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Burn Notice - Season One |  | Actors: Jeffrey Donovan, Sharon Gless, Bruce Campbell, Gabrielle Anwar
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  194 reviews
Sales Rank: 765
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 4
Running Time: 535 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: 2251931
UPC: 024543519317
EAN: 0024543519317
ASIN: B0015RRNMA
Release Date: June 17, 2008
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Product Description
Michael Westen is a trained spy who receives a "burn notice" for an unstated reason & effectively is fired. Penniless he returns to his hometown in Miami and freelances while trying to find who burned him.System Requirements:Running Time: 530 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 024543519317 Manufacturer No: 2251931
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Burn Notice is a canny, clever comedy-thriller show about a covert operative with a heart of gold. Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan) is in the middle of a top-secret mission when he discovers he's been "burned"--basically, fired without warning. After barely extricating himself from danger, he wakes up in Miami, where the government has abandoned him and locked him out of his own bank account. To make ends meet, he takes on private detective jobs (helping an old lady who's fallen victim to a con artist; rescuing a young girl who's being tricked into white slavery; helping a mother whose son has been kidnapped by the boy's father... only it turns out the father is the rightful parent and the "mom" is an assassin sent to kill him--a nice guest star appearance by Lucy Lawless, Xena: Warrior Princess), while trying to figure out who burned him and why. Westen tries to remain clinical in his approach to these problems, but he always ends up protecting the helpless with his sophisticated spy skills. Over the course of the first season, he gradually uncovers a mysterious conspiracy that plans to use his talents for their own nefarious ends. Burn Notice deftly mixes the old and the new. The old: Our hero has a hot ex-girlfriend (Gabrielle Anwar, Scent of a Woman), a goofy sidekick (cult hero Bruce Campbell of the Evil Dead movies), and a meddling mom (Sharon Gless, Cagney & Lacey) who help and hinder him in his investigations, as well as a MacGyver-esque skill for making deadly devices out of common household products. The new: A media-savvy way of deconstructing the tricks and techniques of spies and government agencies, often resulting in smart and highly entertaining plot twists. Donovan, handsome but cheeky, combines a light comic touch with a convincing secret agent cool, and the supporting cast fill their niches with aplomb. Their escapades are pretty breezy and occasionally skirt being glib, but most of the time the show finds an extremely entertaining balance between action, romance, and humor. The extras are few (some montages of characteristic moments from the series, including one of the many bikini-clad girls the Miami locale provides) and the commentaries, rather than covering entire episodes, just discuss a few select scenes from each show. Fortunately, the series itself holds up; imagine a cross between Magnum, P.I. and The Wild Wild West (the classic series, not the insulting Will Smith movie) and you're on the right track. --Bret Fetzer
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 Awesome, fast delivery March 8, 2010
Debra A. Petrill (St. Paul, MN)
thanks this show rocks, I'm so happy the seasons 1 is available, since I can never catch live.
Quick delivery, would recommend this seller.
Sexy, Fun, Fast & Creative: The Spy Who Won My Heart February 26, 2010
Willimena Lowman (Santa Monica, CA)
"You know spies, bitchy little girls". Once Sam uttered this infamous line, I knew that I would love this show: I have not be disappointed. The chemistry between Michael, Fi, Sam and "Mom" is perfect (actually, once they axed the brother then it was perfect). Each season is fast paced and keeps true to the burned storyline. And who would not love a show with Sharon Gless chain smoking her way into your heart and Ash as your best friend/right hand? I mean come on--Evil Dead! Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more.
 Duct Tape Is A Better Weapon Than A Gun... February 26, 2010
darklordzden (Australia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Premise: When intelligence agencies need to dispense with a field operative, they serve a "burn notice": A burn notice essentially terminates their employment within their own agency and informs other agencies that the operative has become unreliable, effectively ending his or her career. Veteran field operative, Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan), receives a mysterious burn notice which brings his legendary career to an abrupt end while carrying out a job in Nigeria. Narrowly escaping with his life, Westen finds himself effectively exiled-under-surveillance in his home-town of Miami, Florida. Here, he discovers that he has been cut off from all his contacts in the intelligence community (a burn notice effectively makes one persona non grata in the community) and that his bank account has been frozen. Without a penny to his name, Westen decides to work as an trouble-shooter, using the money he makes to launch an investigation into the circumstances surrounding his dismissal. Before long, Westen's new role brings him into conflict with Miami's criminal underbelly, as he locks horns with drug dealers, hitmen, conmen, gunrunners, prostitution rings, adversaries with a grudge-to-bear from his old life and all manner of other low-life, and uses every trick in the tradecraft manual to take them down.
Why should you watch this series?
Because its fiendishly entertaining, action-packed, amusing and whip-smart. Jeffrey Donovan is perfectly cast as a character who comes across like a cross between a special forces hardman, a used-car salesman and a stand-up comedian, and the way he goes about tackling the various scumbags who cross his path utilise probably the best distillations of martial thought exemplified in military classics like The Art of War and The Thirty-six Strategies Of Ancient China that you'll ever see onscreen (and which are vocalised by Donovan in best Raymond Chandleresque voiceover style). Suffice it to say, it contains some very clever stuff indeed.
Throw into the mix an excellent support cast featuring Gabrielle Anwar, (as Donovan's mildly deranged former provo-paramilitary ex-girlfriend - who thankfully loses her very dodgy "Oirish" accent after the pilot), Bruce Campbell (yes, THAT Bruce Campbell - he of "Evil Dead" fame - as a paunchy, sun-worshipping semi-alcoholic former Navy Seal and part-time Gigolo) and Sharon Gless (of "Cagney And Lacey" fame, as Donovan's estranged and deeply irritating mother) and you have the recipe for a cracking series which plays like a mixture of "The Equalizer", "MacGyver" and "Miami Vice" and which routinely crackles along with the speed, pace, dialogue and inventiveness of an an Elmore Leonard thriller.
Its also unpretentiously enjoyable and a refreshing change from all the cryptic, portentous drek like "Lost" and "Heroes" which has been clogging up TV channels for the last five years or so. And if you've ever wanted to know how to burn through an engine block using a coffee-can or why duct tape is a better weapon than a gun when taking down an irritating rich-boy drug dealer, then this is the show for you.
"Duct tape makes you smart" ~~ The Westen Wisdom February 11, 2010
Wunder One (Silicon Valley)
Michael Westen, with his distinctive droll humor and mellow charm is an endlessly fun character. His way of being placidly befuddled by all things female is a great counter to his spy smarts. Donovan fits the role so perfectly it is as though the series was written for him.
The plots are light and fast blends of stuff - CIA operative spy stuff, Miami lowlife stuff, romantic stuff, family stuff, and other stuff. Fi is perfectly Fi - her pretty, petite, and generally nearly naked self, loving to blow things up and so very eager to shoot anything that moves. Michael takes Fi home to have dinner with mom, and Fi turns into the sweet and innocent "girl next door" - laugh out loud funny. The somewhat slovenly and slightly alcoholic Sam, a womanizer (but not in the typical misogynistic way) adds just the right presence. Madeline round out the fine core quartet.
Only one thing marred my otherwise unqualified enthusiasm for Burn Notice. Mom Madeline's chain smoking. Watching someone smoke is about the same as watching someone barf - flat out nauseating. And it generates two obvious flaws in the character -- Madeline's beautiful complexion and her sparkling white teeth -- no chain-smoker has either of those. Not that the series is meant to be realistic - no appeal in that! But if Madeline were scripted with an interesting addiction or predilection, rather than this dull and repulsive one, the role could have been enhanced. So many opportunities lost!
As one of the other reviewers noted, Michael is eminently quotable: "Duct tape makes you smart." Ahhh ...... The Westen Wisdom.
One of the best shows on TV! February 2, 2010
Chris D. Jones
One of the best shows on TV! Great characters and stories. Action and humor. Gives you hints on how to be a spy in every episode!
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