Now that Michael knows who burned him (or does he? I’m still sticking with my theory that his mom had him burned) and they are no longer trying to help him to recruit him, thereby removing their protection and allowing every agency and enemy access to his existence. Michael handles it with aplomb. This week’s episode brings in an old friend and an assignment bringing down a Venezuelan crime boss.
Of course, any idiot could see where this is going and when the finale gets here, it feels like something that should have taken 10 minutes of the episode before he begins the first stages of trying to get his job back. Everything we know, we can ascertain by the time we see Michael in jail. He has to watch his ass, he can’t trust anyone except Fiona, Sam and his mom (maybe), and he needs to get back to what he was doing before he got burned. Yeah.
Except they took the whole episode to do it. And it was slow. It dragged. I didn’t like anyone in it. No one got to do what they do. And maybe that is what the writers wanted, the slow, dragging, MYGODGETITOVERWITH! moments so that we can feel Michael’s frustration.
Newsflash Burn Notice. I don’t need to feel Michael’s frustration. I already do. For god’s sake, he wears a suit in Miami every day. By refusing to dress like the “natives”, he’s so far removed from the general populace, all you want is for him to get his old spy job back. If he can take you down with a can of chips and a cell phone, what can he do with real weapons?
Also, Fiona was just a little too girly. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind girly and I can deal with petulantly angry. But Fi is no fun unless she is blowing stuff up or having bigger balls than the guys around her. No, Fi can have depth, but if she starts talking about babies, I’m out.
Not really. I love this show and even slow shows that seem to have no point are worth watching if I get to see Jeffery Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, and Bruce Campbell on a weekly basis. For that, I thank you, Burn Notice.
But for the first episode of season 3, that was a Fail.
June 8th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
i thought harlan was going to be a new addition to the team, thank goodness i was wrong!
and leave it up to management to take away the protection but not give him his money or travel privileges back.
June 8th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
I knew as soon as we meet Harlan that he was going to be after Mikey. I spent the whole episode waiting for the betrayal. If management gave him the opportunity to leave, or money, we wouldn’t have a show. The thing that makes this show is that it’s set in Miami, that Michael is adamant against dropping his spy persona and relaxing, and the backdrop of sunny Miami vs. the dark side of the spy game. If he got to move around, it would lose a lot of its charm, don’t you think?
June 8th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
i agree completely. i’m also one gullible son of a gun.
i’ll leave the writing to folks – like you – who know what they’re doing!