal agent telling him to back off from a line of inquiry into an informant the agent is working.
They left us with Claudette asking Vic to train his replacement, reminding him that he only had one month left before his “retirement.” All in all, it was an episode that never really got going, and that is not what we’ve come to expect from this action-laced series. They set the bar pretty high with the fast pace of the first two episodes, only confirming my Blogcritics colleagues’ perception that they jumped the gun with the Kavanaugh storyline, wrapping it up too neatly, too quickly. Though I hated the character and said last week I was happy to see him go, I have to admit I was missing him tonight. Having a worthy adversary for Mackey made for great tension. But the coming attractions look promising, what with Mackey’s Bruce Springsteen look-alike replacement shaking things up at the barn. One can only hope.
Article comments
1 - Mat Brewster
Shane won't confess until late in the season. I suspect they'll be using that tension for a long time coming.
I liked seeing Ron doing something other than playing side kick to Vic. It would be interesting to see him leave the strike team and become a really great cop. Won't happen though.
Next week does look interesting.
2 - El Bicho
I see no reason to believe that Shane will have to confess. Why should he? Last night was the time to do it. No point now. I am so tired of the writers setting up great conflicts and then dropping them.
I have the same attitude to this show that I do The Sopranos: if it wasn't the final season and I hadn't invested so much time in it, I would just give up because I know I wouldn't be missing much.
"he misinterprets her desire to learn from his expertise as romantic interest"
but did he? he never got an answer from her as to whether she wanted it to be a date because the Fed interrupted them.
I have always liked Ronnie and this show confirms what a good character he is. The writers have wasted him.
3 - Mat Brewster
They're actually talking about adding yet another season to the Shield. So this wouldn't be the final one. I heard it on Wikipedia, so it must be true.
4 - Victor Lana
Look, Vic killed a cop in the first episode and I think that is the thing that will really be there with Shane. It's going to be huge when Vic finds out, but he's got his own demons.
Strangely enough, Kavanuagh gave Vic a sort of mirror image and that was very combustible stuff. That's why we miss him. I'd think there's no place for Vic Mackey to go but down, unless there's one more season. Like Tony Soprano, he might have more lives in him than even we imagined.
5 - Haraldo9
I agree that they wrapped up the Kavanaugh storyline too quickly and neatly.
"I'm at peace now, are you?"
It kind of felt like a soap-opera style killing of his character. The Kavanaugh that Forrest Whitaker and the writers created deserved a better end. He was definitely the most complex, interesting, and fun to watch character in all 6 seasons (except of course our shiny-headed protagonist, brother of Detective Scrotes.)
6 - Al Barger
This episode never really got going? Vic's hunting, torture and execution of Guardo a little slow going for you? Whaddya want, a rubber biscuit?
AN ALTERNATE VIEWPOINT
7 - El Bicho
"he misinterprets her desire to learn from his expertise as romantic interest"
turns out it was according to the finale.
8 - pablo flores
im a new watcher, and ive never seen season6 . im waiting for it to come out on dvd. i just spent 3 weeks watching the first 5 seasons and i need some closure.