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DVD The Unit - The Complete First Season
Full of action, intrigue, and espionage, The Unit offers a dramatic, fictionalized look inside the military while also giving viewers a peek inside the private lives of the elite squad. Conceived by the critically acclaimed David Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross, House of Games), The Unit is an elite, covert Special Forces team that operates outside the military chain of command. The first season's 13 episodes offer insight into the characters without revealing too much about the men who make up the operation. Are they extremely patriotic, or are they adrenalin junkies who have to be in danger to feel validated? The answer probably falls somewhere in between, and the viewer gets the feeling that as much as the men love their wives and children, it's their jobs that give them their true reason for living. Led by veteran Jonas Blane (Dennis Haysbert, 24), the Unit deals with terrorism, rescue missions, and assassinations quickly, discreetly, and efficiently. If all goes well, someone else gets the credit. If things go awry, it's their necks on the line. In the first season of The Unit--which aired from March to May 2006 as a mid-season replacement--the action is fast, the plot is succinct, and the acting is well done (when dealing with the deadly missions). It's the secondary storyline involving the wives that's less successful. The newest member of the Unit, Bob Brown (Scott Foley, Felicity), apparently didn't fill his wife Kim (Audrey Marie Anderson) in on what their new life would be like. From the beginning, she resists the hoo rah attitude that the other wives exhibit. But rather than coming across as an independent free thinker, she is presented as a whining drip of a woman who has no clue about the definition of a secret. Of course, when faced with the military's version of The Stepford Wives, who could blame her? As Jonas' supportive wife Molly, Regina Taylor (I'll Fly Away, Courage Under Fire) is less sympathetic than usual. In the early episodes, she comes across as an almost stalkerish busybody who is always there when Kim is trying to cope with a life she never wanted. Throw in an affair between commanding officer Colonel Tom Ryan (Robert Patrick, Terminator 2: Judgment Day) and one of the wives and you've got the makings of a military soap opera. The show is at its best when it concentrates on the men and their missions. We may not understand why they do what they do, but we're grateful that someone is doing the dangerous job for us. --Jae-Ha Kim
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great series
i really enjoy this series..have gotten into it since they removed JAG series from television.The Unit and NCIS are my two favorite shows on television..i hate reality shows but these are great shows in my opinion..
Mamet TV--Never What You Expect
David Mamet is no stranger to episodic TV. A couple seasons ago he wrote and directed an episode of The Shield, and in its final year he wrote and directed a Hill Street Blues episode. If you read what writer/directors like John Sayles say about directing television, you realize that television is, unlike film, not really a director's medium but a writer's medium. So the fact that Mamet, who has made himself into a quirky, often unpredictable filmmaker with movies as dissimilar as Things Change and Spartan and with a similar range of work in his scriptwriting ( The Verdict to The Edge to Ronin, not to mention his adaptations of his own plays), directs a few episodes of The Unit should not overly excite us: the fact, however, that Mamet is the mastermind and chief sensibility behind this show should. Adapted from a well written and exciting memoir by Eric L. Haney (who also is a producer of the series) called Inside Delta Force, The Unit is Mamet in his genre-busting, most thought-provoking mode, much as he was in the underrated Spartan and little seen Homicide. On one hand, The Unit is drenched in machismo and quite impressive action, as this small band of terrorist busting Delta operators zip across the world, meeting any threat to the US with steely-eyed toughness and unwavering intent. Simultaneously there is the story of the families on the home front, wives mostly, who end up taking care of most of the family business as their husbands are on 24 hour a day call to go where the bad guys are. On the surface this is what CBS does best: straightforward, simple minded action television, in the great tradition of JAG and NCIS. But this is a Mamet and co-producer Shawn Ryan effort, and like Mamet's quirkier movies and Ryan's The Shield, this show plays with the very conventions it dispenses. What happens when the arms dealer you have to take down is guarded by an army of children ("Eating The Young")? Or when you become a wanted terrorist yourself when your mission in a friendly country is suddenly scraped ("Non Permissive Environment")? Or when you become the target of Guantanamo-like torture by fellow Americans in a seemingly routine training course ("SERE")? At home, what is it like to be a wife who cannot be told where her husband goes whenever he walks out the door on a mission? Who cannot tell anyone but her sister Unit wives about the job her husband does? What does it mean to the most elite military unit in the US and to be, for all intents and purposes, not exist? Mamet has always been fascinated by shadow lives, be it the con men of House of Games, multinationals in The Spanish Prisoner, the thieves of Heist and Ronin. So as much as The Unit is an exciting and beautifully filmed series with a powerful cast (for those who have missed Regina Taylor since her stint on I'll Fly Away, it's great to see her again), it is a serious meditation on the cost on American's best men and women to fight a war on terror. You can certainly watch The Unit the way you watch CSI, JAG, or NCIS, with half your brain on hold--it's exciting TV. But you would be missing the best part of the show--the Mamet part.
Another great show from the creator of THE SHIELD
Shawn Ryan, the creator of THE SHIELD, amazes us again with this great show, the DVD set is just fine and the episodes of this first season are absolutelly great, really well produced with the right amount of action, mistery and well, you must see it for yourself...being a great fan of The Shield I feel a bit suspicious to talk about The Unit....Just sit back and enjoy the show...
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