Very fun mindless little series. My wife and I are addicted.
Thoughts:
I love Sam. It would be so easy for the writers to use him as a comic relief sidekick, but he’s truly a badass in his own right. He stood up to extended torture admirably.
I wish they’d chosen a different city than Miami. This is a complaint I have about lots of shows, actually. Miami is just not as interesting to me as, say, New Orleans (and K’ville is an abortion.)
Snappy dialogue and action. Tight, hooky plots. It doesn’t take itself as seriously as, say, X-Files. There aren’t “plot” episodes and “one-off” episodes. Rather, they mix the two in every episodes. Sure, it can get a little gimmicky, but it’s a fun ride.
I love the cynical, jaded “dysfunctional MacGuyver” approach. When he was standing there smiling as the kid he’d coached on self-defense beat the shit out of the local bully, I knew I was going to like the show. No " make love, not war" moral lessons.
I can’t thank you enough, bordelond, for starting this thread in June so that I would know about the show in the first place. It fast became one of my husband’s favorites and he’s not sure how he’s going to last until next summer.
. The show is “smart” in the good sense of the word. Snappy, funny, poignant at times, but not too much. It’s the return of the 80’s action movie as television and in a good way.
I’ll watch it next summer.
The anorectic IRA chick needs to go, though.
There’s that. But when the lead female doesn’t lead my mind to thinking about having mindless sex, she’s not working for me, as intended by the producers. YMMV.
I was very hopeful about this show, and watched maybe the first 5 episodes. It was too smart-alecky for me, and too much of a rip off of Magnum P.I. I gave up. I think Mad Men is a much better series, btw, even if it’s a little over the top at times.
I’d do her.
This show occupies a large hunk of my Tivo space right now. One of these days we are going to sit down and get caught up, after missing half the season for various reasons. I’m hooked on this show, though. Looking forward to the new season, sometime before the next Ice Age.
We also loved it, mostly for the snark. There were a lot of lines that would have gone nowhere without the twist Micheal or Sam put on them.
I couldn’t wait for Sharon Gless to leave. Her voice just irritates the heck out of me. I kind of liked the brother, though.
Do you think the dad was also a spy?
And I agree, what in the world are they thinking to leave this to next summer? Although the fact that a show I like is getting a second season should be enough to make me happy – I was 0 for 3 last season.
I’m with you. I thought it was way too obvious to have her come into the picture just as the two FBI guys were leaving, and figured for sure she’d start to become very important on the show, but we haven’t seen her since.
I’m convinced she’s coming back in a big way.
I believe they just got picked up for a second season a few weeks ago. So it’s probably going to take the producers until next summer to get another season’s worth of episodes shot.
A funny thing about shooting in Miami. I was watching the first season of Dexter (also shot in Miami) and there were a couple of actors that crossed over to Burn Notice. The con man on the boat was Dexter’s girlfriend’s ex-husband and the guy that was getting framed by his rich boss was one of Dexter’s co-workers. I guess it’s good that Miami actors are getting work.
(It’s kind of like the NY actors who were convicts on Oz are now good guys on Law and Order. And sorry, Christopher Meloni will always be a gay serial killer in my heart.)
I love this show. I like that no one is too pretty, or too stupid, or too…well too anything. It’s actually a pretty three-dimensional cast. I like it that his brother is a loser, but not so much. Or that Sam is a whore, but not really. That his mother is nag, but then again isn’t. I also like that the plots are really well developed.
But the part I like best? The science is solid. This show has way better science then that stupid CSI, and it doesn’t even pretend to be a “sciency” show.
Thirteen more episodes: YEA! Waiting for summer: Damn!
Football – and life in general – have lead me to miss about the last third of the season. USA will continue the show in reruns until next summer, I can assume?
