Main reason to watch The Shield: Chiklis, hands down

Finished Season 6 of "The Shield" and it's a pretty good concluding episode - and by no means is everything concluded. Shane makes a desperate attempt to made amends with Mackey/Chiklis by turning against the Armenian mobsters he's befriended, once he learns they will kill the families of police officers who'd crossed them in the past (i.e., Mackey) - and Shane tries to protect Mackey's wife and children. Inexplicably, he doesn't explain to them what he's doing, but he locks them in a trailer - this does protect them, but they think they've been kidnapped, so you know that (in Season 7) Shane will pay a price for this. Mackey, meanwhile, discovers that the Mexican mobsters have a whole cache of documents that they can use to blackmail everyone in power in LA; this discovery is clearly enough to get him to turn around the members of the review board and keep his job. I'm personally totally confused about the Armenian mafia and the role it plays or will play in this series - it's enough keeping straight the crossed loyalties of the Mexican, Salvadoran, and black gangs. Hope it simplifies in the next season. Interestingly, we're even developing a romantic subplot as Dutch, the very likable detective, realizes he's way out of his league with the beautiful Tina - he's humiliated after he sees her having sex with Hiatt - and he falls into the arms of the sergeant whose name I don't know, single mom and nice person. Lots of action, always very smart and sharp, throughout the whole season - but the main reason to watch it is Chiklis, hands down.