Just wanted to announce the winners of the Burn Notice Season 4 Prize Pack! Out of 67 entries, Michael (please contact me with your address privately!) and Stephanie (thanks for sending your address!) won the two prizes. Congratulations to both our lucky winners! (For those keeping score, Random.org spit out two numbers – 52 and 3 – both between 1 and 67.)
As soon as I coordinate addresses with the contest promoters, we’ll get the two lucky folks their prize packs!
Thanks to everyone who provided fun, insightful, and slightly disturbing answers to the contest. This has to be the most well entered contest to date on my blog!
Keep an eye out for future contests and giveaways!
TWO WINNERS will WIN a Burn Notice Prize Pack that includes:
Season 3 DVD
Water Guns
Beach Ball
Beach Towel
Kiehls Skin Products
(All prizes courtesy of USA Network.)
What do you have to do to win?
Simple… If YOU were sent on a spy mission, who would you rather have backing you up… Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan), Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar), or Sam Axe (Bruce Campbell) and why?
For example, if I was going on a spy mission, I’d probably want Fiona guarding my back ’cause she’s sexy and isn’t afraid to shoot someone or blow something up to complete a mission. 🙂
What about you? I’ll pick a random entry (using the random number generator at Random.org), notify the winner, and post the results on July 2, 2010. All entries must be in by June 30, 2010.
Wow… Season 4 already? Time flies when you’re following the exploits of a burned spy and his friends and family in Miami.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the saga of Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan), here’s a quick summary of this awesome series on the USA Network. Michael is a burned spy, meaning he is no longer trusted by his handlers and dumped in Miami with no resources until they figure out what to do with him. In Miami, Michael reconnected with his old girlfriend (and ex-IRA operative) Fiona Glenanne (Gabrielle Anwar) and a semi-retired FBI agent Sam Axe (Bruce Campbell). Together the trio try to help clients get out of their trouble so Michael can investigate who burned him and possibly get back into the good graces of his former employer.
In addition, you meet Madeline Westen (Sharon Gless), Michael’s chain smoking worry wort retiree mother. And occasionally we see his brother Nate (Seth Peterson) show up on the scene with some new get rich scheme or asking for help getting out of trouble.
Over the first three seasons, Michael had been courted by an organization simply known as “Management” who want to use his skills for themselves. They somehow engineered Michael’s “burn notice” in order to get him into a position to recruit him. Michael isn’t fond of Management to say the least and managed to cut them loose back at the end of Season 2 even though that decision caused a few issues of its own.
In Season 3, in order to stop an insane plan by Mason Gilroy (Chris Vance), Michael gets close to Gilroy and professes to “help” him with a grand plan. That grand plan turned out to be releasing insane former agent Simon (Garret Dillahunt) whose horrific exploits Michael was framed for, thus causing his burn notice.
At the end of Season 3, after Gilroy met an untimely end, Michael reluctantly contacted “Management” and worked with them to stop Simon before too many innocent people died. And in the season finale, after stopping Simon, both he and Simon were taken into custody. In the very last scene, Michael is moved somewhere and put into a chair. When his hood is removed so he can see, he finds himself in a nicely appointed office wondering what he was doing there and who he’d encounter.
Between the end of Season 3 and the beginning of Season 4, Michael has spent his time in a lovely prisoner holding facility. Fiona, Sam, and Madeline have no idea what happened to him. And in the very first scene, Michael is placed into a well-appointed den with lots of bookshelves and fine antiques. He’s introduced to Vaughn (Robert Wisdom) who presents him with some interesting papers…
Can Michael work with Vaughn long enough to get to the bottom of whatever evil scheme Management is working to help or hinder? Only time will tell. But once Michael returns to Miami, he’s thrust into the middle of a little situation that Fiona and Sam managed to cook up while he was gone.
Somehow lawyer Winston (Rich Sommer) managed to help a woman divorce a member of a biker gang and get her to safety. The biker gang didn’t like that much and has put a price on Winston’s head. And once you’ve annoyed one member of a biker gang, it’s likely you’ve miffed them all. So Michael has to help Sam and Fiona clear up that mess and help Vaughn get some information he needs.
Looks like Season 4 of Burn Notice will be full of some interesting twists and turns for Michael and the gang. I’m happy that Management is back in the picture again. Though evil, they always seem to present some unique moral quandaries for Michael to navigate.
Be sure to tune in on the USA Network tonight – Thursday, June 3 at 9/8 Central – for the season premiere. I can’t wait to see what creator Matt Nix and his awesome cast have in store for us this time!
This article first appeared at BlogCritics.org here.
BURN NOTICE returns for its fourth season, Thursdays at 9/8c on 
(All prizes courtesy of USA Network.)
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