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the DVD NOW - Release Date Feb 22 2005
Transgressing the seemingly rock-solid
boundaries of regular television programming, THE
SHIELD DVD refuses the strictures of black and white depictions of
clear-cut moral dilemmas in favor of an ambiguity that will challenge even
the most jaded viewers. Detective Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis, THE COMMISH)
leads the elite Strike Team in the fictional LA district of Farmington. He
employs dubious but effective crime fighting methods as a tough,
effective, but corrupt cop. The other detectives and cops on the force
disapprove of the Team's methods, to say the least, while the precinct
head, Captain David Aceveda (Benito Martinez, ) is just as corrupt as
Mackey, but his political aspirations lead him into a campaign to end the
detective's career. The Sheild DVD The stoic, upright Detective
Claudette Wyms (CCH Pounder ER, BOYCOTT), who understands both sides of
the game, provides a much needed balance and rationality to the mix. The
charismatic Mackey strikes just the right pitch so as to be the least
sympathetic antihero television has yet seen, while retaining his
audience, who refuses to write him off quite yet. Meanwhile, the
controversial themes and violent nature of the content manages the
effect--inconsistent at best in TV programming--of making audiences really
think about what they're watching.