The Unit

The Unit: The Complete Third Season
$39.98
The Unit is, in my family's opinion, the best television show ever put on television. The characters are so multidimensional. It is their intelligence and strengths that appeal to us so much. Each character is amazing by him or herself, but combined, they are incredible.
Truthfully, this show is so good, you forget you are watching a television series and not just a nice long movie. You care about the characters, you are riveted by the scripts and left craving for many more episodes when you are done.
Imagine strong men who speak multiple languages, can converse on any subject, don't use obscenities, and aren't afraid to be gentle when necessary. Then imagine the women in their lives who give as much as their soldiers. Women who are strong and caring. Then combine them with true to live plots and filming so good it is unexpected in a television show. Imagine all that and you have the unit.
I wish any station would pick them up again. They would add thousands of new viewers, my family at the forefront. Wish I could give it 20 stars.

The Unit - The Complete First Season
$49.98
Simply the best produced, directed, written and acted TV series of the decade. It happens with the grace of truth that rarely is allowed on broadcast networks. The viewer has a front row seat into the professional and personal lives of soldiers and family in the U.S. military at the highest level. Action packed, intelligent, emotionally raw and penetrating the audience has been intimately invited to share a top secret world.

The Unit
$14.95
The plot of this book intrigued me, as I am a big fan of dystopian novels, but I was honestly thinking I would be able to accurately predict the ending. I had one of three possibilities in my head and, up until the very end, it looked like one of my theories was correct. Then a sudden shift in the plot rendered my theory wrong and left me stunned at what had just happened.

This book is very well written and the characters are lively and entertaining. The plot is typical (and by that I mean "dismal") of a dystopian story, yet it is creative and fresh and well thought out. The characters in the Unit are basically considered to be useless and no longer able to meaningfully contribute to society, so they are collected up and housed in the Unit until their internal organs are required by one of the "Needed Ones" out in society. To a normal person, this would seem absurd, but the people in the Unit have grown up knowing this would happen if they, the residents, didn't somehow turn out to be needed by society themselves. To prevent further burdens on society, the people in the Unit become needed in a totally different, totally creepy way....by donating their organs little by little, until the Final Donation. The residents in the Unit are treated with dignity and respect, are well fed and well cared for, and have come to accept their lot in life.

Until one day a completely unexpected miracle happens.

But are all miracles good??????

I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys stories like "We" (Evgenij Zamyatin), "Brave New World" (Aldous Huxley's version of Zamyatin's "We"), and Orwell's "1984". This book will definitely not disappoint. Now keep in mind this is a dystopian novel, so don't hold your breath for a happy ending.

The Unit: The Complete Second Season
$59.98
IF YOURE IN THE US ARMY YOU NEED TO SEE THIS SERIES, I AM HOOKED ON IT! AWESOME!