My experience with Dog The Bounty Hunter would be zero. I really don’t like reality television (most of it anyway). Of course to give Dog his fair shake I sat through all 19 hours and 31 minutes + Bonus Features to see if Dog and his crew were any different then the many attention hungry phonies out there on the boob tube hawking their plastic surgery scarred mugs for the quickest buck they could get their greedy no dignity having paws on. I wasn’t completely disappointed.

If your like me out there and have never seen this show don’t go in expecting action, danger, and high speed chases. Cops it is not. Dog and his crew of family members spend the morning in a huddle getting information down about fugitives their after and then load up in the car to track them down. Sure you’ll be led to believe that the fugitives are dangerous and that Dog and the rest of his crew are dying for some action but 100% of the time the people their looking for not only give up without a fight they usually end up sobbing it up in the backseat of the vehicle having a heart to heart with Dog who tries to offer them some fatherly advice. While the show is pretty much all over exaggeration at its finest there is a human quality at its core. Dog and his family pray together, generally care about the situations the fugitives they catch are in, and they seem to be good people. So they get carried away during the hunt and resort to calling people bitches and every other expletive that gets beeped to high heaven but they try.

The set comes with 45 episodes, which for the life of me I can’t figure out how it qualifies as entertainment, plus a full length bonus feature entitled Year of the Dog. It was interesting to see the evolution of Dog’s crew and to watch his children get older as the set moved along. I had my issues with Dog’s wife Beth who tried to come off as Domino Harvey. Dog and his wife Beth are simply impractically dressed for what they do. Beth with gloves cut at the fingertips to allow her long nails to protrude through and Dog in his trench coat and eccentric hairstyle. Beth’s dress attire doesn’t really take a breath until maybe the fourth season. It was just hard to take the show seriously with these two looking and dressing the way they did. Was it all for the sake of the camera? More then likely. Fortunately the rest of Dog’s crew; his sons Leeland, Duane Lee, and brother Tim represented a more sensible side to the show.  

For a bounty hunter show it was relatively tame. Ironically Dog and Beth spend the whole time arguing with fugitives about how stupid they are for doing something dumb like missing a court date, getting warrants for their arrest, then going to prison. In the final episode in the set I find out that Dog and his Crew posted bail while incarcerated in Mexico and didn’t bother to go back. Maybe Dog should have watched his own show and taken his own advice. Was he wrong for entering Mexico to haul in a disgusting serial rapist? The logical everyday Joe voice in me says hell no. He did what no one else was going to and because of it that scumbag paid for his crimes. Still, after watching 20 hours of Dog The Bounty Hunter, well, you just know Dog must have known better. The outcome of his not serving time in jail for skipping out on his bail and getting away with it, however right he might have been, just seems like a slap in the face towards the principle of what he and his crew have been preaching. In any case I felt the title of this boxset was way off. Wild Ride? Not so much. Still, its got its charms. Enjoy.

Bonus Features:
*Additional Footage
*Full-Length Special: Year of the Dog
*Featurettes: The Drama of Dogs Wedding Ring, Dance Lessons, Shopping with Beth, The Bow Wow Vow, A Tribute to Dog and Beth
*Catch Em If You Can Episode From A&Es Take This Job... Series Starring Duane Dog Chapman
*On-Air Promos
*Cast Biographies
*Dog's Bounty Hunting Pop Quiz
*Photo Gallery