Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #432 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-06-08
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Subtitled in: English, French, Arabic, Hindi
• Number of discs: 4
• Running time: 594 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
It might not have enjoyed the fanfare of some, but across seven seasons, The Shield has emerged as one of the finest cop dramas that US TV has produced. It’s not quite The Wire, but it’s got plenty of its own to recommend it anyway.

This boxset features the seventh and final season of The Shield, and it once more has as its centrepiece Michael Chiklis as Vic Mackey. Mackey is a brilliant creation, a hard-edged cop who, you could politely say, works in the grey areas to get the job done. Naturally, there are consequences to this, and season seven has the impact of Mackey’s ways spread right across it.

It all particularly comes to a head in the episodes that bring The Shield to a close, and these prove to be the highlight of a very strong final season. There’s no chance it’s going to be spoiled here, but believe what people have been saying: the ending to The Shield is flat-out brilliant, and a fitting testament to the quality of what’s gone before. It’s three-dimensional drama of real substance.

It’s sad to see The Shield come to the end of its journey, but it leaves us with a complete, rounded, gritty and uncompromising drama, that surely will win a growing fanbase as more and more discover it on DVD. And season seven? It’s hard to think of a better send off for the show… ---Jon Foster

DVD Description
The final season of this gritty, hard-hitting, award-winning cop drama comes to DVD offering impressive and engrossing performances from the cast. This season, Vic's relationship with Shane is put to the test as they work against each other to bring down the Armenian mob. Dutch plays hardball to get a homicide witness to come forward. The Strike Team tries to rescue a drug kingpin's daughter, and Vic is pressured to take down Pezuela, leading him to seek an immunity deal for him and Ronnie in exchange for them helping ICE take down Beltran.

Episode information

• Ep 701 Commentary with Michael Chiklis, Guy Ferland, Kurt Sutter and Jay Karnes
• 701-1 Aramboles Thrown In The Trunk (Optional Commentary)
• 701-2 A Big Chunk (Optional Commentary)
• 701-3 Zadofian Makes A Deal With Ronnie (Optional Commentary)
• 701-4 Wearing Wires Is Pussy S**t (Optional Commentary)
• 701-5 Extended Army Surplus Shoot-Out (Optional Commentary)
• 701-6 Dutch, Claudette, Encardi Compliment Billings (Optional Commentary)
• 701-7 Dutch arrests Emilio & Hector (Optional Commentary)
• Ep 702 Commentary with Adam Fierro, Shawn Ryan, Lisa Randolph.
• 702-1 Carlson Calls Vic (Optional Commentary)
• 702-2 Vic & Ronnie Check In With Claudette (Optional Commentary)
• 702-3 Masses Enter The Barn (Optional Commentary)
• Ep 703 Commentary with Kevin Cremin, Shawn Ryan, Craig Yahata, Jacque Gravett and Paula Garces
• 703-1 Dutch Tells Claudette About Wan (Optional Commentary)

Synopsis
Transgressing the seemingly rock-solid boundaries of regular television programming, THE SHIELD refuses the strictures of black-and-white depictions of clear-cut moral dilemmas in favour 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 L.A. district of Farmington, employing dubious but effective crime fighting methods as a tough, successful, but corrupt cop. The other detectives and cops on the force disapprove of the team's methods, while the precinct head, Captain David Aceveda (Benito Martinez), is just as corrupt as Mackey. The stoic, upright Detective Claudette Wyms (CCH Pounder, ER), 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 the controversial themes and violent nature of the content manage the effect of making audiences really think about what they're watching. Features the seventh series of the show.

Customer Reviews

"Vic led, but I kept following, we made each other into something worse than our individual selves. I wish I'd never met him"
The brutally raw and powerful words uttered in the final episode of the equally raw and powerful seventh season of The Shield. After seven long years Vic an co. reach the end of the road; what a journey its been.

Picking up where season six left off Vic and Acevada hold an uneasy truce between them with the blackmail box in their possession. With Vic's forced retirement hearing looming ever closer he desperately hatches a plan to bring down Pezuela, to gain some significant creditability. The plan quickly becomes an entangled web drawing the Mexicans and Armenian's into a gang war as the FBI become involved. Vic and Ronnie must also contend with working with Shane again, while Claudette works to bring Mackey down as the situation quickly goes from bad to worse.

The final season sees the slow escalation of events, as all the ugly truths of the past seven years come up to the surface. Mixed in with the everyday cases of 'the Barn' season seven paints a vivid picture of scope and scale.

Michael Chiklis has always been fantastic as Vic Mackey and this season is no exception, from dealing with Shane to his daughter coming off the rails, we see Chiklis is a tremendously skilled actor; giving a tour de force performance of a man desperately clinging on to what little he has left.

Walton Goggins likewise gives an outstanding performance, particularly in the latter half of the season, where we see Shane crumbling and truly on the edge. Racked by regret and self loathing the performance proves to be truly captivating.

David Rees Snell's character Ronny has become more and more important with each passing season and the final season he proves to be an integral part. Dutch and Billings still bicker endlessly and prove some of the lighter moments of the season, Claudette struggles with her illness and her bond with Dutch is as compelling as ever. Julian, Tina and Danny are sadly relegated for most of the season, not playing a major role in the overall story, it would have been nice to seen more of them but sadly not.

The final episode "family meeting" is one of, if not the best, endings I have seen for any TV show. The final episode is The Shield at its very best, strong character driven performances and razor sharp exchanges; providing some truly unforgettable moments. The title's full bearing, apparent midway through, is all the more horrifying and hard hitting, Ronnie's and Vic's final scene is perhaps my favourite moment of the episode, with spot on performances from all the cast. And for Mackey himself? Just desserts? not quite. I wont spoil it but suffice to say the final scene devoid of any dialogue sums up the last seven years and their consequences perfectly. A truly unforgettable conclusion.

As the credits roll we are treated to photos of the past seven years, reflecting on the long road of The Shield. The show couldn't ask for a better conclusion as one of the best TV dramas ever draws to a close.

It's been one hell of a ride.

"I've done worse"
I've been lucky enough to watch the final 13 episodes via the 'States' and I wasnt disappointed, in fact, this final season 7 made the series for me become on a par with both The Sopranos and The Wire. The finale episode and the penultimate episode 12 are probably the most superbly written, amazingly acted (Chiklis has never been better and thats saying something!), tragic, emotional, violent and best of all a fitting end for all concerned of any TV Show I have ever witnessed. Will Vic, Shane and Ronnie pay for their previous 6seasons of sins? I promise you'll find out for sure in this season. Simply brilliant. I agree with everything the first reviewer said in his brilliant review of the season. My own personal favourite moment (without spoiling) - Vic and a certain conversation/meeting he has with the Federal Agent Lady, when he starts laughing almost at his own realization of just what sort of man he is.

`END OF AN ERA...VIC AND THE CREW WILL BE MISSED`
just watched the final episode, of the final season, of ( beyond brilliant)`THE SHIELD`.No other tv show is in the same league (probably never will be).7 seasons of heart pumping mind games,pure edge of your seat adrenalin rush from season 1 to season 7.Watching the strike team`s worlds fall apart,the final episode (double) leaves you breathless... and gutted. VIC,SHANE and RONNIE put in excellent performences from day one, and just got better and better.i cant leave out `CLAUDETTE and `DUTCH` just brilliant together...