• The Unit Fights On

      A post about by Josh on December 5th, '07

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      In my opinion, the CBS show The Unit remains one of the most underrated on Television. OK, you can’t get over the fact that the Allstate Insurance guy (Dennis Haysbert) is playing a resourceful, combat hardened super-soldier. Me neither. I keep expecting him to grease a couple of terrorists then turn to the camera and tell me about “accident forgiveness.”

      I jest. Haysbert is an asset to the show, as was Demore Barnes, whose character, Hector, a member of the elite delta force unit, was killed of a couple of weeks ago. Though his death seemed to throw a wrench into The Unit, it was clear that the show will go on, relatively unchanged.

      Creator David Mamet doesn’t write the scripts for the episodes anymore, but his trademarks (high-context dialogue, complex relationships) are still evident. The influence of the show’s co-creator, Shawn Ryan, of The Shield fame, is less evident. Though The Unit deals with people in a tough profession, it lacks The Shield’s grittiness. That is the only thing I expected from this show that it has failed to deliver. Everything else: near perfect.

      The Unit is trying to fight its way past the writer’s strike, rationing out its remaining episodes.  Their boots will next hit the ground a week from Tuesday (December 18th).

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