{"id":4905,"date":"2014-05-21T17:19:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T21:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=4905"},"modified":"2016-10-12T15:20:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T19:20:59","slug":"burn-notice-season-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/burn-notice-season-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Burn Notice (season 6)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Spies are trained to deal with catastrophic events. They&#8217;re taught to separate how they feel from what they need to do. But some circumstances are so extreme that separation is impossible. Then, even a seasoned operative will have the same response as everyone else: horror, disbelief, shock.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fiona has allowed herself to be arrested to force Michael to go after Anson. While she&#8217;s in prison, various people try to kill her. Michael makes a deal to see Fiona, and another deal to get her released. When the team is on an off-the-books mission in Panama, someone they thought was on their side betrays them. Michael finally says the words Fiona has been waiting years to hear &#8212; he&#8217;s ready to leave the CIA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Burn Notice<\/strong> season 6 originally aired in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>There are a fair number of deaths in this show, but usually the person who dies is someone we&#8217;ve known for somewhere between an episode and a season. But this time there&#8217;s a death of a character we&#8217;ve known for several seasons.*<\/p>\n<p>There have been a few too many times when someone gets killed just as they&#8217;re about to give Michael the information he needs.<\/p>\n<p>There are lots of great moments this season: typically the great moments are between Michael and Fiona, Michael and Sam, or Michael and his mom. As usual the season ends with a bang.<\/p>\n<p>The funniest line in the series: Fiona tells Michael and Jessie that Sam is &#8220;brilliant&#8221; and then says &#8220;I&#8217;ll never admit that I said that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The moral of this whole story: don&#8217;t become a spy.<\/p>\n<p>John C. McGinley (the TV show <strong>Scrubs<\/strong>) plays Michael&#8217;s old CIA trainer. Lauren Stamile (the TV show <strong>Grey&#8217;s Anatomy<\/strong>) plays Agent Pearce. Kristanna Loken (<strong>Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines<\/strong>) plays Rebecca, another burned spy on Anson&#8217;s payroll. Patton Oswalt (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/the-secret-life-of-walter-mitty\/\"><strong>The Secret Life of Walter Mitty<\/strong><\/a>) plays someone who can smuggle anything.<\/p>\n<p>I previously reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/burn-notice-season-5\/\">season 5<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spoiler alert<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*Nate, Michael&#8217;s brother<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Spies are trained to deal with catastrophic events. They&#8217;re taught to separate how they feel from what they need to do. But some circumstances are so extreme that separation is impossible. Then, even a seasoned operative will have the same response as everyone else: horror, disbelief, shock.&#8221; Fiona has allowed herself to be arrested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[15,5,11],"class_list":["post-4905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-shows","tag-drama","tag-review","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4905"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9626,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions\/9626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}