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I discovered Alex O'Loughlin on Moonlight and have since collected all of his work on DVD - TV and movies. He is outstanding as Det. Kevin Hiatt, and outshines the rest of the cast. His portrayal of Kevin is exciting, his american accent is impeccable, as are all of his accents (as most know, Alex is Australian and has a very strong accent in his "real" life), and he is oh, so sexy. You just don't get much sexier than his infamous "chair scene" on this DVD.
He left The Shield for Moonlight in 2007, and now we have those 16 wonderful episodes on DVD. Do yourself a favor and buy this DVD and the rest of Alex's work on DVD. I am looking forward to his new work coming out in 2009, including a guest starring role on Criminal Minds on 4/29/09, and he is now filming a pilot for a series in which he portrays an organ transplant doctor, "Three Rivers". It should be picked up as a series for the 2009 fall season. His movie "WhiteOut" premieres on 9/25/09. Bottom line - buy this DVD and anything you can find with Alex O'Loughlin - you will be so glad that you did!
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Great season, lots to hate and satisfying resolutions, please tell me there's more to come
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I did watch The Shield on FX. It was good. The story keeps moving. What I really like about the sixth season is when they brought in Alex O'Loughlin. I love his acting. Even though The Shield is good it just seems better with Alex in it. It is to bad he was not in the seventh season.
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The three stars are solely the arithmetic mean of a five-star show and a one-star DVD. I was excited before watching this DVD because it is the first DVD release of The Shield series released in the U.S in wide-screen format. I am not sure whether this transer is real-wide screen or simply 4:3 ratio cropped, and don't want to speculate about it. But I simply found the transfer not as good as the previous five seasons released by Fox. The transfers contain a significantly more amount of grain than the Fox releases which were consistently very high in quality. As a side gripe, the optional subtitles for the hearing impaired now have thicker fonts (and are yellow as opposed to white in previous seasons) and take up more screen space--a minor annoyance. By the way, Scene Selections and Play the Episode without Episode Recap options are also gone. That's right, no scene selections! It is likely that Sony doesn't see these DVDs as a cash cow like some other TV shows and therefore most likely produced this set on a much tighter budget than Fox did--probably same reason Fox sold the DVD rights to Sony in the first place. As a big Shield fan though, I find this kind of move unfortunate. Let's hope that Sony will do a better job for the Season 7 release.
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This is one of the best TV shows & I bought this season for my mom for a great price.
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