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| The Shield - The Complete Fifth Season | 
 enlarge | Actor: Michael Chiklis
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
List Price: $49.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 3266
Format: Box Set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 4
Running Time: 498
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 25030
UPC: 043396250307
EAN: 0043396250307
ASIN: B0012CJQZA
Theatrical Release Date: March 12, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: factory sealed
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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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 Let's Hope Season 7 Gets Things Back On Track March 17, 2008
11 out of 15 found this review helpful
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.
 Great season; character is destiny; great setup for Season 7 March 18, 2008
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
Season 6 was great, though frustratingly short. But it was clear from the start that it was the set-up for whatever the final season is going to bring. I will also say that Season 6 is MUCH better on the 2nd and 3rd viewings-- there are some great details, subtleties, and setups that I didn't catch the first time through. And there are the usual numbers of great 'Shield' moments.
A step sideways, not back March 21, 2008
7 out of 12 found this review helpful
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.
 The Sheild Season 6 March 23, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a season that most people will not like, I think. However, it's nothing more then a setup for the final season. Season 6 was originally supposed to be tacked onto season 5, making it one long season with season 6 to be the last. However it was felt that season 5 was too long and FX wanted it broken up. Then they asked for another season after 6, and here we are.
It's still a great season with a lot to offer.
Not Available Until 09/2008! March 28, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Please be aware that while Amazon shows this in stock, it is not and will not be available for shipment until September 2008.
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