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5.0 out of 5 stars
An Amazing and Powerful Journey, April 16, 2006
This review is from: The Shield - Seasons 1-4 (DVD)
The Shield is possibly one of the greatest shows to ever be on TV.
The show follows several different detectives and police officers within the L.A. area, living out their lives trying to fight crime. The majority of the story follows Vick Mackey and his team: Lem, Shane, and Ronnie. It focuses on their trials and hardships as they try to continue their grip on the city's crime. They'll do anything and everything to keep the streets safe, and I mean anything. When you think you've gotten to the point when you can't be any more surprised, your wrong.
The Shield has an excellent cast. Instead of focussing only on one of the show's characters, it decides to expand and develope all of them. This causes to you have an emotional attachment to even the smallest character in the show, something I've never seen before. The writing and direction are perfect in every way dragging you into the story of each episode. This makes every episode worth watching at least once. You will not want to miss a minute.
Season 1: 5 Stars
Season 2: 4 1/2 Stars
Season 3: 5 Stars
Season 4: 4 Stars
Every season is worth owning on Dvd. I highly reccomend it.
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It'll keep you on the edge of your seat..., April 15, 2007
I had never watched The Shield, but of course I had heard good things about it. Bought this set off the Gold Box sale and it is my new favorite show...I've already sailed through almost all of the four seasons in about three weeks time, bought Season 5 and hope to catch up to the current season. This show is as good and gritty as it gets, with lines of good and evil not only blurring, but overlapping. The show lets you be the judge. Action, character development, social commentary, outstanding performances, suspense and intrigue. I didn't expect to like this show this much.
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One Long Adrenalin Rush - Outstanding, March 24, 2006
This review is from: The Shield - Seasons 1-4 (DVD)
One of the great trends in US TV over the last decade has been the evolution of the high quality complex adult drama series.
You can almost trace the evolutionary routes that brought us to The Shield.
Hill Street Blues brought us NYPD Blue, then we had Oz, Sopranos and Six Feet Under.
The Shield is like the badly behaved illegitimate off-spring of The Sopranos and NYPD Blue on steroids.
Lead character and morally ambiguous front man Vic Mackey (bullet-headed Michael Chiklis) is an incredibly compelling character, leading an L.A. strike team in a rough city precinct.
The character is brilliantly complex.
He's a money-grabbing corrupt cop, but he still puts runs on the board by putting away the bad guys.
He's a broken machine, but still the most effective means of cleaning up the streets.
Beyond Vic, the other characters are equally complex, unpredictable and illustrative of different human qualities.
Police captain turned Councillor Acevada is the political animal of the series, again showing good and very very bad qualities in equal measure.
Glenn Close does an excellent job of her portrayal of the police captain, too.
Which leads me to point out that The Shield, like Oz and The Sopranos, are shows that have more quality, more compulsion and more addictive quality for the viewer than many, many movies these days.
This is easily the best show to have been on TV for a long time and will throw curve-balls at the viewer to keep them on the edge of their seat.
Lean, mean, tough, gritty and ugly, but oh-so wonderful, too.
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