Blog Posts about The Shield

Mr. Skin’s DVD Pick of the Week

The Shield: The Complete Series
STUDIO: Sony
NUDE: Paula Garcés (body double—breasts, butt), Michele Hicks (breasts), Aisha Hinds (breasts, butt), Natalie Amenula (butt), Donielle Artese (butt), Rina Fernandez (breasts, butt), Jenya Lano (breasts, butt), Marguerite MacIntyre (breasts), Nicki Micheaux (breasts, butt), Ellis Perry (butt), Susan Santiago (breasts, butt), Tamlyn Tomita (breasts, butt), Gina Torres (butt)
Bad cops make good TV. That’s certainly the case in the excellent F/X series The Shield. It stars Michael Chiklis, who has come a long way from playing John Belushi in Wired (1989) and portraying a cop on the hit TV drama The Commish. He plays the crooked detective who leads a team of criminal peace officers who are more interested in getting a piece of the pie, whether that’s money or honey. And they get a lot of both. Thanks to the series being produced on a cable network, there’s also ample nudity, though it’s usually hard to see with the fast edits. Still, the mean streets of Los Angeles are filled with heavenly angels who can’t wait to spread their wings for the bad boys of the LAPD.

Nip/Tuck premiered on cable's FX network on this date in 2003.

After several years of struggling, the cable network FX scored a hit with Howard Stern's sexy Baywatch parody Son of the Beach in 2000 (featuring Jaime Bergman and Leila Arcieri), and then nailed down a TV classic with the savage (but skin-friendly) cop show The Shield two years later.

Empowered by those daring, censor-defying series, FX went even further out on a limb—and got even more actresses out of their clothes—with the debut of its plastic-surgery-themed drama Nip/Tuck. Controversy greeted the show from its first episode, which seemed to only make Nip/Tuck get more provocative.

For a blast of how this show has dared to bare, join us after the (pun intended) cut.