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“The Shield”: We Missed It?

Listen, we never started watching The Shield. We wanted to. We saw all those advertisements with Michael Chiklis’ shiny baldhead, badass attitude, and badcop rasp. Scanner Bryan told us how good it was. The New York Times is still telling us how good it is. And, don’t even get us started on our love for and dedication to Glenn Close (Cruella De Vil, anyone?).

We meant to tune in. It was on our to-do list. But we just never quite got to it. Now, The Shield has come and gone and we’re left our regrets and the finale info. So we’ve come to share the finale tidings with all of you.

Finale Spoilers after the jump:

Now the Election Belongs to "SNL"

Now that the debates are over and the pundits have had their say, it's time to turn our political process over to the comedians. Tonight we've got possibly all the candidates sharpening their talk-show one-liners, but it's Amy Poehler, Seth Meyers and the rest of the gang at Saturday Night Live who'll be determining what's funny from here on out.

To keep you up to date, here's the latest news from over at 30 Rock:

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Lindy Parker has worked as a ghostwriter, editor, dance instructor and a purveyor of dreams, one beer at a time. She loves Charles Dickens and Gabriel Garcia Marquez and also, straight-to-video releases with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. It's possible she reads more teen fiction than she should. She hails from Los Angeles, her hometown and soul mate, but she lives in Brooklyn, the fling she'll never forget.

Olivia Purnell left Ohio for sunny Los Angeles; then found that she couldn’t ignore New York City’s call, and brought herself to Brooklyn where she has worked with GenArt, BlackBook, the School of American Ballet, and finished an M.A. in Creative Writing from N.Y.U. She loves one-liners with sting and hates the stench of the subway in the summer. That said, she can’t get enough of either.

Jake Kalish is a freelance journalist and humorist whose work has appeared in Details, Maxim, Stuff, New York Press, Spin, Blender, Men's Fitness, Poets and Writers, and Playboy, among other publications. He is also the author of Santa vs. Satan: The Official Compendium of Imaginary Fights.

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Ben Kallen is an entertainment, health and humor writer who's been lectured to by Sidney Poitier, argued with by Lea Thompson and smiled at by Jennifer Connelly. He's the coauthor of The No S Diet and author of The Year in Weird, along with hundreds of magazine articles. He lives near the beach in Los Angeles, just like the gang from Three's Company.

Nicole Ankowski has lived in Ohio, Oakland, and on the high plains of South Dakota, but is now proud to call Brooklyn home. She wrote for alternative weekly papers in the first two states, and tried to learn Lakota in the last. (The vowels can be tricky.) She just earned her MFA in Creative Writing and has been published in Beeswax literary journal. She is unable to resist good writing or bad TV.

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