Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 0024543541677 Format: AC-3 Label: Fox / MGM Manufacturer: Fox / MGM Number Of Items: 3 Publisher: Fox / MGM Region Code: 1 Release Date: 2008-10-14 Running Time: 484 Studio: Fox / MGM
Customer Rating: Summary: Great half season, would be better if there's no strike. Comment: This season has a very strong start. Due to the writer's guild on strike, this season never finish the way it supposed to be. It really happen to many other shows not particular this one.
I see overall video clarity improvement in this season. Check out my other reviews in Season 1 and 2.
Bottom line is you still get a great half season of drama. Customer Rating: Summary: Good to have the complete season Comment: The Unit is my husband's favorite show, but since the third season was so chopped up because of the writer's strike it was difficult to follow the story. It's great to have access to it like this, my husband should enjoy his Christmas present. Customer Rating: Summary: Dissatisfied Comment: I waited for over a month and never recieved my order. I attempted to contact the seller twice but recieved no response. Customer Rating: Summary: I did not receive the movie Comment: I did not receive this produce and will end up going to Target to get it Customer Rating: Summary: Starts strongly, then descends into hot garbage Comment: The first season of The Unit is some of the best stuff ever put on TV, especially the pilot: tough, no-nonsense action with rugged heroes and enough syrupy soap drama to keep the wives happy. The second season was in a few rare instances even better, with outstanding episodes like "Johnny B. Goode," "Kill Zone," and "In Loco Parentis."
It's with great sadness that I report the third season is, as my own senior drill sergeant would have said, "hot f-ing garbage." The season opens strongly, with the team split in the two part "Pandemonium." Blane sports a new look, and it even looks as though Dennis Haysbert has been hitting the gym for the role. The two-parter is just fantastic all around, with quick-pacing and solid writing. The episode "Five Brothers," in which one of the team is shockingly killed (and its follow-up where Blane goes renegade to deal out his own vengeance), is also high-tension, high-quality Unit action at its finest.
Then it just hits the floor and doesn't get back up. I'm not sure whether to blame the writers' strike, Eric Haney, or David Mamet, but the show just becomes awful. An atrocious new theme song, a weak alt-rock number, replaces the pitch-perfect previous main titles. The writing also becomes more ADHD than Robin Williams live comedy shows, with the Unit moving its focus from vaguely plausible missions in places like Afghanistan to wannabe-007 undercover garbage. Seriously? What set The Unit apart from other shows before was its relatively accurate portrayal of an elite infantry team and their action (like in the first season episode, "200th Hour," where you see the Unit killhouse). In moving away from this and moving more towards generic espionage adventures, the show's creators have lost what made The Unit special to begin with.
I haven't seen any of Season 4 yet, mostly because I have been busy with my own military training and prepping for Ranger School in the spring. But if it's continued the poor precedent established here, then put a fork in the Unit before it drags on and embarrasses itself like West Wing did after Aaron Sorkin left the show.
