Kurt Sutter

Over the course of the show, Sutter was responsible for some of the most hilariously depraved episodes - often involving hyper-violent criminals or strange sexual fetishes - that helped propel the series away from being just another cop show. Instead, "The Shield" was a highly complex morality tale about the slow steady fall of a cop who runs afoul of the law in the name of some higher good. Sutter adopted the lessons learned from his first …