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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 16585
Released: February 8, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Beyond the politics, beyond the headlines, and inside the hunt for terror Â? where the enemy is closer than you think. US & UK forces join to combat an intricate organization of international terrorists plotting a set of vicious attacks against the US and UK in an action-packed, edgy, tense & emotional mini-series.
Description of The Grid:
Broadcast on TNT in July 2004, The Grid is an ambitious, often-gripping miniseries depicting the battle against terrorism in a post-9/11 world. When a terrorist cell's sarin attack in London backfires, an unusual and sometimes-uneasy partnership is formed to anticipate and prevent the next strike. The team consists of counterterrorism analysts and agents from the National Security Council (Julianna Margulies), the FBI (Dylan McDermott), the CIA (Peter Marek), and Britain's MI-5 (Bernard Hill) and MI-6 (Jemma Redgrave). Gradually unfolding over six parts and four and a half hours, the BBC-Fox TV coproduction travels across North America, the Middle East, Europe, and Africa following not only the professional and personal lives of the "good guys," but also the terrorists' stories. Comparisons will inevitably be drawn between The Grid and 24 (especially considering the latter's terrorism story lines in seasons 2 and 3). The Grid can't compete in terms of sheer thrills, but it's a well-shot, well-cast ensemble drama with an exciting conclusion that takes place simultaneously on three continents.
The two-DVD set is supplemented by a commentary track by director Mikael Solomon and executive producer Tracey Alexander on two episodes, commentary by Margulies on specific scenes from two episodes, commentary by McDermott on specific scenes from two episodes, 13 deleted scenes, and three featurettes. --David Horiuchi
The Grid Reviews:
Julianna Shines in another great story arc 
2009-10-25 - This is awesome. It has been compared to '24' and 'Alias.' Having been an avid fan of Alias, I can attest to the similarities. Love the here and now, government involved story plot.
I was searching for shows/movies that Julianna Margulies had been involved with and came across this gem.
Love it. Can't say enough about it. Wish they would have kept the story lines going and the shows producing.
The Grid
2009-09-23 - This made for TV miniseries is loaded with action. It has a great cast. While I must say that I find that some of the shows final action conclusion is unrealistic It is worth seeing.
fighting those who terrorize our families
2008-04-17 - (This review contains some spoilers.)
This is a human story that (as the cliché goes) goes beyond the headlines. The story is about a multi-layered, multi-continental terrorist plot to disrupt oil supplies and kill civilians using weapons-grade biological weapons and about the American and British agents who team up to stop it. But there is more to it than that.
The story is almost a documentary--not of events but of the characters' lives. It shows the consequences their decisions (even--or perhaps especially the little ones) have on the rest of the story. There is the brother who alerts the authorities that his brother is a terrorist. (His brother is caught and murdered when he talks.) There is the doctor who needs anti-biotics and gets them from al Qaeda. The price ends up being his sister's life, the lives of countless civilians, and he for all intents and purposes stops being a doctor, stops having a life of his own. There is Raza, the Muslim CIA agent whose instincts begin to unravel this plot. He gets information from his cousin--a cousin to whom his family owes so much and the cousin is killed.
And then, when Raza tries to disarm a human bomb who is also a child - perhaps ten years old, he too is killed.
In short, this is a story about the families and what this madness, this terror is doing to people who love and care for each other. This is not a story about a war on terror but a story about how families are terrorized and how people try to go on living amidst and despite the madness that is our reality.
I hope people see this--and realize that behind the headlines there are people being torn apart; children fitted out with suicide vests; lovers who will never see each other; fathers who will never see their sons; sons who will never see their fathers. Much has been made about the term "war on terror" and some very clever people tell us that you can't wage war on terror.
But the fact is that today, all over the globe, families are being terrorized. Because fanatics convince too many that God wants families to be afraid. So perhaps those clever people are right; there is no war on terror. Perhaps we should be clearer.
We are fighting those who terrorize our families.
Wow! All Americans should see this one!!!1
2007-12-13 - The Grid is very well done with an excellent cast covering a timely subject that unfortunately too many Americans have their heads in the sand about! They should see it and wake up!
A complementing DVD would be "Dirty War" a Brit film about terrorism in England by BBC/HBO. Dirty War is more gritty and really a stomach churner for anyone who sees it. Highly recommended to see! Do not miss it!
Tom
Grid
2007-11-11 - Clever and diverse view on a current world, terrorism, different cultures.
Talented and visionary presentation.
