Burn Notice

By J.E. Character Development: Fiona doesn’t trust Strickler and cannot understand why Michael does. She thinks Michael has changed since getting involved with Strickler (that slap he laid on her might have had something to do with it). She refuses to stand by while Michael goes down this road, s...

By Myles White Collar is the latest show to join this stable, and at first glance it is also one of their best. Borrowing heavily from Catch Me if You Can and Burn Notice, the show eschews explosions in favour of a more sly sort of series. Rather than following someone applying professional skills in an...

By J.E. Odd Job of the Week: Michael hears from Strickler that a Ukrainian named Chechik, an old enemy of Mike’s, is in town. He’s looking for Michael in order to exact revenge for the old problem. Strickler just happens to have some Russian friends who would be delighted if Chechik was taken care of,...

By midge(noreply@blogger.com) Here are the highlights. I had the distinct honor of sitting in on a conference call with Bruce Campbell and Sharon Gless of 'Burn Notice'. I had the even more distinct honor of asking them a question. How great are those two actors? It was quite telling; any 'Burn Notice' fan I told that I was par...

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 06.30 Michael And Michael Have Issues 07.00 In Plain Sight 08.00 Burn Notice Michael And Michael Have Issues. Episode 2. "Biederman's Birthday" Buying drugs. One of the best shows on TV. Burn Notice. Season 3, Episode 9. "Long Way Back" There's a guy in town who wants to kill Fiona. Episode highlights? Anytime the script (by Craig S. O'Neill) calls for Jeffrey Donovan and Gabrielle Anwar to gaze into one anther's eyes with love and passion and pain and confusion... Highlight? Burn Notice (Michael and Fiona) Yet Another TV Review Podcast Yet Another TV Review Book Yet Another Film Review Blog Follow Me on Twitter One Year Ago   [read the full post]

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 06.30 Michael And Michael Have Issues 07.00 In Plain Sight 08.00 Burn Notice 09.00 Community Michael And Michael Have Issues. Episode 1. "Greg The Intern" I love it. Burn Notice. Season 3, Episode 8. "Friends Like These" Recurring character Barry needs help. The absolute highlight of this episode came when Michael (while undercover) slapped Fiona on the face when she wasn't expecting it. That moment, and their exchanges afterwards, are a prime example of why Burn Notice is more than just a fun action-adventure show. It's got superb central characters and writers who know how to bring humanity and depth to these people. I laughed and I liked. And I want to see more.   [read the full post]

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 07.30 Arrested Development 08.00 In Plain Sight 09.00 Burn Notice 10.00 Party Down 11.00 Dark Skies 01.00 Harvey Birdman 01.15 Harvey Birdman Burn Notice. Season 3, Episode 6. "The Hunter" Kidnapped and hunted through the Everglades. Party Down. Episode 9. "James Rolf High School Twentieth Reunion" Ron works his own high school reunion. Kyle Bornheimer is underused in a brief cameo. Want to see more of this very funny guy! In the final quarter of the movie, John has to risk all to save his lady, and - having done that - he and Kim go on the run. From Majestic 12, and the aliens. Highlight? Burn Notice (another change-of-pace episode) Yet Another TV Review Podcast Yet Another TV Review Book Yet Another Film Review Blog Follow Me on Twitter   [read the full post]

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 05.00 Burn Notice 07.30 Arrested Development 08.00 Warehouse 13 Burn Notice. Season 3, Episode 5. "Signals and Codes" Someone is killing spies. Michael gets a tip-off from a very unusual source and sets out to put a stop to it. Also, unlike your typical episode of Burn Notice, it takes forever for the story-of-the-week to get up and running. Partly because the client is written/played as a nut job and it takes Michael and his team a long time to see that he is telling the truth. The problem with this is: the audience at home knows he's telling the truth (otherwise there will be no story this week!) so the long-delay winning Michael over is boring and time consuming.   [read the full post]

By TV Obsessed(x.tvobsessed.x@gmail.com) After last week's slightly disappointing episode, the show certainly redeemed himself. The episode begins with Michael training with Fi and she actually hits him in the face. I'm guessing this is leading to the all-out slugfest that was in spoilers somewhere on this site. Anyways, Michae...

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 07.00 Arrested Development 08.00 In Plain Sight 09.00 Burn Notice 10.00 Party Down Arrested Development. Episode 3. "Bringing Up Buster" Buster comes to work with Michael. George Michael tries out for the school play. As well as being supremely funny, this is a rather sweet episode. The core of it revolves around Michael's relationship with his son, and the ending contains dialogue that is genuinely sweet and moving. And a little cornball. Burn Notice. Season 3, Episode 3. "End Run" Brennen (Jay Karnes) returns, holds Michael's brother hostage and forces Michael to do some dirty work for him. This is one of the things that makes Michael stand out from the crowd: he is smart, and he wins by being smarter than the bad guy.   [read the full post]

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 07.00 Arrested Development 08.00 In Plain Sight 11.30 Burn Notice Arrested Development. Episode 10. "Pier Pressure" Michael sets up an elaborate sting operation to keep his son off drugs. There's much to love here, but I'm particular impressed by Mary's hate/hate relationship with Eleanor. Burn Notice. Season 3, Episode 4. "Fearless Leader" Michael goes after a bad guy, as a means towards getting the police off his back. It's a clever, fun story and an example of Burn Notice at it's best. Highlight? Burn Notice (clever) Yet Another TV Review Podcast Yet Another TV Review Book Yet Another Film Review Blog Follow Me on Twitter   [read the full post]

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 06.30 My Boys 07.00 In Plain Sight 08.00 Burn Notice 09.30 Party Down Huh? Burn Notice. Season 3, Episode 2. "Question and Answer" Kidnapped child. Also worth noting: the wonderful Moon Bloodgood joins the cast in this one, and she gets more to do here than she did in the first six episodes of (the also very wonderful) Journeyman. Oh! Nearly forgot! I have to add that I simply adore Gabrielle Anwar. Not because, thanks to her, Fiona is sexy and hot and stuff but because, thanks to her, Fiona is so cute and so sweet. Her pointed-remarks at Michael - with regard to them being a couple again, etc. - are both funny and genuinely charming.   [read the full post]

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By Baudyhallee Review by baudyhallee,  Multipleverses Moderator and Reviewer. FRIENDS AND FAMILY Season 3 Episode 1 Written by Matt Nix (the creator of the series) and directed by Tim Matheson.  Yea, Tim! Jeffrey Donovan is sporting a producer credit now. This season premiere picks up where season 2’s finale left off.  Michael is still swimming towards Miami after leaping from a helicopter.  He left his infamous shades with the Management who had been protecting him from the cops and foreign agencies.  Season 3 appears to be about how Michael will survive on his own without any agency protection of any kind and no identity to mention.   He is not alone.  He has . . . friends and family. Everything we love about Burn Notice is in this episode.  Michael has the heart of...   [read the full post]

By Baudyhallee Burn Notice Questions and Answers Review Season 3 Episode 2  — Questions and Answers Written by Alfredo Barrios, Jr. and directed by John Kretchmer. Interesting fact about Mr. Kretchmer, he’s directed the most BN episodes so far and he has also directed shows such as: Veronica Mars, Charmed, Hercules, Buffy, Xena and even an episode of Lois and Clark. His body of work is very impressive. Tonight’s episode opens with Michael working out and recharging because ‘you never know what’s just around the corner.’ Good thinking for a burned operative with absolutely no support. Fi has found work rounding up perps for a bail bondsman. And we are introduced to Detective Paxson of the Miami PD played by Moon Bloodgood (recently seen in the movie, Terminat...   [read the full post]

By asepinwall@starledger.com (Alan Sepinwall) Spoilers for tonight's "Burn Notice" coming up just as soon as I snort lactose..."Loving Michael is always trench warfare." -Madeline"Question and Answer" continues to get good mileage out of Michael being a man without a country, or a protector, by introducing Moon Bloodgood as Detectiv...

We previously reported that this third season of USA Network's Burn Notice will focus on the murky pasts of Michael, Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar), and Sam (Bruce Campbell). Bloodgood, meanwhile, 33, is best known for her role as Lt. Blair Williams in the ...

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 06.30 My Boys 07.00 In Plain Sight 08.00 Burn Notice 09.00 Party Down Burn Notice. Season 3, Episode 1. "Friends and Family" Michael adjusts to being out in the open (his name is now appearing on databases everywhere) and tries to help an old 'friend' kidnap a bad guy. As for the change in the show's status quo, it might be one of the best that I have ever seen on an ongoing television series. Why? Well, for all the talk of Michael being out in the open and his old enemies being able to get to him now, etc., the show is - I predict - not actually going to change at all. It's still going to be Michael going up against a succession of clever, nasty bad guys and outwitting them in unexpected/delightful ways.   [read the full post]

By asepinwall@starledger.com (Alan Sepinwall) Getting back to Michael as the geeky chemist, how long did it take you to realize just how much range Jeffrey (Donovan) could show in these undercover identities? It felt like it took you a while to get a handle on writing both Fiona and Madeline, where Michael and Sam were more fully-formed....

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By Tempo Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan) is a former international spy who was unexpectedly “burned,” or blacklisted, by his former employers. He ended up in Miami doing odd jobs, which usually consist of helping ordinary folks out of jams that threaten their bank accounts or their lives.

But USA Network has crafted a new series, Royal Pains, that is a spiritual clone of the cable channel's popular series about wayward spy Michael Westen, Miami-based Burn Notice. • Let's see how the old show (returning at 9 pm Thursday) and the new show ...

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 05.30 My Boys 06.00 In Plain Sight 07.00 Burn Notice 08.00 Party Down Burn Notice. Season 2, Episode 16. "Lesser Evil" Michael teams with Victor and goes after Carla. Who comes after them, with all guns blazing. Carla met her demise in this episode. It was, I felt, a bit too low-key. It was satisfying to see her brought down by a sniper shot from Fiona (I'm so in love with Fiona right now) but it was over a bit too soon. Shouldn't we bet to see Carla suffer a bit, register her defeat for a while before the kill shot? Highlight? Burn Notice (full hour of action) Yet Another TV Review Podcast Yet Another TV Review Book Yet Another Film Review Blog Twitter   [read the full post]

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 06.00 My Boys 06.30 Burn Notice 07.30 In Plain Sight 08.30 The Listener Burn Notice. Season 2, Episode 15. "Sins of Omission" Michael's ex-fiancée shows up needing help. Michael's ex-fiancée!?!?! Let's just run down the cast of this episode: You have Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, Sharon Gless and Bruce Campbell in the regular cast, you have Michael Shanks and Tricia Helfer as semi-regulars, and the episode throws in Dina Meyer and Jay Karnes as guest stars. Frak! And here they all are, appearing in the same episode of Burn Notice. Highlight? Burn Notice (awesome cast) Yet Another TV Review Podcast Yet Another TV Review Book Yet Another Film Review Blog   [read the full post]

By Tempo Some random musings and bits of news. I posted most of these links on my Twitter feed, but I'm not going to belabor that point, because if I see one more story about Twitter in the mainstream media, my head is going to explode. Anyhow, here goes: The exact date is not definite yet, but it looks lik...

By Tempo Some random musings and bits of news. I posted most of these links on my Twitter feed, but I'm not going to belabor that point, because if I see one more story about Twitter in the mainstream media, my head is going to explode. Anyhow, here goes: The exact date is not definite yet, but it looks lik...

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 06.00 Burn Notice 07.00 In Plain Sight 08.00 Damages 03.30 WKRP In Cincinnati Burn Notice. Season 2, Episode 13. "Bad Breaks" Michael gets taken hostage during a bank robbery. Superb change-of-pace episode. It is nothing like a typical episode of the show, but it still manages to bring all the stuff to the table that Burn Notice manages to do. Even though he's just a hostage, Michael still manages to set up several tricks and cons. The ending (where Sam phones up the lead bad guy and fools him into thinking he has stumbled into the middle of something much bigger than himself) is extremely clever and satisfying. Cool.   [read the full post]

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) Burn Notice. Season 2, Episode 12. "Seek and Destroy" Michael goes up against a nasty arms dealer. Such a clever episode from this wonderful, fun show. Most episodes stick to a rigid formula: Michael meets his client, Michael poses as somebody and meets the bad guy, Michael runs a scam on the bad guy and wins. End of episode. This episode cleverly, and easily, flips the middle part and puts it first. Michael needs money so he poses as a security expert and gets himself a job. By the middle part of the episode he's found out what is really going on and meets his real client for the first time. From then on it is business as usual, until the happy conclusion. Also, there's some nice continuity with Michael and Fiona after the romance last week...   [read the full post]

We get to see Fiona break out her French and Sam play the sniper and rescue Michael from a tense situation with the Haitians. It’s fun for everyone when the good guys can make the bad guys look like total bumbling idiots. In the best voiceover spy tip ...

By Stephanie Sigafoos Q: Alright.  Fair enough.  I also love the on-screen chemistry with Fiona and Sam.  I was wondering, what’s the best part of doing scenes with Bruce Campbell? Q: One quick follow-up then, if Michael and Fiona wouldn’t have a traditional relationship, what would a Michael/Fiona relationsh...

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By tara In case you’re unfamiliar with this clever series, Jeffrey Donovan plays Michael Westen, a blacklisted spy trapped in exile in Miami without money or most of his resources after he gets burned and becomes a target himself. Michael takes odd jobs with the help of his friends Fiona (Gabriel...

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 05.00 Burn Notice 06.00 In Plain Sight 07.00 Kolchak: The Night Stalker 08.00 Rising Damp 02.00 WKRP in Cincinnati Burn Notice. Season 2, Episode 10. "Do No Harm" A scam artist (Stacy Haiduk) steals from the father of a sick child. The story that follows is good. It doesn't follow the usual Burn Notice pattern. In fact, things don't fall into place for much of it and it looks as if this is one time that Michael won't be able to get the job done (towards the end he looks set to go to his enemy Carla to get the money needed). A cool hero (who cares about the problems of ordinary people) and an exciting story: Burn Notice is back.   [read the full post]

By Sheldon A. Wiebe BC: Well Sam never liked Carla. Otherwise, Matt Nix would send Michael Westen to kill me if I told you more. But yes, some stuff is going to go down. Congratulations on the third season renewal. Have you ever been approached or are you ever going to direct any episodes of Burn Notice yourself?

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 06.00 Dexter 07.00 Friday Night Lights 08.00 Burn Notice 09.00 The Venture Bros. 09.30 Rising Damp 10.00 The Office 10.30 Corner Gas It's been a great season. Better than the first. What's next for Dexter? Burn Notice. Season 2, Episode 9. "Good Soldier" The case-of-the-week is a delight. Michael joins a gang planning a kidnapping and tries to derail the plot by being an uncooperative religious fanatic. The ending (when he rams the kidnapper's car from out of nowhere) is superb. And hilarious (as he spouts off a spiel of made-up religious-sounding guff to fool them). Highlight? Dexter (great conclusion) Yet Another TV Review Podcast Yet Another TV Review Book Yet Another Film Review Blog One Year Ago   [read the full post]

By gertiebeth WCT: Then there’s Burn Notice, which I like primarily because the chemistry you have with Sharon Gless, Gabrielle Anwar and Bruce Campbell is very palpable. [ Donovan smiles. ] I’m sure everyone’s been asking you what it’s like to work with Angelina Jolie or Clint Eastwood, but what’s it li...

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 06.00 Dexter 07.00 Friday Night Lights 08.00 Burn Notice 09.00 The Venture Bros. 09.30 Rising Damp 10.00 The Office 10.30 Corner Gas Burn Notice. Season 2, Episode 8. "Double Booked" Burn Notice breaks from formula and delivers one of it's most enjoyable episodes. A hit-man calls Michael and offers him a hit! So, rather than having a client from the start, Michael is 'working for' the bad guy. So he has to find a way to save the target, without tipping off the hit-man (Tim Matheson, who also directed the episode). Highlight? Burn Notice (nice break from formula) Yet Another TV Review Podcast Yet Another TV Review Book Yet Another Film Review Blog One Year Ago   [read the full post]

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By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 05.30 Dexter 06.30 Friday Night Lights 07.30 Burn Notice 08.30 Rising Damp 09.00 The Office 09.30 Corner Gas Dexter. Season 2, Episode 10. "There's Something About Harry" There's a lot of great stuff in this episode, but all I wanted to see was Dexter and Doakes. How can the show get out of this? I mean, Dexter likes Doakes. He can't actually kill him and still be our hero? Can he? At the mid-way point the episode makes you think that Dexter has actually decided to do the deed. But it proves to be - yet another - red-herring. The show has gotten really good at doing these. As usual, it's clever and funny. Michael even gets to be a little jealous of Fiona's mysterious date and Sharon Gless (normally underused) gets several great scenes. Funny lady.   [read the full post]

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 05.30 Dexter 06.30 Burn Notice 09.00 The Office 09.30 Corner Gas Dexter (quickly) realises that he cannot trust Lila and brings their relationship to an ending (after she breaks into Rita's house). It's a show about a serial killer and his new girlfriend is the scary character in it. Burn Notice. Season 2, Episode 6. "Bad Blood" An unrecognisable, but brilliant, Michael Shanks dominates this episode as the new recurring bad guy who shows up to blackmail Michael into doing some bad things for the bad people who are responsible for Michael's burn notice. All of this badness is actually very good. Especially Shanks. Highlight? Dexter (What the frak happens next?) Yet Another TV Review Podcast Yet Another TV Review Book Yet Another Film Review Blog   [read the full post]

The cute way that Virgil and Madeline and everyone was playing off their relationship really didn’t work for me. Michael had a point about Virgil attracting bullets and was doing what any good son should. It didn’t make sense that Virgil would ask Mike for a favor and still push so hard to get w...

By Amy Vernon Last week's Burn Notice was good. Interesting, the overarching plot moved ahead a teensy bit, the humor was there … blah, blah, blah. But I couldn't put my finger on the reason why it was so difficult for me to blog about it. I've enjoyed the last few episodes of BN, but I just don't, well, care.

By Myles When it comes to integrating the Carla storyline, it is generally used in one of two things thus far in Burn Notice’s second season: either to allow Michael opportunities to show off various skills and technologies that aren’t really applicable to normal missions, and to serve as a distr...

By J.E. Burn Notice Progress: As I said above, Michael found out very little additional information about Carla and/or his burn notice. Carla’s file was heavily redacted, of course, but Michael was able to piece together the fact that her cover while working overseas was an agricultural specia...

I would be lying if I said writing this book wasn't a challenge. It absolutely was. I've never written a traditional crime novel. Anyone who has read my work in the past will tell you that linear storytelling isn't exactly my calling card. Nor is having a narrator who is reliable. Of course I've wr...

I had spent a bit of time wondering what direction this show might take. Would Michael be still somehow stuck on Miami? Would he still be there to help his local Miamians with their problems? Then, on my conference call with Jeffrey Donovan and Bruce Campbell, who plays Michael’s friend Sam...

By GeekBoy 2) The B-Team - “If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire …” Well, the A-Team isn’t around any more. But if you live in Miami, and you happen to know somebody who knows somebody who knows Michael Westen, then maybe you can hire the Burn Notice Team —...

By danielquenton The plot: The main plot is Michael trying to find out who burnt him and to get reinstated as a spy (independent contractor?) for the U.S. government. And there are the subplots, one each episode, which basically is, receiving a job and executing it. They’re all very nicely written and they work...

By midmull Fiona - well, she’s hot. All T&A AND brains. It shows and the character is very well written. She’s obviously necessary as a counter-point to Michael’s very confident self - he needs someone like her to keep him down to earth, to make him approachable. Once again, their relationship is ver...

By MysterLynch(noreply@blogger.com) Hanging with Michael is his buddy Sam (delightfully played by B film icon Bruce Campbell), a semi-retired intelligence agent that spends most of his time drinking and leering at young ladies, and his ex-girlfriend Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar) a former IRA agent turned gun runner.

By Mel Odom The premiere of Burn Notice was a commercial-free hour-plus of great television. Partnered with DirecTV, NBC Universal has released its latest summer replacement series on the USA Network. The season will run twelve episodes, as of this writing.