{"id":8201,"date":"2015-12-11T12:07:42","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T17:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/?p=8201"},"modified":"2015-12-11T15:35:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T20:35:13","slug":"unit-television-series-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2015\/12\/11\/unit-television-series-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Summarizing 2006-2009&#8217;s Quality Show &#8211; &#8216;The Unit&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/12\/theunit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8220\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/12\/theunit.jpg\" alt=\"SSD_0247.DNG\" width=\"1300\" height=\"975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/12\/theunit.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/12\/theunit-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/12\/theunit-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\" \/><\/a><em>The Unit<\/em> was an action-drama television series that originally ran on CBS from March 7, 2006 to May 10, 2009. The show focused on a top-secret military unit similar to real-life U.S. Army special operations unit. <em>The Unit<\/em> was based on Eric L. Haney\u2019s book, <em>Inside Delta Force: The Story of America\u2019s Elite Counterterrorist Unit<\/em> and was created for television by David Mamet and Shawn Ryan. The cast of <em>The Unit<\/em> includes Dennis Haysbert, Scott Foley, Audrey Marie Anderson, Max Martini, and Robert Patrick.<\/p>\n<p>The term \u201cThe Unit\u201d is the U.S. Army colloquial term for Delta Force. Although Haney stated the term Delta Force is never used in the special operations community, they are only referred to as \u201cThe Unit\u201d and their Department of Defense designation is \u201cCombat Applications Group.&#8221; This designation is similar to the show\u2019s cover name of \u201c303rd Logistics Studies Group.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the season 3 opener, there is an on-screen readout identifying the Unit as \u201c1st Special Actions Group.&#8221; The Unit members are recruited from the 75th Ranger Regiment and Special Forces groups. The wives of Unit members are encouraged to form close-knit bonds with each other and are given minimal information regarding the missions of their significant others. When a Unit member is killed in action, the details of their death are kept secret and a cover story is established regarding their death.<\/p>\n<p>The reviews for the show were good. When the first season premiered, it drew 14.4 million viewers; however, the following seasons saw a decline in the number of viewers, which could have come from a variety of external factors.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Unit<\/em> is a great show for military enthusiasts and anyone who likes a good action\/drama television series. The cast is a phenomenal\u00a0one and features a great storyline in each episode. Although the series has been\u00a0cancelled, you can still watch it as it is available on iTunes, Amazon Video, and Google Play Store.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"702\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PEWeMf8gQfw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Unit was an action-drama television series that originally ran on CBS from March 7, 2006 to May 10, 2009. The show focused on a top-secret military unit similar to real-life U.S. Army special operations unit. The Unit was based on Eric L. Haney\u2019s book, Inside Delta Force: The Story of America\u2019s Elite Counterterrorist Unit<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2015\/12\/11\/unit-television-series-review\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":8220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1044,826,2953,2955,2270,2954,2440,2952],"class_list":{"0":"post-8201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-television","8":"tag-action","9":"tag-cbs","10":"tag-david-mamet","11":"tag-delta-force","12":"tag-drama","13":"tag-eric-l-haney","14":"tag-military","15":"tag-the-unit"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}