Captain Aceveda is finally leaving The Barn and Vic Mackey should over the moon, given the two men's acrimonious history, but Vic's a bit distracted with the collapse of his marriage and the self-destruction of his beloved Strike Team. Honestly, given the scant respect he gave his marriage vows, it's likely the latter hurts him more than the former.
Without his team, Vic's unmotivated and unfocused, barely paying attention to the assignment he's been given. But the arrival of a new Captain with an aggressive new approach to policing presents him with an opportunity to get out of this rut. But only if he can prove himself to her, and do so while keeping his nose clean. For a man whose approach to policing has always been shall, we say, very flexible, this is a challenging time. And it's not made any easier by the rise of an ambitious new gang boss with big plans of his own ...
Season four of The Shield continues the good work of the three previous series. The cast remains strong (and is certainly not hurt by the addition of Glenn Close as the new Captain) and the writing is solid. The characters go through a lot of turmoil here as they try to carve out new roles and places for themselves, and on the whole the progression feels natural and reasonable in the circumstances. It's not necessarily "realistic", but it does have a sense of internal consistency and verisimilitude.
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