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• Actors: Michael Chiklis
• Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 4
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• Run Time: 498 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0012CJQZA
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #14,365 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Editorial Reviews

Product Description

"Conscience is a killer" is the catchphrase that made season 5 of The Shield the most intense season of the series to date. These 11 tightly scripted episodes comprise the first half of a 21-episode arc with series creator Shawn Ryan referring to the sixth season (broadcast in 2007) as "Season 5.1." This is The Shield at its finest culminating in a climactic 11th episode ("Postpartum") that ricochets the series toward a complex range of dramatic complications. Jumping the shark? Not a chance pal--not when you've got soon-to-be Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker in his outstanding guest-star role as Det. John Kavanaugh the upright tormented Internal Affairs cop determined to destroy Det. Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis) and his corrupt LAPD Strike Team. As Kavanaugh mounts an obsessive campaign to reveal Mackey's shameful secrets conscience is a killer in the Strike Team's midst: Ronnie (David Rees Snell) maintains a stoical voice of reason but as Mackey recruits (and seduces) a savvy lawyer (Laura Harring) to defend against Kavanaugh's harassment Curtis "Lemonhead" Lemansky (Kenneth Johnson never better) desperately protects the Strike Team with a sacrificial gambit that provokes Shane (Walton Goggins) to commit a crime that's both shockingly tragic and dramatically ingenious since it forcefully propels The Shield toward a bold and unpredictable future.System Requirements:Running Time: 546 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC: 043396250307 Manufacturer No: 25030

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow., February 7, 2009

By	Jason Kleeberg "J. Kleeberg" (Stockton, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Since this has been out for a while, and if you're researching season 5, hopefully you've already seen the 4 before it, I'll make it short.

I've seen every episode of The Shield, and the finale of this season is one of the best episodes of TV - of ANY show - that I've ever seen.

I think it's the second best season (second only to season 1) that this show has ever had.

If you're a fan of the show, what are you waiting for?

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A step sideways, not back, March 21, 2008

By	Patrick G. Varine "Dubwiser Extraordinaire" (Georgetown, Delaware) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have to agree somewhat with a previous reviewer in that it seems the writers found out about halfway through writing S6 that there was going to be an S7, because while the first five or six episodes really start to ratchet things up, the back half sort of continually slows down, to the point where the season-ender really seems to "kill you with quiet," to paraphrase another review I'd read.

Additionally, a lot of people may feel that the "big crime" plotline involving a dozen or so hacked-up bodies, an undercover agent and several shady Hispanic figures, was a little too complicated to follow. I didn't think so, but I can see where that might come from.

That said, where that story eventually goes sets up a FANTASTIC plotline for the final season. However, I did find myself waiting for a lot of reckoning between different characters that never came, which reinforces my belief that maybe things were on track for S6 to cap the series, then S7 got a green light, and all of a sudden the writers had to buy a little time.

Regardless, with the notable exception of 'The Wire,' 'The Shield' is still the best, most engaging cop show on TV.

13 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Let's Hope Season 7 Gets Things Back On Track, March 17, 2008

By	AER (USA) - See all my reviews

I'm not ready to write off The Shield yet -- it's been a TV addiction on par with The Wire and Sopranos for five stellar seasons now -- but as much as I hate to say it, Season Six takes the show in directions that have serious shark-jumping potential. I won't get into spoilers or specifics for those who wait for the DVDs, but I will say that something just felt "off" this season: the writers seemed to be just making things up from episode to episode, new characters (like the blandly handsome Hiatt or Franka Potente's Armenian mob heiress) are flat and uninteresting, and old characters now seem ineffectual or inconsistent, especially Claudette's and Julian's disappointingly passive new roles.

The Shield was always a show that skirted the limits of plausibility, often with breathtaking results, but I think somewhere, somehow the makers of the show weren't on top of their game this time. There are some still-riveting moments/episodes, but other storylines seem to limp along or go in disappointing, soap-opera-type directions. I might be wrong, but I could have sworn that on the extras for the Season 5 DVD set, creator Shawn Ryan had said that Season 6 would be the final season, but obviously we know now this isn't the case. Maybe everyone tried to stretch things out for an extra season, and some narrative momentum got lost? In any case, I really hope that when everyone regrouped to film the final season, they did so with the intention of getting back the magic and character-based tensions that made the first five seasons so special.