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Written by BARRY BRECHEISEN
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Friday, 14 August 2009 |
In this day and age it’s quite normal to know someone who has been laid off of work if in fact that person isn’t you. Whether you work at a bank, a fast food joint, or in the world of the internet, normal people are getting fired left and right. If it is in fact happening all over the world could it even be happening to say, James Bond?
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Burn Notice: Season Two
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 Entertainment
 Art
Special Features
Created by Matt Nix
Starring Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, Bruce Campbell, Sharon Gless
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Could it even be crossing over to that world? You know the secret agents, the ghosts of the world working for the government whom of course are the last ones we would consider normal. Well in the spy world agents don’t get fired like us normal people they get “burned”. When a person that is working for the intelligent agencies are dismissed for being considered “unreliable” and they are “wiped off the grid”. You think you have troubles being thrown back into the work force, you have no idea what it is like if you are a former spy. You have no identity that means you have no former work history, no money, no anything. This is the premise of the television show Burn Notice staring Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, Bruce Campbell and Sharon Gless. Now premiering its third season on the USA Network has released the second season on Blu-ray.
Convert-Operations agent Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan) has a problem, he has been “burned” and he is now stuck in his hometown of Miami, Florida until he can figure out why. Here he is surrounded by his former girlfriend Fiona Glenanne (Gabrielle Anwar) whom is a former IRA operative that specializes in explosives, Sam Axe (Bruce Campbell) a semi-retired former Navy Seal who becomes Michael’s double agent and of course Madeline Westen (Sharon Gless) his mother who tries to show support while trying to make them all a family again that includes a younger brother.
Season one introduced us to Michael Westen and his quests for answers to why he was “burned”. In between his search for clues, Michael with the help of Fiona and Sam becomes a sort of unofficial private investigator helping “clients” with their problems. Through the course of the season they battle an array of bad guys to help fund Michael’s ultimate goal of getting back into the spy game.
Season two continues where we left off but this time he is forced to do jobs for a mysterious woman named Carla (Tricia Helfer) whom may be responsible for him being burned. Through the course of the season Michael tries to keep two steps ahead of Carla as she threatens the people closest to him. Will Michael finally get the answers he has been looking for and finally have the burn notice removed? That’s part of the fun with this original, clever and thoroughly entertaining television show.
Extras
The package comes with all 16 episodes of the season including three commentary tracks with the creator Matt Nix, the actors and others involved in the show. Well worth your time when watching the episodes a second or third time around, in particular the season final episode “Lesser Evil”. There are a slew of deleted scenes that add up to about seventeen minutes and help to flesh out some extra plot lines. There is a gag reel and even an Easter Egg hidden entitled “Boom Notice”. Rounding out the extras is a fourteen minute featurette entitled Nixin’ It Up where creator Matt Nix talks about the whole process in great detail of the episode “Do Not Harm” that he directed.
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