Product Description

Detective Vic Mackey is the leader of an elite Strike Team unit a group of cops effective at eliminating crime but also operating under Vic's own set of rules. But his rules sometimes cross the fine line between legal and illegal. Now the precinct has a new captain who doesn't like Vic's tactics and wants to bust him off the force - even as the captain finds himself going to Vic for help whenever the going gets rough.Now is your chance to experience all the action and excitement of television's most controversial show...from the beginning.System Requirements:Running Time: 600 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 043396250147 Manufacturer No: 25014

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8539 in DVD
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 2008-03-25
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.77:1
• Formats: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish
• Dubbed in: Portuguese, Spanish
• Number of discs: 4
• Dimensions: .75 pounds
• Running time: 600 minutes

Customer Reviews

Explosive
From the first scene, you know this isn't going to be your regular TV cop drama. Hard hitting, combat style filming, harsh street dialog make The Shield the best show out there. If you watch the first season, you will be hooked into the whole series. DVD quality is great and rewatching the episodes with commentary by the director and actors really gives insight as to the vision they all had. A must see!

Wow!
All I gotta say is wow. I'm a big fan of TV on DVD and have been searching for my next show to get into. I have all the 24 seasons, all the Lost seasons (my two favorites...until now), and was looking for something to watch since I'm all caught up on those two shows and prefer serial type shows.

I decided to give Shield a shot remembering the glowing reviews (and controversy) it had when it first came out back in...well, whenever it came out (sorry, currently too lazy to dig for that particular fact).

I can say that the first season of The Shield was probably some of the best stuff I have ever seen in a TV show. It is on par with some of the best movie dramas ever made. I highly recommend this show to anyone who has not seen it before (those folks like me looking for TV on DVD they haven't seen before). I can only hope that further seasons live up to this first one.

Not for the faint hearted
I remember this show being on Australian TV a few years back but didn't watch it. After recently seeing the DVD sets on sale at a local department store, I decided to give season one a go. Boy, am I glad I did, as every episode blew me away. I received a buzz similar to that of watching Hill Street Blues on DVD for the first time or seeing NYPD Blue when it premiered on television. The Shield though doesn't have anywhere as much humour as HSB and is somewhat more violent than NYPD Blue.

There are only 13 episodes in the set but the drama and action is in your face. There are times when the strike team cops are heroes and times when they are villians. They'll do almost anything to get results but often leave many loose ends along the way, which have to be attended to in future episodes. Michael Chiklis was born for the role of Vic Mackey.

Soon after watching season one, I went out and bought season two. Took me just a few days to watch all the season two episodes and am now in possession of seasons three and four. Only gripe with my Region 4 DVDs is that I've come across a couple of faulty discs (occasional vibrating/whirring sounds on more than one DVD player) and have had to exchange two of the sets. Still gave my review 5 stars since Amazon.com is not selling Region 4 discs (although did notice that previous reviewer (American?) experienced some problems - is Sony having problems worldwide with these sets?).

Anyway, hold on to your seat and enjoy the ride! One suggestion though: you may want to keep the remote control close by in case you need to refer back to the subtitles after missing some quick dialogue, and so you can turn down the volume of the closing theme music. While the theme suits the show, I do find it quite loud and annoying.