The Unit - Recap & Review - Best Laid Plans

The Unit
“Best Laid Plans”

Original Air Date: April 26, 2009

Brittany Wells – Associate Staff Writer
brittanyw@thetwocentscorp.com

Another two weeks since the last episode of The Unit. What else is new? Bob’s in Rome, trying to ferret out some terrorists, while Bridget is trying to work the opposite angle in the Philippines. With only like two episodes left in the season, one only hopes these are the terrorists we’ve been looking for over the last twenty.

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The Unit - Recap & Review - Whiplash

The Unit
Whiplash

Original Air Date: April 12, 2009

Brittany Wells – Associate Staff Writer
brittanyw@thetwocentscorp.com

Happy Easter. Have some violence and angst with your ham.

Sam is not only trying to take over the Mack/sniper rifle OTP, he’s still trying to hit on Bridget. Bob tells him to back off. He still follows her home anyway. This really reads like a scene out of a Lifetime movie. Complete with really bad attempted rape that gets broken up at the last second.

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The Unit - Recap & Review - Best Laid Plans

The Unit
“Best Laid Plans”

Original Air Date: March 29, 2009

Brittany Wells – Associate Staff Writer
brittanyw@thetwocentscorp.com

It’s strange to think there may only be four more episodes of The Unit ever. While this hot and cold fourth season has left me ambivalent about the series’ survival, I have to say it does still have an amazing cast. Heaven knows I’d miss seeing Robert Patrick every week. After last week, though, I’m looking for this episode to pick up my spirits.

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The Unit - Recap & Review - Flesh & Blood

The Unit
“Flesh & Blood”

Original Air Date: March 22, 2009

Brittany Wells – Associate Staff Writer
brittanyw@thetwocentscorp.com

We’ve only got maybe five episodes left in the fourth (and possibly final) season of The Unit…so where are our answers? Hopefully, starting with this episode directed by Dennis Haysbert, we’ll get some.

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The Unit - Recap & Review - Hill 60

The Unit
“Hill 60”

Original Air Date: Mar 15, 2009

Brittany Wells – Associate Staff Writer
brittanyw@thetwocentscorp.com

Everything seems just fine for our boys and their families…so of course, you just know it’s going to go really, really wrong. (At least we found Tiffy? Even if I’m not sure that’s a good thing.)

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The Unit - Recap & Review - Hero

The Unit
Hero

Original Air Date: March 8, 2009

Brittany Wells – TwoCents Reviewer
brittanyw@twocentscorp.com

Yet again, it’s been almost a month since the last new episode of The Unit (not that the show has done that much to make me miss it)…and as much as that irritates me, it’s equally as irritating to come back with an episode that should have probably been episode 9 instead of episode 15. At least, it would have made more sense then for us to be flashing back to Syria. I’m not sure who to blame for that – the writers or the network. At this point, it’s probably either or, or maybe even both.

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The Unit - Recap & Review - The Last Nazi

The Unit
“The Last Nazi”

Original Air Date: Feb 16, 2009

Brittany Wells – TwoCents Reviewer
brittanyw@thetwocentscorp.com

It’s been more than a month since the last new episode of The Unit, which, frankly, wasn’t that great. I contented myself by saying, “Oh, the next one will be awesome! Robert Patrick is finally getting a good Tom Ryan-centric episode, and he’ll be fabulous, and maybe we’ll figure out what the heck is going on around here!” If there’s one thing that makes me happy, it’s the promise of a lot of Robert Patrick.

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The Unit - Recap & Review - The Spear of Destiny

The Unit
“The Spear of Destiny”

Original Air Date: Jan 11, 2009

Brittany Wells – TwoCents Reviewer
brittanyw@twocentscorp.com

The Unit kind of got the short end of my stick this week, seeing as it followed the two-hour season premiere of 24. While not always plausible, 24 has been one of those shows that’s close enough to reasonable where if it doesn’t quite make sense, you forgive it because it makes sense enough and you know the writers will eventually wrap it up in a nice package. Unfortunately, watching that only helped point out the plot holes in another standalone Unit episode that seems more filler than forward progress.

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The Unit - Recap & Review - Bad Beat

The Unit
Bad Beat

Original Air Date: 4 Jan 2009

Brittany W – TwoCents Reviewer
brittanyw@twocentscorp.com

Check it out, Unit fans. It’s the episode we should have had last week. Or whatever the week after “Mislead and Misguided” was. To where I’m wondering if CBS screwed up the airing order of this show. Anyway, we finally have some answers, of a sort, and at least we had some really great guest stars.

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The Unit - Recap & Review - Switchblade

The Unit
Switchblade

Original Air Date: 21 Dec 2008

Brittany Wells – TwoCents Reviewer
brittanyw@twocentscorp.com


Apparently, I was wrong. There was one more episode of The Unit in 2008, and it for the most part only serves to highlight the ups and downs of a so far inconsistent season.

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The Unit - Recap & Review - "Mislead and Misguided"

The Unit
Mislead and Misguided

Original Air Date: 30 Nov 2008

Brittany Wells – TwoCents Reviewer
brittanyw@twocentscorp.com

Check your calendar – it’s the last new episode of The Unit in 2008. Best to tie up some of those loose ends, don’t you think?

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The Unit - Recap & Review - "Shadow Riders"

The Unit
Shadow Riders

Original Air Date: 23 Nov 2008

Brittany Wells – TwoCents Reviewer
brittanyw@twocentscorp.com

Last week, somebody commented that I must not like this show because I find things to make fun of. This episode – obviously setting things up for whatever craziness is going on next week, but more on that later – gave me plenty of ammunition. I love this show dearly, but you do have to call it like you see it. At least it made more sense than “Inquisition.”

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The Unit - Recap & Review - Into Hell, Part Two

The Unit
“Into Hell, Part Two”

Original Air Date: November 16, 2008

Brittany Wells – TwoCents Reviewer
brittanyw@twocentscorp.com

It’s been a long, very long week. Yet the second part of our two-parter is finally here and…surprisingly underwhelming.

You’d think we’d open with something in your face, perhaps, but no. Instead, we get the same rehash of clips we’ve seen for weeks (if I have to see that clip of Ryan and Tiffy together for another week I’m going to choke someone), and then hey, it’s the Pentagon. Is something big finally happening in Washington? Nope.

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The Unit - Recap & Review - Into Hell, Part One

The Unit
“Into Hell, Part One”

Original Air Date: November 9, 2008

Brittany Wells – TwoCents Reviewer
brittanyw@twocentscorp.com

Obviously, it hasn’t been that long since last week, because everyone wants to kill Tom Ryan. Except for me, of course. Wait, what do you mean I don’t get a vote in this? Oh, that’s right – the TV can’t hear me screaming.

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The Unit - Recap & Review - Inquisition

The Unit
“Inquisition”

Original Air Date: Nov 2, 2008

Brittany Wells – TwoCents Reviewer
brittanyw@twocentscorp.com

Occasionally, no matter how much you love a show, there’s guaranteed to be one episode that you absolutely don’t understand. When it comes to The Unit, this would be that episode.

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The Unit - Recap & Review - Dancing Lessons

The Unit
“Dancing Lessons”

Original Air Date: October 26, 2008

Brittany Wells – TwoCents Reviewer
brittanyw@twocentscorp.com

Hey, we got Robert Patrick out of uniform for once! I’m pleased. Apparently he’s in California…along with everyone else. Yes, this isn’t much of a hiding spot anymore. He tells everybody that the wives have been drafted to do some snooping around on a guy named Guilum who might be connected to the terrorists from the season premiere. Bob correctly deduces that this has been a long time coming (didn’t Kim say something about them being there on purpose a few episodes ago? Way to delay payoff, writers). Jonas gets pissed, especially because Molly has no hesitation in signing up. He storms out…and look it’s an Allstate commercial. Ironic.

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The Unit - Recap & Review - The Conduit

The Unit
“The Conduit”

Original Air Date: October 19, 2008

Brittany Wells – TwoCents Reviewer
brittanyw@twocentscorp.com

Just as I’m thinking ‘Trotter’ is an unfortunate name for a college professor, said professor turns out to be Bob Brown, who is undercover in Cartagena, Colombia. Also known as the drug capital of the world. He’s being needled by some woman to fly down for a lecture of some sort. Just when I’m thinking she’s a little too insistent she reveals her two big macho guy friends who are kidnapping him. Not just him, but his two colleagues, who we can all figure out are played by Charles and Jonas. The show seems a little extra-obvious this week. And it was written by David Mamet? Really?

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The Unit - Recap & Review - Sex Trade

The Unit
“Sex Trade”

Original Air Date: Oct 12, 2008

Brittany Wells – TwoCents Reviewer
brittanyw@twocentscorp.com

I have never been to Bosnia, but this episode wouldn’t make me want to go there. Our boys – and girl, apparently – are on the ground for a new operation trying to recover some plutonium. Moments into the episode and Bridget is complaining about how they’re behind schedule. I wonder when someone put her in charge; oh, wait, that’s right, she’s not. She just likes to act like it, Apparently, she set them up in a big vacant warehouse somewhere, organizing everything down to picking out their wardrobe. Complete with her in a dress I wouldn’t wish on a hooker. This isn’t shaping up to be one of my favorite episodes.

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The Unit - Recap & Review - Sudden Flight

The Unit
“Sudden Flight”

Original Air Date: Oct 5, 2008

Brittany Wells - TwoCents Reviewer
brittanyw@thetwocentscorp.com

When last we left the men and women of Fort Griffith, the women were on a bus headed to nowhere and the men were getting ready to fly to Sarajevo to take on a new and serious threat to their security. As we rejoin them this week, the bus is still headed to nowhere…and apparently, the guys are in Argentina on a flight bound for South Africa.

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The Unit - Recap & Review - Sacrifice

The Unit
“Sacrifice”

Original Air Date: Sept 28, 2008

Brittany W - TwoCents Reviewer
brittanyw@thetwocentscorp.com

There are certain things that I’ve come to expect from watching The Unit after four seasons, one of which is exactly what we open with for the fourth season: at some point, Mack shoots somebody with a sniper rifle. This is what I’ve missed for the last couple of months.

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