| The Shield - The Complete Sixth Season | 
 enlarge | Director: Various
Actor: Michael Chiklis
Studio: Columbia Tri/Star
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 30
Format: Anamorphic, Box Set, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Ntsc, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Running Time: 498 minutes
Number Of Items: 4
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.7
MPN: 25035
UPC: 043396250352
EAN: 0043396250352
ASIN: B0015TX2LO
Theatrical Release Date: March 12, 2002
Release Date: August 26, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Ships first class. 4 DVDs. Factory sealed original US issue. 101% guaranteed.
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 No double dipping until Blu-ray September 2, 2008
I'm a big fan of the show and have purchased every season until now. But, I'm not happy with these new releases. All the previous seasons were released here in the US in 4x3 format even though a lot of fans of the show would have preferred the widescreen editions released everywhere else in the world. And now they've re-released all of the previous seasons in SD widescreen and season 6 is only offered in that format. I can't justify paying $40 to $50 for a ten episode season when the format doesn't match that of all the previous seasons. And that goes for the upcoming 7th season as well. Eventually, all of the seasons will be released in HD widescreen on Blu-ray. I'm just going to wait for that.
 More great episodes of The Shield August 31, 2008
Season 6 of The Shield picks up where season 5 left off. A new storyline is introduced in the premier episode that I found confusing to follow the first time I watched but was able to follow on the second viewing. By the last episode of this season, what happens next in this storyline is key to Vic Mackey's future on the Strike Team.
Overall, the presentation of the DVDs is consistent with the Season 5 DVDs. Packaging is 2 DVDs per slim case, which takes up less room on the shelf. There are commentaries on 8 of the 10 episodes as well as deleted scenes with commentaries for 8 of 10 episodes. Listening to the commentaries is always entertaining and informative as we learn about how this show is developed. There are three behind the scenes features too.
I'm giving this DVD set 4.5 stars - the series and the extras are 5 star, but I take a half star away as this set is presented in widescreen. I believe it was originally broadcast on FX as fullscreen and I think that's a more appropriate 'in your face' presentation for a TV show like The Shield.
Before you watch this season you must watch seasons 1 through 5 first, you won't be disappointed!
Losing its luster August 31, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Still as much fast-paced action as ever...yet it's different than previous seasons, and not for the better. Earlier, some reasonable people who were determined to fight crime in an imperfect system took some risks, keeping us all on the edge of our seats to see what would happen next -- and caring about it. Now, they have gone way over the edge into improbable scenarios and lost our empathy and our interest. This is the first Shield series where I lost emotional contact about 1/3 of the way through, and started watching my watch. Unless you're a die hard Shield fan, your money might be better spent on something else.
 Great season, short but sweet August 27, 2008
This season takes off right after the events of the season 5 finale, Forest is back for a few episodes this season, and is as good as ever.
This was a good season, Vic goes deeper and deeper into the rabbits hole, whilst trying everything imaginable to keep his job.
The tension gets a little out of control throughout this season as Shane gets in way over is head.
I loved this season, my only complaint would be after the last episode, I was stumped, I kept thinking my dvds were missing an episode, but they were not. I wish we had more than 10 episodes.
Last, but not least, this season is FINALLY PRESENTED IN WIDESCREEN!
The show has been shot and produced in widescreen since day 1, however, in the US, we only have Full Frame presentations. I'm glad Sony has the rights to the show now, and I hope they re-release seasons 1-5 in widescreen here in the states. I will buy them immediately, (but please include some more bonuses).
I cannot recommend this show enough, but you should be familiar with season 5 prior to viewing 6.
The Shield doesn't step aside, it steps up August 22, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
For all its hard-edges and testosterone-fuelled machismo, The Shield never fails to paint its principal characters as touchingly human, even if the moments are few and far between that we get to glimpse these more tender parts, and this is one of the elements of its success at being the most emotionally cathartic, intense, adrenaline-rush on the telly.
The Shield, in my albeit humble opinion, is the single best product ever recorded to celluloid with the intention of playing it back for entertainment purposes: bar nothing. It's the best thing that's ever graced my TV screen, and makes other top-drawer productions look pedestrian and even lame by comparison.
Season six is full-throttle, pedal to the metal in the style we've become accustomed to, but due to events leading up to the start of the season, the protagonists seem to be in the full throes of a ravaging tornado this season, even more than others.
Walt Goggins serves up the convincing intensity of a man who, already mentally questionable at the best of times, is fully unravelling and on a collision course with his own life and the lives of all the others around him as he becomes hopelessly suicidal and insanely reckless on a lone-ranger syle rampage that King Kong would be proud of.
Mackey is on top of his game, keeping a hundred balls in the air at once, making the tough decisions as always, but somehow, this season, you can sense that he is only human and there are things out there that are capable of crushing his game-plan, which has always been a success up to this point and is one of the most admirable things about the man.
The new guy steps up to the vacant spot on the Strike Team with the intention of replacing Mackey as the team leader, and the storyline revolving around his time at the Barn is a worthy one.
The early episode "Baptism by Fire", where Mackey goes "off the grid" to kidnap a Byz Lat gang-boss from his East LA ghetto stronghold, is one of the most insanely edgey and pumped-up things I have ever seen. Only The Shield can crank the intensity up to these levels, leaving all other movies and TV serials in the dust. The tension this programme can create is just unbelievable, it almost gets to the point where you need a hit of The Shield, you're no longer just watching it.
All in all, season six is superb. It juggles all the relevant parts and people in just the right way, and keeps on turning up the volume, even from points where you don't think it can anymore. It's insane. Season seven I have no doubt will be even crazier. I can't speak highly enough of this TV series, the quality of its creative and technical production and anyone and everyone who is and was involved in making it. There's never been anything else like it, it's a total trail-blazer that keeps getting better as each season goes past. Full marks 100% if 5 stars isn't good enough for ya.
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