The Unit - The Complete First Season
by David Mamet
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Actor: Audrey Marie Anderson, Dennis Haysbert, Max Martini, Regina Taylor, Robert PatrickDirector: David Mamet
Brand: Fox
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Spanish (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 564 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-09-19
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: 20th Century Fox
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Movie Review: Mamet TV--Never What You Expect
Summary: 5 Stars
David Mamet is no stranger to episodic TV. A couple seasons ago he wrote and directed an episode of The Shield, and in its final year he wrote and directed a Hill Street Blues episode. If you read what writer/directors like John Sayles say about directing television, you realize that television is, unlike film, not really a director's medium but a writer's medium. So the fact that Mamet, who has made himself into a quirky, often unpredictable filmmaker with movies as dissimilar as Things Change and Spartan and with a similar range of work in his scriptwriting ( The Verdict to The Edge to Ronin, not to mention his adaptations of his own plays), directs a few episodes of The Unit should not overly excite us: the fact, however, that Mamet is the mastermind and chief sensibility behind this show should. Adapted from a well written and exciting memoir by Eric L. Haney (who also is a producer of the series) called Inside Delta Force, The Unit is Mamet in his genre-busting, most thought-provoking mode, much as he was in the underrated Spartan and little seen Homicide. On one hand, The Unit is drenched in machismo and quite impressive action, as this small band of terrorist busting Delta operators zip across the world, meeting any threat to the US with steely-eyed toughness and unwavering intent. Simultaneously there is the story of the families on the home front, wives mostly, who end up taking care of most of the family business as their husbands are on 24 hour a day call to go where the bad guys are. On the surface this is what CBS does best: straightforward, simple minded action television, in the great tradition of JAG and NCIS. But this is a Mamet and co-producer Shawn Ryan effort, and like Mamet's quirkier movies and Ryan's The Shield, this show plays with the very conventions it dispenses. What happens when the arms dealer you have to take down is guarded by an army of children ("Eating The Young")? Or when you become a wanted terrorist yourself when your mission in a friendly country is suddenly scraped ("Non Permissive Environment")? Or when you become the target of Guantanamo-like torture by fellow Americans in a seemingly routine training course ("SERE")? At home, what is it like to be a wife who cannot be told where her husband goes whenever he walks out the door on a mission? Who cannot tell anyone but her sister Unit wives about the job her husband does? What does it mean to the most elite military unit in the US and to be, for all intents and purposes, not exist? Mamet has always been fascinated by shadow lives, be it the con men of House of Games, multinationals in The Spanish Prisoner, the thieves of Heist and Ronin. So as much as The Unit is an exciting and beautifully filmed series with a powerful cast (for those who have missed Regina Taylor since her stint on I'll Fly Away, it's great to see her again), it is a serious meditation on the cost on American's best men and women to fight a war on terror. You can certainly watch The Unit the way you watch CSI, JAG, or NCIS, with half your brain on hold--it's exciting TV. But you would be missing the best part of the show--the Mamet part.
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