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It has Bruce Campbell, which should be enough to make anyone want to watch this show.

http://www.usanetwork.com/series/burnnotice/ (http://www.usanetwork.com/series/burnnotice/)

First season was great, this second season is starting off a tad slow.  Plenty of cameos by Tricia Helfer and a really evil Michael Shanks to make it interesting.

Sort of reminds me of Simon & Simon.

(http://www.clisham.com-a.googlepages.com/425.burn.notice.061708.jpg)

It's so hammy, but it kind of makes it endearing. I enjoy it.

Plus - Bruce!  :drill:

I like it.

It's fun and campy.  I had no idea that Michael Shanks could play such an evil fucker after years of being Dr. Jackson, but he pulled it off well.   Definitely agree about this season though - it feels a bit off its game and I'm not entirely sure why.

USA has had trouble keeping a good thing going for years, and the half hour format doesn't really allow for any sort of complex writing whatsoever. But I'm not sure there's a single writer for USA that could do "complex." Burn Notice only worked for me because I watched it in 2 sittings. Otherwise it was entirely pedestrian. Shame, really, because uhhhh Bruce.

One of my favorite shows. This season is a little slow so far, but not so bad. I think they are trying to figure out where to take the overarching plot.

Edit: This is an hour show, not 1/2 hour.

Half-hour? It's an hour long show.

I love it. It's another one of those House like shows that is interesting not because of the problem of the week, but because of the chemistry of the characters. It's the modern-day Equalizer with a cooler main character and actor, and Bruce. They are definitely doling out the main arc bits in dribs and drabs, but that's likely a consequence of having to write X number of shows.

Michael Donovan (the main star) was in Touching Evil for a season on USA a few years before this, and that show getting canceled was a crime. This one really highlights his talents.

I must be confusing it with something else.

Bah sorry about that other thread. My brain took a vacation.


Who is looking forward to the final two episodes of the season?

o/

I rarely look forward to anything on TV.  I always expect the worst and I'm very nearly almost never disappointed!

Its okay to look foward, Bruce never lets down.

I watched most of season 1, missed most of season 2. I swear season 2 lasted about 2 months.

7 shows, I am hoping this is just a pause.

Finally saw this show after seeing the adverts the last year or so; I always forget it's on.  Caught the pilot and ep2 on hulu tonight. 

Love it.

Season 1 will be a box set buy when/if it comes out.

I saw a couple of these a while ago and it was good and caught another episode recently.  I don't know what season it was and I also never remember it enough to actually look for it.  I don't LOVE it, but it was pretty entertaining and if I had a memory, I'd continue watching.  I can see renting each season but I wouldn't go so far as to own it even though Bruce is in it.  I love Bruce.  Gabrielle Anwar, not so much.  Besides being really good at the Tango, she is and has always been a very mediocre actor.  On the low end of mediocre, actually.

Kept seeing ads for this during Monk and Psych and always thought it looked interesting, but never bothered adding a season pass for it.  But now ads for the new season are on and Bruce fucking Campbell?!  Nobody tells me these things!

Now I have to figure out how to catch up.

The narration which explains the bleeding obvious a dozen times each episode is dreadful. The show never really gets funny. It never really gets exciting. The characters are paper thin and the scripts are rubbish. I'm not sure how everybody puts up with this nonsense. Its the skinny bint, isn't it?

Looking forward to the new season.

It is fun to watch.  Any other hyperbole you'd like to use over something you aren't forced to consume?

To maybe clarify my point, did/do you react the same way to Mr. and Mrs. Smith?

It's fun to watch, but a bit campy and perhaps shallow. I can't help but find myself entertained by it though.

I'm not sure what this series has to do with one of Hitchcock's weaker films. But guess what dipstick, not everybody is going to enjoy the same things as you, and sometimes they might want to share their opinion.

Before you deign to climb down from your mountain-throne of enlightenment and bestow upon me the TRUTH, I'd like to clarify I was talking about the Doug Liman action/comedy flick with Brad Pitt.  It doesn't take itself seriously at all, and doesn't expect the viewer to either.  Burn Notice has a lot in common with it, I feel.  I guess the blatantly-obvious, gratuitous transition shots of bikini-clad miami residents didn't tip you off that they're trying to have fun.

You were the one that was pondering on how anybody could like the show.


Don't be surprised if those of us peasants who do like the show give you our answer.  Don't worry, though, because we won't ask you to like it.  What if the worst were to happen and you saw something in a different light and OH MY BLEEDING JESUS GOD!!!!!11...you ended up enjoying yourself?  Well, shit, that would certainly make your condescension seem a bit silly, similar to classic Dr. Who fanatics talking shit about Red Dwarf and vice versa.

I eagerly look forward to your biting riposte, full of bitter-tasting truth nuggets from the God-King-Emperor of Serious Business on the Internet.

Dipstick.

Not sure how you read all that into it. I merely wondered why it was popular. You were the one who flew off the handle and accused me of hyperbole. So you like a low brow show. I like plenty too. I don't get all defensive about it when other people can't understand why. Idiot.

The "skinny bint" is actually the worst part of the show. The other characters are great and it has Bruce Campbell which goes a long way with some of us.


If it's any consolation I don't think Righ knows he comes across like this. A lot of his posts have that kind of feel and I think it's just his way of communicating.

No, I understand that a lot of people misinterpret what I say as pompous, overbearing and elitist. I can confirm that it's not my intent, but I can't do a lot about it short of taking hours to write what I could otherwise say in minutes. I was educated in an elitist school by pompous overbearing pricks. If that makes me a prick to people reading what I write online, I can accept that. The best I can do is apologise for any hurt feelings.

But I still think the show is rubbish and the narration is downright irritating. Bruce Campbell can't save it for me because his part is too minor and he's not given much to work with.

The narration kind of reminds me of McGyver so I don't mind it. I kind of enjoy knowing what the main character is thinking. Different strokes and all that I guess.

I actually think it is one of the cleverer aspects of the show.  It deconstructs the spy business from the commonly held viewpoint that it must consist of loads of highly specialised training and intricate, convoluted machinations.  Instead, it's really more just a bunch of common sense rules to live by that are SO common sense that most people don't think to use them.  When the tactics are described out loud, you want to say, "well duh," but in reality the average joe wouldn't think to do this stuff.  Or, at the very least, they wouldn't think that something that simple and straightforward would work.

I like show. Fun good. What I this language you others use?

It has the conventions of many modern snacking shows. You're ONLY supposed to be entertained for 42 minutes. You're not suppose to overthink it. You're not supposed to talk about it the next day. You're supposed to have escapist fun and then forget about it.

In my opinion anyway :-)

I agree.  It's entertaining.  It's light.  There's nothing deep about it.  If I notice it, I'll watch but I don't look for it.  I love Bruce Campbell but he's really not on that much.  Everyone else is mostly just okay, except for Anwar - she's awful.

I find the show very entertaining. If you're picking apart the show with any kind of "intelligence" then your nose is too far up in the air and your brow is a bit too high for it. It's like a weekly tribute to 80's action flicks. Not meant to be anything outside of fun to watch.

The same can be said really for those who try to attribute some kind of deep meaning to shows that are obviously nothing more than a bit of sometimes entertaining fluff.  Sometimes I have to laugh at professional critics because of this.  I once read a really involved review of The Simpsons, complete with metaphors and references to psychoanalytic theories.

What I love is that it really sets the spy up as a conman who is paid by the government. Honestly, most of what he does is cons with a little physical violence at times.

This started again a couple weeks ago in case anyone missed it.  :grin:

Sadly this show is now losing out, Other family member goes watches Private Practice or ER(last season nostalgia), I watch Eleventh Hour(hoping we get more conspiracies or evil plots instead of random occurences needed to be explained) So its sad but Burn Notice just gets/got shuffled to you are 3rd/4th TV option at that time, and now that I've missed a few weeks and backlogged on story your pretty much done for and cancelled.

I actually prefer the random stuff rather than the conspiracy setup in the Pilot which I thought was a horrible horrible episode (Why would you hire some random person to dispose of XXX for you? Just incinerate them to ashes yourself or, fuck, just throw them into a random dumpster. Morons.) For the conspiracy stuff I'd rather watch Fringe.

You can get them on Hulu (so it seems):

http://www.hulu.com/burn-notice

Also, that's what Tivo is for! I have a lot of programs that record at 1am or 3am airings so it doesn't conflict with prime time shows.

I too like it.  2 episodes plus pilot so far.   :grin:

I just happened to see this show one night and loved it.  It's just good fun.  Now I make a point to watch it when I get the chance.  I've only seen 5 or seen episodes so far.

I enjoyed last night's episode. It helped that they had the BSG lawyer as a bad guy.

I saw from the info blurb that it was a bank hostage deal and I thought it was going to be lame.  10-15 minutes later I thought it was going to still be lame... Then he started with the whole doctor thing and being sneaky and I ended up loving it!

Season finale, drama.  Great ending -- him swimming alone.  This show has been a great find IMO.  Worth watching if no one knows.  Reminds me of MacGyver + Magnum + The Equalizer.

Ya, the ending is good.  Not sure the rest of the show makes sense.   Really? We supposed to believe Fraiser's dad didn't know/sanction Six's brutal (terriorist) methods.   And the pacing of this show was a bit forced like mashing two shows in one.  Good show, but one of the weaker ones of this season.

Shanks was definitely the Michael-could've-been.  That was the point -- giving the world a Michael in the future if he wasn't the Equalizer for Miami.  Yeah, "Daniel" FTW.

That finale was very rushed.  It's like there was a whole episode where they all bonded that should've come bfore.  They should've cut those car cashes by a lot and left in some dialogue.  Still, the whole series is now open a lot more.  No more evil-6 as source of evil -- the world for Michael & co. is now a lot more complicated.  Which should bring better TV.  More backstory for Bruce!

Yea, was sad to see him go. But it made sense in context and at least let Michael get away. They could have set up the whole episode differently, but anything besides this would have ended with more of the same: a light ever-present ambiguous "threat" that they punctuate every two episodes between Michael playing PI for soon-to-be-exiles. This series could easily devole into drama with no narrative, as so many others have. But instead they seem to be smarting up, make it more of an actual threat. Probably means more backstory as Soln mentioned, and also potentially a few more partners (which is fine as long as they don't get anywhere near the air time Sam and Fiona do).

is bacK!

Good stuff, interested to see what happens.

Again!

And it's gone again!

This week is the finale episode. That was a quick "season" - what, 6, 7 episodes? Still I like the somewhat darker direction the show seems to have taken. The actor who played Gilroy was just a bit too swishy, IMO, but the season has still been good.

Not yet!  One last episode on Thursday for the season finale, then we're back into hiatus.  *sigh* 

Half seasons is the norm these days. But that means you only have to wait a couple of months before new episodes!

I actually kind of like these short seasons. It feels like the show doesn't wander as much as shows that have to fill 23 episodes do. It keeps the momentum going strong.

Finished up the summer season last night. Good way to end it - on a fuck you cliffhanger. I loved the addition of Jesse this season, even though it felt like they were setting him up just to kill him off. I hope they find a plausible way to keep him on the team because he works well with them. At least we only have to wait til November for the next season.

I love this show the way I loved Magnum PI growing up.  Stupid fun.  Some real acting at moments.  Great stuff.

That's a great comparison, and I agree completely.

My neighbor across the hall is a lighting tech on this show. Nice guy and currently one of the luckiest dudes I know. I think the show has actually been getting better as the episodes rack up. Always fun to watch when I catch it.

Randomly recorded the series premiere on a local station while I was setting up my recordings for the week and liked it so much I got Season 1 on DVD and am watching it now. Good stuff.

Just saw this on twitter:

TedOnTV Ted Linhart
by BurnNotice_USA
Breaking BURN NOTICE NEWS Jeffrey Donovan will be directing the Sam Axe - Bruce Campbell TV Movie which @MattNixTV will be writing & EP

I predict a lot of beer, loud shirts and a ton of awesomeness!   :awesome_for_real:

To clarify, they are doing a Sam Axe "prequel" that depicts his last military mission and how he ended up retiring in Miami.

http://omg.yahoo.com/news/jeffrey-donovan-to-direct-burn-notices-sam-axe-prequel/51447

 :awesome_for_real:

Edit:  nice to see Bruce and that character get their own vehicle.  I can totally see Bruce on a houseboat running a detective agency / modelling agency / hit squad as a future spin off.

I'm so confused by the season finale.  That seemed rather... final, did the show actually just end?  I can't remember how long Bruce's contract with the show was supposed to last.

Pretty sure there is a season five, will be interesting to see how they do a barrel roll over the shark.

No. I watched a writer interview and apparently next season will be all about him finally getting some of his wish. I'm sure that the implication is clear.

Finally watched this very short season. It was good, though there did seem to be something missing. Can't quite put my finger on it. I spent the whole season waiting for Jesse to get capped. The ending could have been final, but I think Weston is going to find out that the place he came back to isn't quite what he thought it was.

Yeah, I'm guessing that next season he's going to discover that he's developed a taste for choosing his own independent "good guy" type of job that he's going to miss now that he's an official spy again - even if on the ostensibly "good guy" side of things.

I almost missed it, the made for TV movie about Sam is on tonight on USA at 8pm CST.

Shit, I missed it. Oh well.

its on hulu

This started back up last week; they're handling the fact that Michael's back in pretty well so far. It remains one of my favorite shows on TV; the scenes with Michael and his mother this week were really  :ye_gods:.

Just watched the episode 2 of this season last night. That sure took a dark fucking turn.