But if you've got Patty Hewes as your litigator, you should be fine.

That's Glenn Close's character on the rightfully acclaimed series "Damages," and we've got the complete third season DVD. There are 13 episodes on 3 discs. Special features include cast and crew commentaries, deleted scenes, episode introductions and a blooper reel.

This third season is the one before the show moved to Direct TV, and features Lily Tomlin, Campbell Scott, and Martin Short. You'll get to see Rose Byrne, Tate Donovan and Ted Danson too.

And it's so easy to snag. Just send an email by 8 p.m. today (12/12). We'll have a random drawing. We'll send it to that person. They'll get good TV. It's what we do.
 

The fourth season of "Damages" premieres tonight on DirecTV (the show previously aired on FX). To celebrate the return of one of our favorite shows, we're giving away a DVD set of "Damages" Season 3, which just went on sale yesterday.

Season 3 borrowed from the Bernie Madoff scandal and featured amazing performances from guest stars Lily Tomlin, Martin Short, and Campbell Scott (as well as "Damages" regulars Glenn Close, Rose Byrne, Ted Danson, and Tate Donovan).

To win, send me an email with your name and mailing address. I'll draw a winner randomly from those entries. I'll take entries until midnight this Sunday (July 17).

If you don't win, the gorgeous Sony Home Pictures Entertainment set lists for $39.99, but you can usually get it a little cheaper than that (Amazon has it for $19.99 right now).

WINNER! Congratulations to Justin from Greenville! 

Much as it did a few years ago with NBC's neglected jewel "Friday Night Lights," DirecTV rescued FX's superb drama "Damages" from the scrap heap last year, promising the show's fans two more seasons of Patty Hewes' mind-bending machinations.

The fourth season of that acclaimed Glenn Close series -- its first on DirecTV -- premieres tomorrow night at 10pm.

Season 4's legal plot involves a lawsuit against a powerful military security contractor, à la Blackwater, with John Goodman playing the Erik Prince role (in a fairly obvious nod, Goodman's character is named Howard Erickson). Chris Messina ("Julie and Julia") plays an Iraq war vet who took a job in Afghanistan with Erickson's High Star Security Corporation. He just happens to be an old high school friend of Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne), who is trying to bring about the lawsuit on behalf of families of those killed during questionable High Star missions.

If you subscribe to DirecTV, you're in for a real treat.

Starting tonight at 10pm, the carrier will begin showing episodes of the critically acclaimed FX drama, "Damages." They will start with the first episode of Season 1 and show a new episode each Wednesday night at 10pm, leading up to the premiere of Season 4 this summer.

Season 4 of "Damages" will be available exclusively on DirecTV.

"Damages" stars Glenn Close, Ted Danson, and Rose Byrne. It originated on FX but the ratings for Season 3 weren't fantastic, so the series was canceled and DirecTV picked it up. Unlike DirecTV's deal with "Friday Night Lights," in which that show is broadcast first on DirecTV and later on NBC, "Damages" will not be shown later on FX. If you don't have DirecTV and want to see the final season, you'll have to wait for the dvds. I know. Bummer.

I highly recommend DirecTV customers tune in tonight. It airs on Channel 101.

There was a pretty major twist on last night's "Damages" premiere.

Of course, we learned in the first few minutes that someone is trying to kill Patty (or are they?). And we met the core players in this year's main storyline (or did we? Just kidding.): the greedy financier, his family, and his ruthless attorney.

But of course, the big shocker came at the end of the show.

SPOILER ALERT! DO NOT KEEP READING IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED YET!

The Emmy award-winning "Damages" returns tonight for its third season on FX, and the drama surrounding lawyer Patty Hewes is as fantastically tense (and confusing) as ever.

As with previous seasons, there's a startling bit of action in the opening minutes to hook you, followed by the usual mind-bending jumps back and forth in time to reveal tiny, gratifying bits of information to keep you guessing about, well, about everything, up until the very last minute of the very last episode.