The Shield season 6 DVDs pick up right where the finale from season 5 left off. Lem is dead... and Shane killed him! Of course, Vic Mackey doesn't know this, and he has vowed to hunt down and kill whoever did this to his friend without mercy. You'll have to buy season 6 of The Shield DVDs right here if you want to see how this conflict gets resolved, and how the final season of the show is set up.
Of course, this isn't the only issue affecting the Strike Team... there's never only one thing, is there? Kavanaugh is recklessly trying to bring down the team, and has propelled himself into a one-way path of destruction, taking drastic measures to try to get Mackey locked up. Will it succeed, or what will stop him?
Claudette is running the barn, and with the Strike Team in shambles, a new guy is brought in who will eventually replace Vic, who is going to be forced to retire. But Vic leaving the police force... that won't happen without a fight.
The sixth season of The Shield on DVD is another classic, and when you're done with it you'll be ready to dive into the final season of the series. Whether you just want to re-watch everything for pure entertainment, or you've never seen them before, the Shield season 6 DVDs will be a fantastic addition to your personal collection.
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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.
The Shield doesn't step aside, it steps up
Review Date: August 22, 2008
Reviewer: ~LEON~, UK
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.
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.
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.
Great set up for the last season
Review Date: August 22, 2008
Reviewer: Eric J. Schlueter, MA
In Season 6, this fantastic show does a great job setting the viewers up for what will surely be a truly shocking end to a truly great gritty cop drama.
First, the plotlines. Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis) is going to be forcibly retired. But before he goes, he is determined to find out who killed fellow Strike Team Member, Lem (Kenneth Johnson). Menawhile Shane (Walton Goggins) is falling into a downward spirl, from which he may never climb out. His guilt over his actions, plus trying to keep his family safe and Vic in the dark, has him acting irrational (joining up with Franka Potente and the Armenian mob) and even suicidal (watch the scene when he locks himself in a room with an armed hostage taker). Meanwhile, Claudette (CCH Pounder) finds herself under fire from her superiors. And when the "big crime of the season" happens (the San Marcos murders, a slughter of 12 Hispanic people in a hotel), the case takes all sorts of twists and turns. Once again, Aceveda and Vic need to form an uneasy alliance to save Mackey's job, solve the murders, and save Aceveda's future political career.
But the best part of this season is the character changes that happen with a lot of the key players. Lt. Kavanugh (a brilliant Forest Whittaker) becomes everything that he spent his career fighting. Vic becomes an out of control man, hell bent on only one thing, revenge. Claudette uses Vic-like tactics to not only salvage her job, but to put an end to Vic's reign at the barn, bringing in Hiatt (Alex O'Laughlin) to replace him. And make sure you catch the scene with Dutch and Danny in the finale. Season 6 is a polarizing change for the characters. And for the most part, the changes are amazing to witness.
The only problem, as another reviewer put it, is that the stroies seem to slow down some towards the later part of the season, mainly because of the uncertainty that there would be a season 7. I'm glad they decided to give it one last hurrah.
Vic Mackey is probably the greatest anti-hero created for television. I can only imagine how this will all end for him. Be sure to check FX networks website for interviews with the cast. Some good stuff there.
Just like this DVD set.
Alex O'Loughlin as Kevin Hiatt Shines!
Review Date: April 7, 2009
Reviewer: MichaelC2B,
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!
Shield 6 is available
Review Date: July 14, 2008
Reviewer: Bruce D. Nibbs, Hobart, Tasmania Australia
For those who cant wait season six is available on amazon.co.uk. a multi zone dvd will play them. It is also on sale at half price.
The end is near...