The Shield (Season 2) DVD
20th Century Fox Home Video
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: TV Series
Length: 744 minutes
Director: Various
Year: (2003)
Britt Gillette's The Shield (Season 2) DVD Review
Nominated for 4 Emmys and 4 Golden Globes, including Best Television Series - Drama, The Shield is one of the top police dramas of the past decade. The brainchild of creator Shawn Ryan, writer for such hit shows as Nash Bridges (1996) and Angel (1999), The Shield made history in 2003 by becoming the first basic cable series to win a Golden Globe for Best Drama Series (in the past, only non-ad supported shows such as The Sopranos and Sex And The City have done so well). The hour-long drama boasts a strong, well-rounded cast who, along with the writers/producers, have managed to make The Shield the longest running series on the FX Network…
The Shield centers around an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where the lines between right and wrong are often blurred. An ongoing power struggle between a group of corrupt, yet effective, cops and their new boss, Capt. David Aceveda (Benito Martinez), remains the focal point of the show. Det. Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis, of The Commish) heads up an elite unit known as the Strike Team. An effective leader who bends the rules when they fit his aims, Mackey often butts heads with the by-the-book Aceveda who weighs his own political ambitions against the cost of bringing down Mackey and his associates. Veteran Det. Claudette Wyms (CCH Pounder, of ER) knows the ropes, admires Mackey, but also knows how to play sides of the game. For the 2005 season, Glenn Close - star of such films as The Natural (1984), Fatal Attraction (1987), and Air Force One (1997) - joined the cast as Capt. Monica Rawling. Together, this celebrated cast maintains an internal tension among themselves while carrying out a unified fight against the criminal element - a fight that keeps the streets of L.A. safe…
The Shield (Season 2) DVD features a number of exciting episodes including the season premiere "The Quick Fix" in which Vic searches feverishly for the whereabouts of his wife and children. In his absence, the Strike Team allows a shipment of cocaine into Farmington that turns out to be bad, prompting the team to enter Tijuana in search of the culprits. Meanwhile, Detectives Wyms and Wagenbach attempt to solve a series of gangland assaults… Other notable episodes from Season 2 include "Homewrecker" in which Mackey, Wyms, and Wagenbach investigate several murders at a women's shelter, and "Breakpoint" in which Mackey secretly works with Dutch and Claudette to uncover the whereabouts of a missing kid…
Below is a list of episodes included on The Shield (Season 2) DVD:
Episode 14 (The Quick Fix) Air Date: 01-07-2003
Episode 15 (Dead Soldiers) Air Date: 01-14-2003
Episode 16 (Partners) Air Date: 01-21-2003
Episode 17 (Carte Blanche) Air Date: 01-28-2003
Episode 18 (Greenlit) Air Date: 02-04-2003
Episode 19 (Homewrecker) Air Date: 02-11-2003
Episode 20 (Barnstormers) Air Date: 02-18-2003
Episode 21 (Scar Tissue) Air Date: 02-25-2003
Episode 22 (Co-Pilot) Air Date: 03-04-2003
Episode 23 (Coyotes) Air Date: 03-11-2003
Episode 24 (Inferno) Air Date: 03-18-2003
Episode 25 (Breakpoint) Air Date: 03-25-2003
Episode 26 (Dominoes Falling) Air Date: 04-01-2003
Britt Gillette
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Posted on 22 June 2005