I loved the Shield finale as well.
A bunch of people expected and wanted Vic sentenced to prison.
I think Vic's "sentence" was pretty horrible.
He is either stuck at that desk forever having his evil deeds exposed.
Or, he is sentenced to jump through the hoops of fire forever, this time alone without friends, or his badge.
Ronnie might get out of Jail someday.
Yep. In fact, the way the ICE lady described his job duties, complete with "lights out" instructions made it pretty clear that he did end up in a sort of prison.
If I had to pick a single best finale ever it would be the Shield. The only one to come close is/was Newhart but obviously that's a completely different kind of program.