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 favor 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. This collection presents the series' fifth season in its entirety.

DVD Features:

4-Disc Set
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Dolby Surround - English
Subtitles - English, Spanish - Optional
Interactive Features:
Additional Interactive Features - Optional Storyline Recaps
Disc 1:
Additional Release Material:
Alternate Scenes: Deleted Scenes w/ Optional Commentary (9)
Audio Commentary:
1. Including DJ Caruso - Director; Michael Chiklis, Walton Goggins, Kenneth Johnson - Stars ("Extraction")
2. Including Guy Ferland - Director; Catherine Dent, Paula Garces, Michael Jaces - Stars ("Enemy of Good")
3. Scott Rosenbaum - Co-Producer; Michael Chiklis, Walton Goggins - Stars - ("Jailbait")
4. Including Liz Craft, Sarah Fain - Supervising Producers; Paula Garces, Laura Harring & Jay Karnes - Stars ("Tapa Boca")
Disc 2:
Additional Release Material:
Alternate Scenes: Deleted Scenes w/ Optional Commentary (7)
Audio Commentary:
1. Catherine Dent, Laura Harring, Benito Martinez, C.C.H. Pounder - Stars ("Trophy")
2. Cast and/or Crew ("Rap Payback")
3. Including Adam Fierro - Co-Executive Producer, Jay Karnes, C.C.H. Pounder, Cathy Cahlin Ryan - Stars ("Man Inside")
4. Jay Karnes - Star; Shawn Ryan - Writer ("Kavanuagh")
Disc 3:
Additional Release Material:
Alternate Scenes: Deleted Scenes w/ Optional Commentary (9)
Audio Commentary:
1. Glen Mazzara - Producer; David Marciano, Cathy Cahlin Ryan, David Rees Snell - Stars ("Smoked")
2. Including Anthony Anderson, Benito Martinez, C.C.H. Pounder - Stars; Gwenyth Horder-Payton - First Assistant Director ("Of Mice and Lem")
3. Walton Goggins, Kenneth Johnson - Stars; Shawn Ryan - Writer ("Post Partum")
Disc 4:
Additional Release Material:
Music Video
Featurette: "I.A.D"
Alternate Scenes: Deleted Scenes w/ Optional Commentary (25)
Documentary: Scott Brazil Tribute
Interviews: Television Academy Panel
Behind the Scenes:
1. "Delivering the Baby: The Making of Episode 511"0
2. "Fox Movie Channel Presents: Making A Scene"
Trailers:
1. Season 6 Promo
2. Additional Promos

Michael Chiklis: Actor
CCH Pounder: American Actress, SLIVER
Michael Jace: 
Benito Martinez: Actor, TV's "The Shield"
Kenny Johnson: 
Catherine Dent: Actor, THE SHIELD series/USS POSEIDON: PHANTOM BELOW
Walton Goggins: 

4 stars out of 5 -- "[S]o many shades of grey prevail throughout the series that viewers will find their sympathies and suspicions shifting with every episode..."
"Ryan's stingingly well-written modern cop-show classic is small-screen ensemble drama at its best..."
5 stars out of 5 -- "Eleven episodes of intense cat 'n' mouse culminate in a shocker of a climax..."
4 stars out of 5 -- "In this season of the cop drama we bathe in machismo as Internal Affairs snoop Kavanaugh gets on Vic's bad side."