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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396250307
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 75
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledPortugueseSubtitledSpanishSubtitledSpanishDubbed
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
MPN: 25030
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Running Time: 498 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
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Product Description:
"Conscience is a killer" is the catchphrase that made season 5 of The Shield the most intense season of the series to date. These 11 tightly scripted episodes comprise the first half of a 21-episode arc with series creator Shawn Ryan referring to the sixth season (broadcast in 2007) as "Season 5.1." This is The Shield at its finest culminating in a climactic 11th episode ("Postpartum") that ricochets the series toward a complex range of dramatic complications. Jumping the shark? Not a chance pal--not when you've got soon-to-be Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker in his outstanding guest-star role as Det. John Kavanaugh the upright tormented Internal Affairs cop determined to destroy Det. Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis) and his corrupt LAPD Strike Team. As Kavanaugh mounts an obsessive campaign to reveal Mackey's shameful secrets conscience is a killer in the Strike Team's midst: Ronnie (David Rees Snell) maintains a stoical voice of reason but as Mackey recruits (and seduces) a savvy lawyer (Laura Harring) to defend against Kavanaugh's harassment Curtis "Lemonhead" Lemansky (Kenneth Johnson never better) desperately protects the Strike Team with a sacrificial gambit that provokes Shane (Walton Goggins) to commit a crime that's both shockingly tragic and dramatically ingenious since it forcefully propels The Shield toward a bold and unpredictable future.System Requirements:Running Time: 546 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC: 043396250307 Manufacturer No: 25030
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
I love all their seasons and this one dissapointed me a little bit. Besides the fact that is was too short the back and forths are very passive. But it is something that happends when most shows get to season like 5 6 7....they should just stop while they have good reviews....
Rating:  -
The Shield is a great series where you'll soon find yourself supporting the bad guys
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Simply the best police series on TV and this season is certainly the best so far. The writers and the actors are pure talent here. Just amazing.
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As much as I like actor Forest Whitaker, the man mumbles too much. His enunciation is often poor and unclear. You absolutely HAVE to watch his scenes in this season with the subtitles on. What good is it to be a fine actor if no one can understand you when you speak?
So as for this Season 5 DVD -- great season, good story arcs. But you will need to use the subtitle track to understand Lt. Jon Kavanaugh's lines.
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Since this has been out for a while, and if you're researching season 5, hopefully you've already seen the 4 before it, I'll make it short.
I've seen every episode of The Shield, and the finale of this season is one of the best episodes of TV - of ANY show - that I've ever seen.
I think it's the second best season (second only to season 1) that this show has ever had.
If you're a fan of the show, what are you waiting for?
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