The Shield - The Complete Series

The Shield was one of the greatest series in television history, and certainly groundbreaking when it aired on cable (FX) as opposed to paid programming like HBO. It did more to further the TV anti-hero than even the Sopranos, and something like Breaking Bad likely wouldn't have happened with Vic Mackey blazing the way. Both the writing and acting were top notch, and the show never lost a step in any season. The Blu-Ray set includes a cast reunion as well that makes this worth getting even if you already have the DVD collection.

On the set: This entire set like this is one of the best deals you will ever find. You could go out and try to get each and every season on its own, and piecing them together MIGHT get you a deal like this. Still, if you missed out and you want to wathc it then you are going to really want to see it all. Itt is an addictive show and it has things in it that HAVE to be followed up. If you miss a piece you miss a lot, so having all the seasons here is a great opprotunity. Beyond that, you get a few little things here that you might not find on your hunt - nothing I thought was major but things you might like and can see listed in a product layout. It would make the best gift to someone, yourself included. On the show: What do you get when you put a cop on the street, give him the keys to the kingdom, protect him with a badge, and then show him exactly what can and cannot get done? You get one of the best series to ever grace the screen. From the roots of the series and the rocky start of our very nefarious cop to the end of everything and the way the dominoes fall is beautiful. I honestly had no idea what would happen. You get to knwo these people,a ll of them, and you get to know everyone else in the unit to. you see "The Barn" for what it is; a group of personalities that have their own lives and their own problems and their own ways of doing things. some of them are simply people trying to get by while others - well, they are walking slopes that really seem dangerous. All the while you keep wondering when things will cave in and who will do the honors and, well, it keeps you engaged until the end. I haven't loved a show like this in a long, long time. When it came to The Shield, it was hard to fault the show. It started with a bang and it ended with a bang, and this was not one of those things that got cancelled along the way,. It CHOSe to go off on top and that was a great thing. Otherwise it might have lingered and the people on the top didn't want that. What they did want was for the show to spin a web aroudn the watchers that would captivate them and it did that and more. From the streets and the way things were handled to the thngs going on behind closed doors, this series had it all. all the people were here, all of them were somewha flawed, and all of them were interesting. I remember watching one of the detectives, Dutch, and I kept wondering if he was going to slide into madness when a specific event involving a cat happened to him. It made me think and question and watch everything again just to see clues relating to that person. And the whole thing is like that. As far as acting, you have the best fromt he top to the bottom. Simply look over the cast and you see a list of talent a proverbial mile long. It really is amazing to note how good the going got, too, because having that many names in a show on TV is not the regular thing you see. Still, The Shield had it. If you want a season by season break down, there are those on the product pages. Getting this gets it all, however, and it does so at a cost that you really would like. Had I not gotten it a while back I would have jumped here, and I have known two people that have picked this up already and can say with certainty that it is high quality and nice. You know what you want and know why you want it so you have to make the call. Stil, if you are wonnering, it is WELL worth it.

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.

I remember discovering this series between seasons 5 and 6 and it absolutely blew me away. Back then I enjoyed to take risks on media by purchasing random DVDs of shows I'd heard good things about from Wal-Mart, Best Buy and local shops. It's how I discovered this, House, The X-Files, Battlestar Galactica, Lost etc. I bought the first two seasons that night in case I really enjoyed it and ended up binging it. Needless to say I was at a local shop the next day and purchased seasons 3-5. I was absolutely hooked. It's honestly one of the best serial series that I've ever seen. The writing is beyond most everything of its time. Even if it were released now it'd still be just as jarring, perhaps even more so with how sanitized entertainment has become over the past few years. I remember hearing Shawn Ryan was putting together a blu-ray set and mentioned remastering the entire series in widescreen. For some reason it completely slipped my mind and fell off my radar until about 3-4 months ago. I was feeling nostalgic after 'No Way Home' and looked back at the shows and films I'd enjoyed the most and couldn't wait to rewatch the series. That's when the fact that there was a blu-ray set wormed its way back into my mind. I was ecstatic to get this box set and, my word, it doesn't let you down in any way imaginable. If you're a fan of this show, this is definitively the box you need in your blu-ray collection. Everything you could ever want is here and then some. Every sort of extra you can think of like deleted scenes, commentary tracks for almost every episode of the series, featurettes on various topics concerning the making of the series and tons of behind the scenes footage. There's two full discs of extras on top of the ones included in each disc before them. Already have the DVDs and can't decide whether to pull the trigger? Do it, seriously. The remaster is worth the price alone as it's leagues above what the DVD set offered. There's tons of new bonus features and it even has one hell of a box set to boot! The discs are stored in glossy, thick and sturdy cardboard sleeves inside of what appears to be a penal code book. Quite a nice touch. I've removed the discs multiple times at this point and none of them have been scratched. This penal code "book" is then placed into an outer container with a magnetic closure to make sure nothing happens that you don't choose yourself. Buy this. It's one of the few television sets on blu-ray that literally took advantage of just about every feature you can think of for the format. I can't recommend this enough.

Having never watched any of this show on it's initial run, I was a little apprehensive about this purchase due to 2 things. 1. Someone told me they found the series unrealistic. 2. There were complaints here about the newer formatted packaging. As for the 1st apprehension, although based on a true story, if the scripts followed every detail to letter of what happened, I'm guessing it would have made for a pretty boring series. Heck, we probably wouldn't even be pondering such details, because there's a strong chance the show would never have seen airtime, let alone an eventual release as a complete series box set. Please do not misconstrue this as a slight to the original people that lived it and felt the pain involved; real life hard work is just that, and includes tragedies that we will (hopefully) never experience. But we do now have access to this excellent series based on that story and I do love ARMCHAIR ACTION, especially when mixed with gut-wrenching, edge-of-the-seat drama with a helpful (more often than not inappropriate) sprinkling of humor mixed into the recipe. The Shield: The Complete Collection delivered all that and more. I won't go into every episode, but I will say that this is not only a heavily thought-out & emotion-provoking series, but also well acted by the revolving cast of regular characters as well as the strategic choices of well-known actors. I had never been a fan of Glenn Close before, so I didn't find it the least bit compelling that she was a part of this series, but she is so great in this that I didn't want to see her leave. Forrest Whitaker storms through his role like an irritant, electrifying hurricane. His acting in this role is creepy and revolting, and he's one of the good guys - heh! Incredible stuff. Is it over the top? Way so. Is it unrealistic? Yeah, at times, but also VERY realistically gritty and one of those shows that I was glad to have waited to own the entire series because I could not stop watching it. I am now planning a re-watch, but have to negotiate an open period of time to do so (a good television series is worth it, but it can be a maneuver getting proper sleep while allowing oneself to be hypnotized by the episode-to-episode seduction). The packaging? The DVDs are stacked on a center hub. Personally, I've never found this to be a problem, and is way more preferred than having discs stored tightly wedged in those thick cardboard wallet sleeves like some box sets, causing scratches almost immediately upon removal. So I say, stack 'em high, whether or not it keeps the price down, the bottom line is I have never had a disc freeze or skip due to this type of storage. Add in Amazon's top-shelf Packaging & Shipping Department, and we equal a successful purchase all around. Since I began to shop on Amazon, I have always felt that their Employees do not get enough credit in reviews for all the hard work they put into getting these items delivered safely to our doors. I guess it's easy enough for some to take that for granted, but considering the pricing and convenience of this service, I, for one, am grateful for all that they do. This brick of a Box Set now sits proudly on my shelf awaiting it's next watch due to their excellent handling of the merchandise and the preparation to ensure that it arrived in absolutely New condition. Thank you!

I've seen a lot of Cop shows and I think this series is worth the time to watch.

Hi there, Jason here from the Kleeberg Family Blog. The Shield was the first TV show that made me lose sleep after watching an episode. It was the first TV show that really showed what cable TV could do, and along with 24, set the bar for justice dramas for years to come. I got into The Shield around 2006. I ripped through the first five seasons and then absorbed six and seven when they were released on DVD. It quickly became one of my favorite TV shows ever, and remains that way today. The show is amazingly written, the acting is fantastic, and there are plenty of turns you’ll never see coming. The show is just as relevant now as it was then (save for a few dated references and songs). This was Breaking Bad before Breaking Bad. Unfortunately, the broadcast quality of the series, especially in the early going, wasn’t what we’re used to now. I remember years ago that Shawn Ryan said he was working on a Shield remaster, but then there was a year of silence. It seemed like the day would never come. Finally, there was a pre-order on Amazon for $120, and it was set for November of 2018. I jumped on it immediately - that’s under $20 a season. After a couple delays, it finally arrived today. With this careful 4K restoration, Shawn Ryan has fixed that. This Blu-Ray set gives us all seven seasons remastered, along with a ton of extras. I popped in a few discs from different seasons to see the transformation and it’s huge. The show looks great. The difference from the DVD to this restoration really is astounding and you can see the time and care it took to make it happen in every frame. The original broadcast was 4:3, this is now widescreen at 1:78:1. The packaging looks great, although Amazon dinged my box up by sending it in an envelope instead of a box. The discs are housed in a book, with each page housing a disc. The front has an embossed shield, which slides into a box with a magnetic flap. It looks great. If you’re a fan of Breaking Bad, The Wire, or early seasons of Sons of Anarchy, you have to check out The Shield. It’s one of the best TV shows ever made and unlike a lot of shows (ie. Dexter, Lost, The Sopranos), it has a perfect close at the end of its run. Here are some pics of the box set. Go order it now!

I remember watching every week it was a great show ... shout out to Walton Goggins that actor has really turned into one of the greats IMO ...

La migliore serie poliziesca , completa perfetta in italiano

Série espetacular, só é todo inglês. Não tem legendas em português.

La série est géniale mais le coffret un peu moins. 2 piles de dvd entassés et malheureusement une fois sur deux quand je l'ouvre les dvd ont bougé et sortent de leur emplacement.

Se ve estupendo, la única pega q no tiene sub títulos en castellano.

何で日本でもっと放映しないのか不思議なくらい面白かった。最後は切ない終わり方だったけど栄枯盛衰は何でも同じなのですね。おすすめのドラマです。