The Unit Season 2 DVD - Review

I know, I know, I am totally obsessed with this show. You don't have to tell me. :-)

On September 25, The Unit Season 2 DVD came out. I was there at the store first thing, buying it. My day gig is television and I totally am sick of the stuff, when I get home at night. Can you say burn out? I knew you could.
The fact that I have made an exception with this show, a war show none the less, is quite unusual. The fact that I heard about and began watching this show, due to the recommendations from a romance board, should give you a hint that this show is special. Yes, they deal with the realities of todays war and there is lots of action for the war guys, but for once they deal with the realities of the families, who watch these guys just drop everything and leave them, without a word. Getting sent into a hot zone, time after time. How the wives and children deal with this is what hooked me and has hooked my family, good. I spent some time this week listening to the additional tracks on some of the episodes and I had some real laughs, when several members of the cast and crew talked about the conditions they had to shoot these episodes of The Unit in. The Unit is shot mostly around my home town, Santa Clarita. We are not known for our temperate climate. Being a lot of the mission episodes are outside in remote areas of our City, they end up with extremely HOT temperatures for the first 8 episodes or so, then a few that might actually be OK and then into the cold and possibly wet time of the year. To put it nicely, I don't envy them their day gig. So, I was watching this episode that was shot in September and it was supposed to be Siberia in the cold. They comment that they had to fake Ice (by using wax) and snow (by using soap bubbles). Wearing these hot coats and gloves. Did I mention that I don't envy them? The friendships the actors show off on these audio tracks, make it so worth the money to purchase the set. Being I have seen the programs multiple times, this, for me, is the new information. Did Bob really eat those grubs? Yep, about 6 of them and they are crunchy, without much taste. Was that a dummy he was pulling on the sled? Nope, Eric Haney said, "yeah, Scott Foley can pull the actress on the sled, he's strong enough" and thus, the dummy was not used. When Kim dropped to the ground with Teddy, was that a dummy? Nope, the real Teddy and quite a challenge for her. As a mater of fact, they mention that her worried expression was not about the bullets that were flying, but her concern that she would hurt Teddy as they fell. Lynn Mamet (a writer on the show) asks several of the actors if they have to work out to keep in shape for this show. Dennis Haysbert says, that yes they do and no he just doesn't have time to do so and she quips back that maybe he should quit his Allstate gig? :-)
The season has 23 episodes, so there is a lot there, for your money, since the episodes are all first rate. Add in laughs along the way, on the audio track and it's even better. It also has a "Making of" segment that runs almost 45 minutes. Lots of Santa Clarita locations turn up there, which makes this resident happy. Check it out.