Reception
Time magazine's James Poniewozik ranked it #8 in his list of the Top 10 Returning Series of 2007. Entertainment Weekly put it on its end-of-the-decade, "best-of" list, saying, "Det. Vic Mackey didn't just clean up the streets--he cleaned up on the streets. Would he pay for those sins? This gutsy TV drama kept us guessing." On the review aggregator website Metacritic, the seventh season received very positive reviews with a score of 85 out of 100, based on 14 reviews.
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