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In addition to the 2-disc DD/DTS DVD, the GITS:SAC Vol. 7 SE comes with a metal collector’s box for all 7 DVDs of the first season. It also comes with a white Laughing Man T-Shirt and a Tachikoma ID card.

would rate the show as 5 stars, this is a review of the extras and features of the Special Edition issue.

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I recently bought all the Special Edition releases of “Stand Alone Complex” after trying to research what I was going to get as extras not included in the regular edition. I found the listings on Amazon’s product details to be a little confusing and incomplete on some of the volumes so I decided to write this guide for others trying to decide. I’m not going to review the “Ghost in the Shell” episodes or the series in general because there are so many excellent reviews already on this site, and most of you probably know about this great anime TV series already. There are various other reviews that say that some of the DVD’s and CD’s have errors on them and Bandai will replace them with corrected discs if you send them in for exchange. I have not ran into problems yet, although I haven’t gone through the whole series either. And I will also state that I love the TV series as well as both movies, but I would recommend the Imported Region 2 version of GITS2:Innocence if you have a region free DVD player. Dreamworks really messed up that release omiting the English dub and putting Hard of Hearing subtitles instead of regular ones on the early issues of that movie. Most people find them very distracting and annoying.

First off the discs themselves, you get two DVD discs in each volume with the same episodes on both discs. Volumes 1-5 have 4 episodes each, 6 and 7 have 3 episodes each making 26 episodes total in the series. Both discs are Anamorphic wide screen encoded directly from the High-Definition Masters. Both Discs also have English subtitles. Each set also has two interviews with voice cast or someone associated with the production of the anime, and a printed DVD insert pamphlet or booklet with different interviews and such for each volume. All discs are Region 1.

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Disc one has Dolby Digital 5.1 in Japanese and English, and Dolby Digital 2.0 in English and Japanese.

Disc two has DTS 5.1 in English and Japanese and a Dolby Digital 2.0 English track.

Volumes 1 and 2 include soundtrack CD’s of the music of Yoko Kanno, the most excellent and versatile composer of the music in the TV series. Anime lovers know her work from the many fine soundtracks that she’s done for countless other anime movies and TV series.

Volume 3 has a Black XL Fruit of the Loom Tee-Shirt with the section 9 logo on the front and a Major Kusanagi graphic on the back. Nice shirt!

Volumes 4 and 5 have a collectable I.D. cards for a section 9 member.

Volume 6 has a Black XL Fruit of the Loom Tee-Shirt with the section 9 logo on the front and a Batou graphic on the back, and another I.D. card. Nice shirt again!

Volume 7 has another Tee-Shirt! This time it’s a White XL with the section 9 logo on the front, and the Laughing Man logo on the back! Once again nice shirt! It also comes with a tin box that’s supposed to hold all 7 volumes of the DVD set. I was excited about getting the box but when it arrived I was disappointed with the design. It’s kind of like the rectangular lunch box that you used to take to school as a kid, without the handle and latch. Its also of a thinner metal that dents easily. It has marketing type of printing on the backside that pertains to vol. 7 only, and the DVD cases stack inside one on top of the other. The spines of the cases are not visible when you open the box, only the front of the last case you put in. So you have to take all the cases out of the tin to get to a specific volume. There’s also not room for the cardboard sleves that the DVD’s were in when you got the individual volumes, and no room for the soundtrack CD’s either. All said, I was disappointed with the box. Because of it’s odd dimensions it doesn’t stack in well with my DVD library. I would have much preferred the normal five sided box that usually comes with DVD sets.

Overall I’d say it’s worth it to buy volumes 3, 6 and 7 new to get the shirts if they interest you and pick up the others used if you can to save some money on the series. That is if you’re interested in the DTS soundtrack options. I much prefer the DTS mixes to Dolby Digital and wanted the soundtrack CD’s as well. Also the cardboard boxes that come with volumes 3 and 6 are better than the tin box to store your set in when you complete the series, if you stack them on shelves one row of DVD’s on top of another row, and you can fit the movies into those boxes as well to fill them the rest of the way.

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I am a die-hard S&TC fan. I absolutely LOVE the show - and will definitely buy the 6th season disks - but COME ON!!! Haven’t we (S&TC fans) shelled out enough dough for this show. Not only do we have to pay just to watch the show, but we buy the merchandise as well. The fifth season was ok - but full price for an 8 episode season? And now they’re breaking the 6th season in 2 releases and charging full price for both? HBO - thy greed runneth over - WAY over!

I just want to state that I am one of the biggest sex and the city fans you’ll meet, but I cannot believe that HBO is splitting season 6 up just so that they can charge us twice as much! I haven’t even gotten myself to buy season 5 yet, and I’ll probably hold off on buying this one as well. Yes, this is one of the best shows that has ever been on television, but considering the dvds have absolutely no special features and HBO is going to be showing every episode again in the upcoming months, I think I’ll probably just be taping the episodes and saving myself $65.

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For some reason, I always thought this movie took place in New York, but seeing it recently, and seeing the scene where the boys ride around Daley Plaza, I realized it takes place in Chicago. Pretty sad considering I grew up just north of Chicago and a few famous landmarks are visibly present within a number of scenes.

Anyway, Clifford Peache (Chris Makepeace) has a problem besides his really bad mushroomed shaped harido. Having just transferred from a private to public school, Clifford has run afoul of a gang of toughs, led by Moody (Matt Dillon) whose main source of income is extorting money from kids under the premise of protection from another kid, Ricky Linderman (Alec Baldwin). See, legend has it that Ricky, a boy larger than most, has done all kinds of things from killing a kid, raping a teacher, to shooting a cop. Moody and his gang claim to provide protection from Ricky, but, really, they are only providing protection against themselves, because not paying Moody would result in a beating from Moody or any of his cronies. Clifford angers Moody and his goons by refusing to pay, which results in all kinds of harassment.

Clifford, seeing that even the bullies are afraid of Ricky, approaches Ricky to try and make a deal to get him to be his bodyguard. Ricky agrees initially, but backs out as Clifford tries to learn more about Ricky, about his past and why he’s so feared. I’ve noticed some reviewers have tried to infer some sort of burgeoning homoerotic relationship between these two characters, but I really didn’t see it. It’s sad that two male characters in a movie can’t develop a close friendship without some people labeling it as something other than what it is…I actually found that notion a little offensive and silly as this is a charming little movie that portrays one boy, who shut nearly shut everything out after a tragic event opening up to a friend. In the end, the boys develop a friendship, but also get more in that Clifford learns how to stand up for himself and Ricky seems to come to terms with a past event that isolated him and made him feared throughout the school.

Look for appearances by Martin Mull, Ruth Gordon, Joan Cusack, John Houseman, George Wendt, Tim Kazurinsky, and Jennifer Beals. The movie is presented in full screen and wide screen formats, and looks really good. The audio is solid, but there are English subtitles if needed. One of the many things I appreciated about this movie was the use of real teenagers to portray teens on the screen. It really annoys me seeing some twenty something being passed off as a high school student as seems fairly common nowadays. Also, it seemed the entire movie was shot on location in Chicago, rather than on a soundstage, providing a bit of a gritty, realistic feel. This was a nice, subtle touch that served to make a great movie that much better. Overall, an excellent movie I would recommend to most anyone.

It’s a commentary on the Year 2001 (and not a pleasant one) that My Bodyguard, made in 1980, now seems almost as old-fashioned as Boy’s Town. Sure, an occasional curse word crosses the lips of the teen characters in this movie, and boogers and toilets are mentioned in passing. But even the school bully isn’t a sex-crazed moron, and no one is shown doing distasteful things to mice, apple pies or hair mousse. It’s just the sweet, likable story of Clifford Peache, a nice, smart kid bullied by a nasty school clique led by the loathsome Melvin Moody, and Ricky Linderman, the hulking loner with a violent reputation whom Clifford hires to protect him from Moody and his thugs. Clifford and Linderman become pals, Clifford learns Linderman’s dark secret, and both learn a great deal from each other about friendship and courage when Moody tries to double-cross them. That’s all there is to the movie, except for a subplot about Clifford’s harried hotel-manager father (Martin Mull) and raffish grandmother (Ruth Gordon). It’s no masterpiece, but it is pleasant and surprisingly memorable, thanks largely to the touchingly real performances of the teen stars. Adam Baldwin, who made his film debut here, is outstanding as Linderman; why he hasn’t had a better subsequent career is utterly beyond me. I also have no idea why Chris Makepeace’s career was essentially over by 1985. Only Matt Dillon has had a real star career–undoubtedly because he was the only one with leading-man looks. Director Tony Bill makes good use of the Chicago locations, and Joan Cusack also had her film debut here in a small role.

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In the DVD’s delightfully lurid cover art, a shadowy killer strangles a young blonde whose aroused breasts poke through her underwear. An ancient city burns red in the distance. The text promises “a macabre tale of murder at an all-girls school.” In fact, it’s fun tale of murder at an all-girls school. This Italian whodunnit from 1968 is more Agatha Christy than Mario Bava (who wrote some of the story). Charming performances from the young cast, especially the British actress Sally Smith as a Nancy Drew wannabe. Michael Rennie wanders through as an inspector. In Italian, first time in the States in an uncut version. “Naked You Die” is the translation of the Italian title. In the States, AIP hacked 15 minutes out of the film and dubbed it “The Young, the Evil and the Savage,” which pretty much sums up nothing. Worth seeing for the opening nude bathtube slaying alone.

This flick from 1968 is a decent giallo thriller. In which a black gloved killer is on the loose at a girlschool. The violence in this would be comparable to any movie that came before. Although there is nudity, which a American movie would have never allowed, and of course Mario bava helped write the story. But his movies were even a few years earlier just a little more explicit in their violence. The story is a decent

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giallo story that takes place in a girlsschool. If you like murder mysteries from europe and giallo thrillers and don’t the expect wild frenzied

action and sleazier nudity of giallos from 1970 onward, then you will like this flick. . This movie reminded me a good mystery flick from Alfred Hitchcock. And it has the excellent Michael Rennie as the lead dectective. And the flick even has a cool 1960’s rock song theme. This is just a fun flick and it reminded me of how much I loved those british

mysteries like miss marple etc because they tell a good story, and have good acting in them as well.

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One examine that should be asked is - Why are there hardly any mafia films based in Italy? Distinct we have the Godfather series with its flashbacks of Sicily, but what about Italy? There are not many and certainly even the best of movie lovers will have pain trying to list one or two if any at all! So here you have one… and its generous!… in its believe very irregular unique scheme.

Contraband is a lost classic that has now been restored here on this DVD. What happens when the world’s foremost gore director decides to perform a crime caper? Acknowledge - more blood than Al Pacino can shoot up in all his gangster flicks save together. Although the site is mostly non-existent and certainly there is shrimp here in terms of brains, there is plenty of action and awe to boot.

Basically the situation revolves around several smuggler gang families from Naples all snubbing each other out in the worst possible intention imaginable… and that is all there is it to it really.

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Everything on prove here is resplendent pointless but it is not done badly at all and the acting is a shrimp better than what you would inquire. There are several gore scenes that stand out - a woman getting her face torched to stout melt, a gangster having his head machine gunned to pieces, a mob leader having his throat blown off, plenty backs of the heads flying across the room, cops racy nuns, horses burning up, mobsters getting boiled alive, gangster shot up in church, a vicious rape sequence, intestines being shot out and lots of screaming - all done to the tune of a funky eighties disco beat that is more righteous for a …movie. No Sir, you will not accumulate this one playing on television any time soon.

If gangsters, guns and gore is your thing then you’ll savor it, but don’t procure this expecting the cinematic flair of what Hollywood has done with this genre.

One of Fulci’s most under-rated movies, CONTRABAND (aka - THE SMUGGLER) also holds the honour of being his most mean-spirited and bloodthirsty movie besides Current YORK RIPPER. The standard situation takes on Mafia bootleggers vs. a perfumed French drug racketeer (THE FRENCH CONNECTION’s Marcel Bozzuffi at his most villainous) .

With its’ fight/chase scenes, brilliantly catchy cheesy disco secure, foul-mouthed dialogue, and hundreds of spent bullet casings, the movie rides on the coat-tails of the then-popular Eurocrime genre. It’s how vicious the film gets that really sets it apart - someone is boiled in an acid pool, another guy’s head is machine-gunned to pieces, a pusher’s face is blowtorched into a molten mess, and there’s a nearly unwatchable sodomy scene that precedes RIPPER’s atrocious razor torture scene.

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The only loyal drawback is that the first half-hour is a bit of a run, but once it starts to procure challenging (with the well-staged assassination of Testi’s brother), it doesn’t let up from there.

Well acted and assured, Fulci demonstrates a confident hand in the action scenes and it’s a shame he didn’t delve more into this genre.

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CHAPPAQUA, winner of the 1966 Venice Silver Lion, is a cinematic slice of ’60’s avant-garde, with director Conrad Rooks in the main role of this semi-autobiographical tale told mostly in dramatic, shifting, cinema verite images with sparse dialogue. Such famous figures as William S. Burroughs(addict-author of NAKED LUNCH), poet Allen Ginsberg, guru Swami Satchidanda, et al, drift in & out of the planes of consciousness depicted in this struggle for escape from the torments of alcoholism and drug experimentation & addiction. I actually bought this video for the soundtrack, which came out on vinyl in 1968 with great fanfare but has not yet been released on CD. Most of the music was composed and played by Ravi Shankar, who also appears in the movie. The score is an excellent fusion of Indian ragas and talas with Western jazz. Others heard and seen in the movie (that are not on the original LP) include Ornette Coleman and the Fugs. The cinematography is excellent, extremely imaginative and varied, with international, on-location shots of many of the popular hip & religious spots of 1965-66. Much of the style in CHAPPAQUA, particularly the way that numerous philosophical and dramatic ideas are presented visually, original in its day, was later emulated by other directors, such as Roger Corman (THE TRIP)and Peter Fonda (EASY RIDER). CHAPPAQUA is a definitive weird ride through a wild time in history played out in psychological drama with few words. If you experienced that era (as I did), you’ll see it like it was. If you didn’t, this is the next best thing to being there — and a whole lot safer. But fasten your seatbelt anyway…

The film follows the mental journey of an addict as he checks himself into a drug rehab clinic in europe to overcome his dependence on drugs and alcohol. The film is basically one hallucination after another which may appeal to those who enjoy this sort of thing. The film is, in parts, fascinating to watch, especially the ‘vampire’ sequence. The appearance of Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs add to the ’sixties drug addict’ feel of the film as well. Recommended to those who enjoy something different.

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I have only seen the first two episodes of this disc and it was subtitled. Well including the first 3 english DVD’s. This one gives you exactly what you would quiz, the bandits attack Kanna Village with impressive numbers, but the samurai and villagers repell the attack in the first episode. In the second the Samurai lay a trap and let them selves be captured. All and all theres alot of action, tale line flows dazzling well and the chars are likeable. Katshiro the inexperienced of the samurai becomes grand more then a sniveling wanna be and shows what he can really do as well in the second episode. If your in to the series dont close its definitly worth it for this disc. I hope this review helped.

Every time I say to my son, “We got another Samurai 7 disk, lets go witness it,” he shouts with glee. This is a series we both gaze forward to with all earnestness.

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Any why not? Not only are the characters extremely well fleshed out but the individual conflicts that each of them go through is where the heart of this sage truly lies.

In this disk we finally win to peek a battle between Kanna Village (Fortress) and the bandits. It is substantial from beginning to demolish and leave you wanting more.

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In Sarah Jane Smith’s last adventure with the Doctor, she goes through a bit in the first two episodes. One, she is buried under a pile of rubble, when she and the Doctor accidentally stray near a quarry that is been dynamited. Two, she is possessed by a strange fossilized hand that is uncovered during said blasting that leads her to say “Eldrad must live.” Three, she has lots of fun going around firing a blue light from a ring at anyone who tells her to stop. And four, are you ready for this… she locks herself and the hand in the outer chamber of the radioactive core at the Nunton Power Complex. I’ve heard of A Boy And His Dog, but A Girl And Her Hand? Hmm… But as Liz Sladen (Sarah) was with the series for three seasons, script-editor Robert Holmes thus made that part of the story central to Sarah.

The Doctor hypothesizes that the hand, originating from a silicon-based lifeform, is alive and is using radiation to regenerate itself. That does explain why Sarah comes out of the radiation chamber alive and well despite being exposed to enough radiation to kill a school of whales. But who or what is Eldrad?

There is a scene when the director of Nunton, Professor Watson, phones his wife and tells her in a calm voice that he may be delayed. He lies that there is nothing wrong and to kiss the children for him. This is when it looks like the facility might undergo meltdown. At the end of the call, his expression is one having resigned to the fact that he might well die before the day is over. This is Glyn Houston’s best part in his role as Watson.

The crystalline costume for Eldrad is quite a beaut, which is clearly a blue-gray body suit with crystals and metal pieces attached to resemble a clump of jewels at various points. Judith Paris’s portrayal of Eldrad retains the alien nature of this being, down to the voice. As Eldrad has been an alien exiled from Kastria and sentenced to obliteration, something that didn’t succeed, the obsession of paranoia, in not trusting people, is well-acted. And the sight of a hand moving by itself isn’t something one sees everyday. As Sarah says, “Careful, that’s not as ‘armless as it looks.” Harmless, armless,… right.

The one thing that may throw fans is the farewell between the Doctor and one of his longest traveling companions. In contrast to the Third Doctor being shattered when Jo leaves him, here, the Fourth Doctor’s not too emotional goodbye is a bit questionable. Then again, Tom Baker and Liz Sladen reworked that part of the dialogue themselves, so who knows?

The scenes in the nuclear plant, mainly episodes 2 and 3, are the bright points of The Hand Of Fear, as it’s fast-moving and tense. Indeed, location filming was done at the Oldbury Nuclear Power Station in Avon, where the people there were enthusiastic in helping out the production team. Things slow down in the last episode, but it’s an all right story.

With the 10th Doctor’s reunion with companion Sarah Jane Smith and K-9 in 2006’s “SCHOOL REUNION” Releasing Sarah’s final adventure with the 4th Doctor (Tom Baker) as 1976’s Hand of Fear ends with a touching and surprisingly warm departure as the Doctor and Sarah part company. It’s no accident that the new series sought out her return, SJS, the plucky journalist portrayed by Elisabeth Sladen is one of the best-loved companions, leastwise before ROSE TYLER’s appearance. First appearing as a women’s libber in the 3rd Doctor’s Time Warrior, in which she mistakes him for a malevolent traitor. SJS was introduced as a strong character that wasn’t going to need the Doctor’s rescuing, much like Rose, although invariably evolving into a character that needed the Doctor’s rescuing anyway. Sarah’s met the first 5 Doctor’s in “The 5 Doctors,” she’s had a X-mas special with K-9 ( a Christmas present from the Doctor, K-9 & Company) and word is that a children’s spin-off is now in the works for the pair.

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After the Doctor and Sarah Jane mistakenly land in a present-day (70’s) quarry (an amusing location considering all the quarry filled alien worlds presented over the years) and the pair are caught up in an explosion. Sarah is rushed to hospital, clutching a stone hand . But when the hand possesses Sarah’s mind, a chain reaction begins, resulting in a confrontation on the frozen planet of Kastria.

This story arc is typical of Tom Baker’s Doctor, the affection that the Doctor and Sarah have for one another really bring together the episode. Both over the top portrayals of the power-hungry and paranoid Eldrad are very memorable as are the mind-zapped catch-phrase “Eldrad must live!”

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I managed to find this a few days before its official release date and am happy to report that it finally gives this classic film the treatment it deserves. The video and audio have been restored from orignal source material with noticeable improvements over the previous DVD transfer. The picture has none of the scratches and dust that were present on the earlier version, and there is a Dolby stereo option as well as the original mono. The stereo soundtrack offers greater clarity and depth and there’s no low-level hum or hiss.

Besides offering a major improvement in the quality of the image and sound, the new DVD also includes a good selection of extras. There’s a 25 minute “Backstory” from AMC that is very informative and entertaining. There are two separate commentary tracks, one with Celeste Holm, Christopher Mankiewicz (Joseph’s son), and Kenneth Geist, the other with Sam Staggs, author of “All About ‘All About Eve’”. There are
promotional interviews with Davis and Baxter, four newsreels, a trailer, and a restoration comparison.

The restoration comparison is one of the strangest that I’ve seen. Instead of an audio track explaining the problems and processes involved in the transfer, there’s a series of screens with text printed on them. There then follows a series of comparisons from various versions of the film. There’s nothing really wrong with any of this, but considering the huge amount of time and effort that goes into a restoration of this magnitude, I expected something a bit more dynamic.

For any “All About Eve” fan, old or new, this is the DVD we have been waiting for, and at five dollars less than the original DVD, a real bargain.

Highly recommended!

Bette Davis made this movie in 1950 when her career was faltering;her last film was the insipid “Beyond the Forest” (now considered a minor camp classic by some.) “All About Eve” is relished by many who hail it as Davis’s all-time greatest performance(which is,in all fairness, arguable) as the forty year old magnetic actress Margo Channing.Many also feel Davis never looked better than she does here (her costume designer for this was the legendary Edith Head).The acting is genuinely excellent and the screenplay is music to the ears;as a consolation for not winning the AA,(it went to Judy Holliday)Davis received the coveted New York Film Critics Award for Best Actress.George Sanders is peerless as the poison pen critic Addison De Witt;( he won the academy award for best supporting actor.) Thelma Ritter is hilarious as the wise old companion of Margo’s who’s seen it all happen before. Celeste Holm gives an absolutely sparkling performance as Karen Richards(she tells Eve “I’m the lowest form of celebrity” she being the wife of playwright Lloyd Richards(Hugh Marlowe,whose wooden personality suits the role he plays.)Gregory Ratoff’s timing in the “bicarbonate of soda” scene is amazing and Gary Merrill is right on as the cynical Bill whose age (32) creates insecurity for Margo; she fears she’ll lose him to some young “babe”.The film holds up extremely well,considering it will be 50 years old next year.Marilyn Monroe has an amusing bit as a “Graduate of the Copacabana School of Dramatic Arts” Finally we come to the gal who played the “little worm” of the title: Anne Baxter.She is astonishingly straightforward and realistic in her interpretation of the louse;if she seems to be a bit on the drab side, it’s only because she’s underplaying to the “Queen Mother”, studying and using her idol as a stepping stone in order to get her name in electric lights and reign supreme as a Lady of the Theatre; in other words, she’s diabolical as HELL! If you’ve never seen this movie, you’re in for a treat. If you have’nt seen the DVD version do so;the print is crystal clear and adds immensely to the film’s viewing pleasure.This is Mankiewicz’s masterpiece and it won the Oscar for the Best Picture of 1950.

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The sixth season of FX’s The Shield can be considered the penultimate season of the gritty crime drama. Beginning with the aftermath of Lem’s (Kenny Johnson) death, Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis) swears vengeance, unbeknownst to him that his partner Shane (Walton Goggins) is responsible. In the meantime, Vic faces a forced retirement, more so when younger, possibly brasher detective Kevin Hiatt (Moonlight’s Alex O’Loughlin) is brought onto the Strike Team as Vic’s successor. With Kavanaugh (Forest Whitaker) still lurking in the shadows and still trying to bring Vic down once and for all, things reach a boiling point as Vic comes closer and closer to learning the truth, and the reprecussions that come and are going to come in the upcoming final season. Other plot developments of this season include Claudette (CCH Pounder) adjusting to an illness, Dutch (Jay Karnes) in developments that you won’t see coming, Aceveda (Benito Martinez) once again forming an uneasy alliance with Vic, and Shane offering his services to the daughter of an Armenian mob boss (Franka Potente) which he comes to regret. While the sixth season of The Shield offers nothing that hasn’t been done on the show before, it is still an ever-compelling television experience that you can’t get on network TV. The main cast is still good, and while Forest Whitaker doesn’t stick around nearly as long as he did on the previous season, both he and Franka Potente provide for wonderful guest stars. All in all, when watching this season of The Shield, one can tell that the end is indeed near, and what develops next may very well prove that this series will go out with quite a bang.

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.

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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.

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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.