Jordan Harper
@jordanharper
Edgar-and-steel-dagger-winning author of SHE RIDES SHOTGUN, EVERYBODY KNOWS, THE LAST KING OF CALIFORNIA and LOVE AND OTHER WOUNDS. A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE: "The Noir Novel of Our Times" -- The New York Times
My heart is always with the ones who know they’re no good. Shane becomes my favorite character in TV in this scene.
Megan and her novel THE NEED gets the lede in the Times article about cannibalism chic: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/b...
One of the few real missteps in The Shield was bringing in this ding-dong straight from network cop show central casting
I assume when this is shown in a theater the audience breaks out laughing at this point
There’s better food, but there is no restaurant I have more good will for in the world
Not only one of the greatest TV performances, but a perfect understanding of what a Big Bad in the moral universe of The Shield needed to be.
The whole aesthetic of The Shield pretty much prevents Good Shots™️ but every once in a while they get off a corker.
You just know it was Kurt Sutter’s pitch to do the scene where Shane is Heroically Racist
I bought a swinger’s classified ad magazine from the (I think) 70s at Analog Outlaw and it was such a good purchase
