Part macho adventurism and part domestic drama,
The Unit Seasons 1-4 DVD Boxset finds itself pitted against competition that cuts into both of its halves:
The Unit Seasons 1-4 DVD BoxsetNBC's Sunday Night Football and ABC's Brothers & Sisters. Is it any wonder this relentless (and I mean that as a compliment) David Mamet-created hour finds itself losing ratings ground in its fourth season?
That's too bad, because
The Unit Seasons 1-4 DVD Boxset is currently solving one of its key problems: the dullness of some of its military-wives subplots. In the season premiere,
The Hills Seasons 1-5 DVD Boxsetthe Special Forces team found itself the target of terrorist threats,
The Unit Seasons 1-4 DVD Boxset? so the government relocated the wives and changed their identities in the name of safety. Presto: Gone was the show's most annoying device, the weepy call-in radio show hosted by Kim (Audrey Marie Anderson).
The Unit Seasons 1-4 DVD BoxsetOverall, the tension of the move has given the women more to do, to bond over, and to unite against.
The Hills Seasons 1-5 DVD Boxset Only the best actress among them, Regina Taylor, remains hamstrung in her ?unworthy role as wise mother hen.
Meanwhile, the action guys battle plane hijackers, plutonium thieves, and arms ? brokers. Dennis Haysbert continues to lead his men with a stoicism that never stiffens into wooden soldier.
The Unit Seasons 1-4 DVD Boxset Scott Foley still continues to sport an immaculate three-day shadow that I should think would be impossible to maintain during combat assignments.
The Hills Seasons 1-5 DVD BoxsetAnd while I don't quite buy the introduction of a lissome blonde (Nicole Steinwedell) into the unit, it's cool: She's tougher than any woman on TV this side of Sarah Connor.