The Shield: Complete Series

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All seven seasons of the Emmy®-winning, groundbreaking series in a collectible 34-page bound anthology book filled with photos, quotes and a special letter from creator Shawn Ryan! Loaded with DVD extras including new featurettes, this set includes all 88 arresting episodes and an amazing ensemble cast featuring Emmy® winner Michael Chiklis.

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They fixed it!

Review Date: January 12, 2010

Reviewer: Cletus Van Damme,

I just got my replacement set today and there is now a protective sleeve for each disc. Haven't checked them all yet, but so far they are totally mint! A stunningly beautiful series set for the most compelling drama ever. Amazing value.

No more scratches!!

Review Date: January 18, 2010

Reviewer: A. Adams, San Jose, CA

I really wanted to order this set but held off when I read all the reviews talking about the packaging problem. When the product went on backorder, I hoped Sony was fixing the problem and placed my order. The set arrived with paper inserts protecting each disc. No scratches on any disc. I have only played the first disc in its entirety (it was the only one that was slightly difficult to remove from its slot in the package) and it was flawless. This is a great series---don't miss it!

A great collection for my favorite TV show of all time.

Review Date: November 3, 2009

Reviewer: Brian William Ross, Wilmington, NC USA

The Shield is one of those shows that rips you in on the first episode and keeps you coming back again and again. I can't watch TV on Tuesday nights in the Fall without thinking about The Shield. If you're a fan of dark and gritty shows this is the cat's meow. From the very first episode, you are forced to come to odds with Detective Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis) the surprisingly likeable anti-hero of the show. Set in the fictional Barn district of LA, it is based around a corrupt gang-task force unit called the Strike Team.

Season One: The first episode is a gut shot. You spend the rest of the season trying to figure out how to like an anti-hero so dark you can't even begin to rationalize his deplorable actions. The deeply disturbing relationship between Captain Aceveda (Benito Martinez) and Mackey's Strike Team forms. Best season of the show, the show and Chiklis definitely earned their Golden Globes. 10/10

Season Two: The second season introduces a wider scope of bad guys for the Strike Team to deal with. It really builds on the anticillary characters and solidifies Mackey's survival instinct and Shane Vendrell's (Walton Goggins) bone-headed nature. The actions of the team in this season cast shockwaves that will last through out the course of the series. 9/10

Season Three: A slower season that deals with the conscience of the Strike Team in the aftermath of a major heist. The once tight family disengrates as the members struggle internally with how to handle their actions. Elsewhere in the Barn, Detective Claudette Wyms (CCH Pounder) begins to make a tustle for reform while Detective "Dutch" Wagenbach (Jay Karnes)takes a disturbing turn into darkness. 8/10

Season Four: With the Strike Team seperated things take interesting paths. Strike Team members Lem, Mackey, and Gardocki try to keep things clean, while Vendrell and his new partner continue the old ways. Vendrell doesn't have the instincts and smarts of Mackey and soon winds up over his head in the employ of drug dealer Antwon Mitchell (Anthony Anderson). Glenn Close joins the cast as Captain Monica Rawling. A fast paced season that leaves you questioning just who to trust. 9/10

Season Five: In one of the most powerful seasons, IA agent Jon Kavanaugh (Forest Whitaker) enters the Barn. Tasked with taking down Mackey, Kavanaugh tears the already fractured Strike Team apart with evidence against Lem. Kavanaugh is Mackey's equal and the two square off constantly to destroy each other. The season finale is dark and disturbing leaving a tremendous aftermath that shatters the already tenenous Strike Team. 10/10

Season Six: After the events of the season five finale, Vic is on the warpath. With one hand he is vengance bound, on the other he is trying to save his career as brass tries to force him into retirment. Vandrell continues to seperate himself from the rest of the Strike Team as he falls in with the Armenian Mob and struggles with internal guilt. Wyms now promoted to the captain of the Barn is deadset on saving it from itself and all those that stand in its way. 7/10

Season Seven: The final season. Vic still set on vengance finally has a true target, while Vandrell goes entirely rogue on the lamb. Wyms and Dutch race against time to finally take down Mackey, while Gardocki and himself go darker than ever - hunting one of their own. Season Seven pits Vic against everyone he loves and tests his survival instinct to its core. In the end, it is a chilling season that should have earned Emmy nods for Michael Chiklis and Walter Goggins. 10/10

The series has its highs and lows, but on a whole remains a powerful piece and one of the best cop shows ever. This a series I've watched over and over again in marathon sessions. I owned all but the final season on DVD and have since given them away when word of the complete series finally came around.

This is a must have DVD collection and my favorite TV show of all time.

ARE YOU KIDDING.....ONE OF THE BEST PACKAGING

Review Date: January 27, 2010

Reviewer: Bob Wyler, HOLLYWOOD

I can't believe every review bashed the packaging. This complete series set is one of the best....no is the best packaging I have ever received. I am a collector & either I got something the other reviewers didn't or ? This collection is very well done. The artwork on the pages & episode info is very well done. If allowed I would give it 10 stars. All this goes without saying this was one of the best series on television. 10 STARS

A fitting packaging for one of the most ground-breaking dramas ever aired

Review Date: November 28, 2009

Reviewer: Michael A. Weyer,

I have seen the complaints from many on disc scratches and agree there's the risk with these cardboard sets. But if you can get past that, this is still a fantastic show that shines no matter how it's set up. This ranks right up there with "The Wire" and "Battlestar Galactica" as the greatest dramas never nominated for a Best Drama Emmy. But thier loss is the viewer's gain.

It's amazing to consider just how much "The Shield" changed television. Before 2001, people figured that the only way to do real hard-hitting adult dramas was pay cable such as HBO or Showtime. But "The Shield" changed that forever, making people realize you could do daring TV without needing such utter freedom as long as it worked. And it does, in every way possible. Without this show, we wouldn't have "Nip/Tuck," "Damages," "The Closer," or "Mad Men." That's more of a legacy that most shows get but it's well earned.

In one set, the series is truly a novel for television, a look at a district so riddled with crime that the cops often have no choice but to break the rules to keep order. The character shine throughout and provide a fantastic roster: A beat cop struggling with his sexuality; his partner showing how hard it is for a woman to be accepted in a man's field; a noble detective who keeps being hopefuly despite the darkness of his cases; and the captain who's willing to put his goals of political office over justice. And at the center is the Strike Team, a group of cops who regularly bribe, accept bribes, blackmail, steal and even murder while wearing the badge. Throw in season-long guest appearances by Glenn Close and Forest Whitikar and you've got sheer brilliance.

The prime reason the show works can be summed up in two words: Michael Chiklis. The actor deservedly won an Emmy for the show's first season but should have been in the running for every one after. His Vic Mackey remains one of television's most amazing characters, a man willing to do anything to get ahead but Chiklis manages the impossible: Not only making a cheating, murdering corrup cop not only someone to root for but even a sympathetic figure to boot. Half the fun of the show is seeing Vic managing to pull his schemes right under the noses of his superiors and keep on top. Yet you feel the pain he does with his family problems and more. Thanks to him, the show shines as well as it does and the actor should always be remembered for his work here.

The extras are terrific with slews of commentaries, deleted scenes and more. The box set has a good booklet on the show as well as a bonus disc of new features, such as the real-life police scandal that inspired the series. But it's the show itself that deserves attention, not just for how it changed the rules of cable TV but how it happens to be one of the most powerful, shocking, emotional dramas ever. From the first shot to the stunning finale, "The Shield" is a must-have for a fan of TV, no matter what genere you like. And if the box set isn't perfect? Well, the number one rule of "The Shield" was always how it's not a pretty world but you make your best with it.