{"id":4116,"date":"2013-11-24T18:55:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T23:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=4116"},"modified":"2013-11-25T14:44:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T19:44:27","slug":"burn-notice-season-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/burn-notice-season-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Burn Notice (season 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

{5\/5} “Covert intelligence involves a lot of waiting around. Know what it’s like being a spy? Like sitting in your dentist’s reception area twenty-four hours a day. You read magazines, sip coffee, and every so often someone tries to kill you.”<\/p>\n

Michael Weston is on a mission in Nigeria when his contact tells him there’s a burn notice on him. That means he’s no longer a spy — no employer, no contacts, no money. After getting beat up he manages to get on a plane, which unexpectedly takes him to Miami after he passes out. Fiona, his ex-girlfriend and the emergency contact in his wallet, drops by to see how badly he’s doing.<\/p>\n

He meets up with Sam, his old spy buddy, who’s now living off the rich women he meets. Then his mom Madeline tracks him down. She’s a hypochondriac and asks for a ride to the hospital — of course, to do that he has to steal a car. Michael can’t leave town, so he starts doing investigations to make money. In the meantime, he tries to find out who put out the burn notice on him.<\/p>\n

Burn Notice<\/strong> season 1 originally aired in 2007. The show recently finished its 7-season run. I’d previously seen a couple of episodes and thought they were terrific so now I’m watching the whole thing.<\/p>\n

Every episode is hilarious. It has a similar ratio of comedy to drama as Castle<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Every so often there’s a bit of narration from Michael — it’s always funny, like the quotation at the top.<\/p>\n

Michael knows how to build things he needs out of other things he buys or finds, like the A Team although probably more realistic.<\/p>\n

Each of the four main actors are tremendous — they can all be funny and at least two of them can be dangerous.<\/p>\n

The 12-episode season ends with a 2-part episode in which Michael confronts the man who burned him and Michael, Sam, and Fiona try to stop some blackmailing drug smugglers. Everybody’s in even more danger than usual.<\/p>\n

The music is catchy pop songs (without words).<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Donovan (Changeling<\/strong>) plays Michael and Gabrielle Anwar (Al Pacino’s dance partner in Scent of a Woman<\/strong>) plays Fiona. Bruce Campbell (the TV show\u00a0The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.<\/strong>) plays Sam and Sharon Gless (the TV show Cagney & Lacey<\/strong>) plays Madeline.<\/p>\n

Seth Peterson (the TV show Providence<\/strong>) plays Michael’s brother Nate. Lucy Lawless (the TV show Battlestar Galactica<\/strong>) plays a client in one episode.<\/p>\n

The show was created by Matt Nix (the TV show The Good Guys<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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