Burn Notice, Season 4

I am there.   This show is everything summer TV should be.

Woo-hoo! Looking forward to tomorrow night.

afraid I will miss this and Warehouse 13 this year.  Could no longer afford cable so took my cable box back and just local stations now.  Will have to wait for the dvds.

I believe Burn Notice is also on Hulu

Yep, this show is definitely on Hulu, which is where I'll be watching some of the episodes.

 

As I said in another thread, this marks the start of summer TV for me.

I thought tonight was a strong start to the season. Michael's character has shown some growth and tonight's ep sets up some good stuff for next week and the season.

Good start to the season I thought. 

Agree - It was a great start and I noticed that Tim Matheson had the directing credit for the premiere - cool.

Ironside. Hell yeah. Even if he did die three minutes later.

So far, I like the additions. Vaughn speaking for Management works well -- he's approachable, unlike other contacts that we've seen from Management thus far. It looks like a season of slowly unraveling who the bankroll behind Simon is, while we deal with our regular clients on a weekly basis.

I really enjoyed that they're changing up Michael's relationship with his Mom a bit. She earned some of that trust in the season finale, and it's paying off. Mostly, I loved that Michael accidentally burned another spy. We'll see how much they have this play out, and how serious they get with how hard this should be for Michael.

Just in time, so many shows just had their finales, and Burn Notice rides back to save the day.

Michael accidentally burning someone is further amped up by the statement that management now has him, and in time, he'll be just like Simon. I also like Vaughn. I hope the season maintains the momentum established by the season premiere.

Hopefully, this year will be an improvement on Season 3, which burned through arcs like Management burned through spies. The series getting picked up all the way to the sixth season by USA seems to have given them an appetite to start using a slightly bigger canvas, beginning with this year.

 

They should be careful about not turning this into some kind of jumbled-together Alias-mess, though.

 

Also, it shouldn't be too spoiler-y to know that:

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Good to add a new member to the whole equation, I think.

Another pedestrian start.  The motorcycle gang stuff was pretty lameo. At least it had some good chuckles.

 

The final moment with Michael finding out he burned an agent holds promise though.  Could be a good springboard to an interesting story line with Michael re-examining his priorities as he has just done the very thing he has railed against since the series started.

 

Love the addition of Robert Wisdom.

This looks to be a season long storyline with the other burned spy.  I just don't see how it can turnout well ;)  But, it definitely makes it interesting.

Season extended!

 

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/06/10/burn-notice-royal-pains-seasons-extended-to-18-episodes-in-plain-sights-reduced-to-13-for-medical-reasons/53754

 

Extra episodes this year.  Good news for Burn Notice & Royal Pains fans.

Great to see they went to the burned spy storyline right off the bat even though the closing scene with the death promise was in no way a surprise.

 

Having the Coby Bell character staying with Michael's mom is a nice touch.  Should lead to some interesting moments this season.

Really enjoyed this weeks a lot.   The entire bit with the mob was good stuff. 

Fun episode but it had to get by with making the lead bad guy carry the stupid stick which is always a let down.

 

And the security guard?  Sheesh!  Could they find anyone less sympathetic or rodent like as a client?

I wasn't a huge fan of this weeks episode. It was just ok to me. Lou pointed out a couple of things that also bothered me. It also seems like they are trying so hard to make the new guy sympathetic that they are throwing of the balance of the show.

 

Quick Change with Bill Murray, Geena Davis, Randy Quaid and Jason Robards as the cop pursuing them.   One of my favorite caper films.  I thought of it as soon as Michael suggested passing themselves off as hostages. 
 

Regards,

 

Joe

I really like the show, but having Jesse added as a member of the "team" is already getting kind of old.  To me it just messes with what was fantastic chemistry.  I too immediately thought of Quick Change.  I kept thinking to myself "you should of asked for a monster truck, not the paneled van!"

OK episode.  Really itching for the show to push the characters in new directions though.

They probably need to get deeper into the mystery and the inherent conflict between Jesse and Michael.  Episodes where he is just a fourth team member don't work for me either.

 

The problem is that, dramatically, they have to make Jesse a "part of the family" first, so that when he finds out that Michael is the one who got him burned there is a greater sense of betrayal.  If they don't lay the groundwork for that now, it just won't mean as much when the inevitable moment arrives.  Sure, Jesse wants revenge on the guy who burned him as it is.  But how much worse is he going to hate Michael when he finds out (as he'll see it) that Michael has been using him while "helping" his investigation - and probably laughing at Jesse behind his back (along with Fi and Sam) the whole time.  Once the conflict comes out into the open it has to be wrapped up pretty quickly, because you can't sustain that level of intensity for more than a couple of episodes.  The fuse burns a long time, but the explosion is over pretty quickly.
 

You can't just jump to act three of a story without going through acts one and two.  If you try you just suck the life out of the dramatic payoff. 

 

Regards,

 

Joe