Reminder of the details for those of you who have a hazy memory of the finale. ICE looked at Vic Mackey's resume including many charges, complaints and allegations of excessive force, and that he was a prime suspect in multiple murder investigations, and said "Yes please! Have full immunity!"
Good thing nothing like that would ever happen in real life.
Vic's ending never really sat well with me. He didn't face a reckoning for his actions. He just got benched. Then he hears sirens, gets up, goes to the window, and wishes he was back on the streets. Everyone else got a more satisfying ending.
I'm not sure if Vic should have went out in a blaze of glory, but he should have been taken down by a gang or cartel or something. Or the bikers. I felt like he got an easy way out and it shouldn't have been that way.
Shane's ending was just wild.
Such a great show otherwise. And semi-spawned Sons of Anarchy (SoA creator Kurt Sutter was a staff writer on The Shield; the two shows are not formally connected. However, Mayans MC is connected to Sons and the Mayans featured in The Shield.
Vic wanted a blaze of glory. What he got was purgatory. Which for him, was hell.