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Burn Notice - February 18th
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2/19/2010 2:05:00 PM
Burn Notice has long been one of my favorite shows, and since premiering on USA three seasons ago I've been watching. It's a show that has it all. Humor, family, amazing chemistry between the actors, explosions, and the bad guy getting what they deserve.
It's always been a rollercoaster of action too, from Michael needing to figure out who burned him, all the way to his dramatic dive out of a helicopter toward freedom. Since getting his freedom though, the show has been forced to go into new directions. It still delivers what you expect; Michael gets a job, helps the person, and there's a bit more added onto whatever main story he's been working on.
I was personally really excited when they brought in the newest villain, Gilroy, protrayed by the amazing Chris Vance. Chris was amazing on the short lived FOX show "Mental" (which in all fairness what FOX show isn't shortlived these days). I loved that show, and I was looking forward to what he could bring to Burn Notice. Sadly, I'm sort of disappointed. They could be doing a lot more with him, and he's been turned into a background string-puller. It gives him a bit more of an upper-hand type persona, but it also makes him seem exactly the same as Strickler. That smug, "You'll do it because I need you to." attitude is a bit tiring on the series.
That said, last nights episode was the first one where I almost didn't think Michael was going to pull it off. The fact that the client was one of Sam's and that she died relatively quickly, put the entire episode into a different area that we haven't seen in a while. It made the action feel a bit more desperate, which wasn't a bad thing. Jeffrey Donovan's work with accents, as usual, was amazing and I wouldn't mind seeing him cast as a Russian Spy in some future Bond film. Truthfully, putting him in a Bond film would be better if he was Bond, but I'll take him in a tuxedo looking like he could kill a man with a glance any day.
The Gilroy story though, once more, seemed to not have that much going on. He's setting up some big deal and once more Michael is paired with the guy he'd normally be taking down. It's a well-worn premise on the show and I'm just waiting for Michael, just once, to tell the guy off in the first meeting and just take over his scheme and run it into the ground early.
The great thing, though, is that I'm hoping with only two episodes left in the season all the slowness will pay off. I'm hoping for two episodes of gut-wrenching suspense and action. I want some huge explosions, some running great distances and let's get Maddie in on the action while we're at it. The woman is practically part of the team already. (She's fantastic at getting intel.)
We'll see how it pans out, but if the final two are anything like the last two -- I'm not sure it's going to have the same impact the last two finales have had. I'll see, and I'm sure that at the very least I'll get two hours of Gabrielle Anwar looking gorgeous and holding a gun, Jeffrey Donovan in a suit trying to save someone's life, and Bruce Campbell being charming and providing that level of humor and balance that the show survives on.
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Christina Lynn
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