I think The Unit would benefit from being recut with just scenes from the missions and set up of missions. Basically a bunch of 20, 30 minute episodes without having to watch the fluff back home. None of the real estate crap or tiffi cheating etc. Just the guys doing their missions.
Would anyone else watch this?
I'd watch for sure!
Just carve the parts that might interest a female audience right out of there, eh?
shareI'm female, and I could do without the "stuff back home". The only thing I found interesting was Kim Brown carving a niche for herself at the radio station. I didn't think the family stuff was terribly realistic (and it got even less realistic towards s4 and later). The way the writers treated the marriage of Mac and Tiffy and her affair was ridiculous.
I just don't think action mixed with family soap in this way works that well...
(I have to admit to owning the first two seasons of the British series "Ultimate Force" (UK 2003-8) on DVD and watching it every once in a while. They introduce family matters too, but in a very different way and not taking over half the storyline. And if I want to see the family side of things, there's "Homefront" (UK 2012) :-).)
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I think the fluff was fairly well done to give you a break from mission intensity. Cheating is a real issue troops have to deal with though it's often much worse than what Tiffy did. Unit guys are relatively older, more likely to have families, and thus family is going to be on their minds.
And of course, later on it all converges as the wives were participating in the missions.