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Kristofenpheiffer posted:Season 1 premiered in '99. Youtube didn't exist until 2005. I don't think anyone had camera phones for several more years either. It's a bit unbelievable that it still wouldn't get traced back to him by the license plate or whatever, but that would just go back to Christopher, and who knows if the car was even registered to him. The Rodney King thing happened in 1991 and was all over the news worldwide. Stuff like youtube today means everything is being filmed and uploaded all the time, but even back in the 90s pulling something like Tony did with the car was taking a massive risk - he just needed one guy with a camera (people used to walk around with those!) or a video camera to film him and he'd be in jail. Even though the first episode explicitly has Tony talk about the glory days of the Mafia being behind them, it still seemed to want to incorporate some of the stylistic imagery of stuff like Goodfellas and Casino where guys were able to just put a savage beating on somebody in the street with impunity.
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pentyne posted:The Shield ended on a similar note Vic Mackie admitted to all his crimes to get immunity, and literally everyone was horrified at what he had done, even other semi corrupt cops who took a taste here and there That's still one of the most amazing scenes I think I've ever seen in television. The way the ICE Agent goes from seeming bemused at whatever "little" infractions she's about to hear, and by the end of it she's just going 
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