I liked Burn Notice better when it was a lightweight episodic series in which he helped a different person each week. The endless storylines about the multiple people and groups that betrayed him are tiresome.
Really, I prefer the single-episode storylines of all of the USA Network programs, but the ongoing storylines (the multi-episode arcs) are boring.
Remember when this show was fun?
Hell, if I can stick with Under the Dome, I can ride this to the end.
I agree mostly with what’s already been said. I liked the “cause of the week”, but this storyline is getting long in the tooth. I hope they clean it up well.
Also, I hope Bruce gets more work after this. Glad to see he’s still got the chops to cut it in prime time.
I stopped watching after he rejoined the CIA. Not just because of the plot line but the stories were getting recycled a lot and getting stale.
The cast really made this show enjoyable. Bruce Campbell, Sharon Gless, and of course Jeffrey Donovan are very good in their roles. I’m not a fan of Gabrielle Anwar. Her acting is just to emotionless and flat. But, the writers never asked that much from her in this series.
My favorite Burn Notice episodes were in the early seasons when he was “hired” to help somebody in trouble. Much like the old The Equalizer series in the 80’s.
I do miss the subtitles: “The client” and so forth. I suspect the early season episodes will be more popular in syndication than these later angst-riden ones. But I’m still enjoying the slow slide into depravity, and not knowing where it is headed.
Same thing happened to X Files. It went from “monster of the week” to “one long tedious conspiracy theory.”
Also, “My Name is Earl” went from “funny small town hicks” to “ridiculous witness protection spy plot is agonizingly boring and insulting to even Randy’s intelligence”.
By the way, I never warmed to Jesse as a member of the crew. I’m not sure why they felt it necessary to expand the core team.
I like how the intro says “Jesse, a down and out spy you met along the way” - uhh… you mean the spy that you burned along the way…
They felt they needed somebody under thirty in the cast. At least it wasn’t a computer nerd or a science-babe.
Mmmm, science-babe.
Really? Because Jesse doesn’t look that young and the actor is 38.
I think he looks younger than the star, and the costars are older than “Michael” ( Donovan is 45), Jesse strikes me as a “late-twenties, served two hitches and got recruited by the company” type of character.
Coby Bell looks pretty young to me. (He looks a lot like I looked in my twenties, minus the bald head).
Bruce Campbell is a little younger than me, so by comparison (Anwar is in her fourties), he’s the young buck. Won’t get young viewers without young cast members, they say.
Me and the wife are watching to the bitter end… but there has been no joy at all this season. Damn depressing.
Oh, there’s still a bit of humor. But it’s gone from A-Team style humor to David Lynch style humor.
Wow, that was actually a pretty good episode. I outright loved how Maddie sacrificed herself, and loved her just sitting there with a cigarette in her hand as she went out. I’m torn though, I kind of think that it might have been better if Mike and Fie had died and Jessie raised Charlie. Though I did like how Sam and Jessie knew someone with a ‘problem’.
The season ended up much better then I had ever hoped. The last half, especially after Michael went though the questioning, was much better then the last couple of seasons had been.