4. THE SHIELD (FX)
One of the rare pleasures of series television is the show that gets better as it goes along, with each new season allowing its characters to grow more complex and not fixed in mannerisms and fond catchphrases. So it turned out with The Shield, in which the rot in Vic Mackey's soul spread until, by this final season, it seemed to have reached his head: Michael Chiklis enacted the anguished rage of a trapped madman. Even more evolved was Walton Goggins' Shane, who began The Shield a macho hotdogger and ended it a desperately loving husband and father resigned to his doomed fate.
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