A former playwright who dabbled in acting, television writer and executive producer Kurt Sutter cut his teeth writing for seven seasons on the gritty cop drama, “The Shield” (FX, 2002-08). 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
