The Unit: The Complete Third Season
by Bill L. Norton, Helen Shaver, James Whitmore Jr., Michael Zinberg, Seth Wiley
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Actor: Audrey Marie Anderson, Dennis Haysbert, Max Martini, Regina Taylor, Robert PatrickDirector: Bill L. Norton, Helen Shaver, James Whitmore Jr., Michael Zinberg, Seth Wiley
Brand: Fox
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 484 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-10-14
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Fox / MGM
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DVD Review: Starts strongly, then descends into hot garbage
Summary: 2 Stars
The first season of The Unit is some of the best stuff ever put on TV, especially the pilot: tough, no-nonsense action with rugged heroes and enough syrupy soap drama to keep the wives happy. The second season was in a few rare instances even better, with outstanding episodes like "Johnny B. Goode," "Kill Zone," and "In Loco Parentis."
It's with great sadness that I report the third season is, as my own senior drill sergeant would have said, "hot f-ing garbage." The season opens strongly, with the team split in the two part "Pandemonium." Blane sports a new look, and it even looks as though Dennis Haysbert has been hitting the gym for the role. The two-parter is just fantastic all around, with quick-pacing and solid writing. The episode "Five Brothers," in which one of the team is shockingly killed (and its follow-up where Blane goes renegade to deal out his own vengeance), is also high-tension, high-quality Unit action at its finest.
Then it just hits the floor and doesn't get back up. I'm not sure whether to blame the writers' strike, Eric Haney, or David Mamet, but the show just becomes awful. An atrocious new theme song, a weak alt-rock number, replaces the pitch-perfect previous main titles. The writing also becomes more ADHD than Robin Williams live comedy shows, with the Unit moving its focus from vaguely plausible missions in places like Afghanistan to wannabe-007 undercover garbage. Seriously? What set The Unit apart from other shows before was its relatively accurate portrayal of an elite infantry team and their action (like in the first season episode, "200th Hour," where you see the Unit killhouse). In moving away from this and moving more towards generic espionage adventures, the show's creators have lost what made The Unit special to begin with.
I haven't seen any of Season 4 yet, mostly because I have been busy with my own military training and prepping for Ranger School in the spring. But if it's continued the poor precedent established here, then put a fork in the Unit before it drags on and embarrasses itself like West Wing did after Aaron Sorkin left the show.
Seriously hot garbage.
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