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While checking out TVShowsonDVD.com today, I read that Burn Notice may be out on DVD soon. They seem to think June. I'm not the only one around here who likes the USA Network show. I know Ogre watches it too. I'm looking forward to that release more so than any other show that comes to mind. Season two will begin airing on USA later this year sometime. No official return date has been announced. When spies get fired, they ... Read More

To the surprise of no one, Monk was renewed for a seventh season. What is surprising is that season seven will likely be the last one. According to reports, the series is getting very expensive to produce. Keep in mind that Tony Shalhoub just got a new contract, so I'm wondering how much of the show's cost is to keep him onboard. It's not like they could dump him; he's integral to the show. With the end of the ... Read More

Nearly every job Michael gets is through either a friend or a relative. This week's job came courtesy of Sam, which has been happening quite often as of late. When Sam gets Michael a job, you can be assured the job will be more difficult than originally thought, and this week was no difference. A Miami house sitter, Nick Lam, is in need of immediate help. His fiance, Dawn, has been kidnapped and is being held for the ... Read More

Tonight's episode picks up about a few days after Michael and Fiona sleeping together. Michael stops by her place for lunch. Although Fiona wouldn't mind talking about their relationship, Michael is too focused on his dossier. He finds it very interesting how the person who made it made up so much of the information. According to the dossier, Michael has been selling secrets and code breaking technologies to various individuals in the middle east. Although Michael and Fiona are ... Read More

Tonight's episode picks right up where we left off last week. Michael has Agent Jason Bly's wallet and ID and promptly outs him in front of a crowded outdoor restaurant. Although Bly doesn't appreciate being outed, he has a trick up his sleeve. As Fiona pulls up in a stolen BMW, Bly informs Michael that she has been selling guns out of the car, which he knows is stolen. When the sound of a police siren sounds in ... Read More

This week, we learn that the new surveillance/intelligence team is in town to keep an eye on Michael. The three men tear up Madelin's house and hold onto her until Michael shows up and meets them. When Michael does show up, Michael learns that getting his hands on the homeland security directive authorizing the burn notice did exactly what he wanted: get the attention of people further up the ladder. After receiving no information about who the intel team is from ... Read More

While Michael is at his apartment reading the homeland security directive authorizing the burn notice, he receives a call from his brother, Nate. He asks Michael to give him a hand with something. At the airport, we find Nate Westen fighting with an older man who is armed. Nate is able to get out of the situation, but not without losing a tooth and a little blood. Michael pulls up with his Dodge Charger and asks Nate what he is ... Read More

This week, we find Michael and Sam in a local bar, talking sports, when Michael notices an old Czech assassin, Jan Haseck, walk in. Quickly thinking, Michael picks a fight with a local asshole to divert the spy's attention. Michael gives the spy a nice shot and takes off with Sam, after destroying a few tables. Back at home, Michael sets up a booby trap on his door. He rigs a shotgun to fire at anyone who enters. Fiona ... Read More

Still looking for the initiator of the burn notice, Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan) with the help of his ex-girlfriend, Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar), track down an Egyptian spy who owes Michael a favor. It seems a while back, Michael saved the man's life. Anyway, Michael asks him for a copy of the Homeland Security directive which initiated the burn notice. The man reluctantly agrees after Michael reminds him of what he did for him. Much of "Fight or Flight" consists of ... Read More

Michael Weston (Jeffrey Donovan) continues his search to determine who put the burn notice on him, and during his quest, he learns his mother, Madeline, has a job for him. She asks him to help her friend and neighbor who has been conned out of her savings by three identity thieves. Michael is told the description of the two men and one woman and is given a piece of paper which leads him to the team. In order to ... Read More