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Burn Notice: season 3, episode 9
“Long Way Back”
August 6, 2009 - 11:08p.m.
Tonight we come to the end of a basically entertaining if at times a little scattered Burn Notice half-season. As Matt Nix and his writers have been figuring out the next phase of the show, post-Carla, they’ve thrown a ...
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Burn Notice: season 3, episode 8
“Friends Like These”
July 30, 2009 - 10:07p.m.
And so the Strickler plot begins in earnest! Sort of.
As I’ve said many times in these Burn Notice write-ups, I’m not overly invested in the show’s ongoing story. If the master-plot weaves into the case-of-the-week well ...
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Burn Notice: season 3, episode 7
“Shot In The Dark”
July 23, 2009 - 09:07p.m.
This week’s Burn Notice fits nicely with my blog post earlier today about “modern inconveniences.” Michael Westen has always excelled at turning technology against the people who rely on it, and even the title of this episode—“Shot In ...
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Burn Notice: season 3, episode 6
“The Hunter”
July 16, 2009 - 10:07p.m.
And so we meet the second new major character of the season. Before Burn Notice Season Three began, I read that in addition to Moon Bloodgood’s turn as Detective Paxson, we’d also soon be meeting Tom Strickler (played ...
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Burn Notice: season 3, episode 5
“Signals And Codes”
July 9, 2009 - 10:07p.m.
Apparently it’s not just local law enforcement and disgruntled crooks that Michael's secret benefactors have been keeping off of his doorstep since he was dumped in Miami; they’ve been keeping the crazies at bay too. In tonight ...
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Burn Notice: season 3, episode 4
“Fearless Leader”
June 25, 2009 - 09:06p.m.
After waxing so complimentary about last week’s Burn Notice—both here and on my Twitter feed—I decided to go back and re-watch “End Run” over the weekend, to see if it held up to my heady claims. In ...
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Burn Notice: season 3, episode 3
“End Run”
June 18, 2009 - 10:06p.m.
I just got back from short family vacation—with as much swimming, ice cream, rollercoasters and museum-going as we could fit into a 36-hour stretch—but watching tonight’s Burn Notice made me feel like I was still luxuriating in ...
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Burn Notice: season 3, episode 2
“Question & Answer”
June 11, 2009 - 09:06p.m.
Judging by tonight’s Burn Notice episode “Question & Answer,” creator Matt Nix and company spent some time during the hiatus making a list of all the lingering questions the show’s fans have had about some of Burn Notice’s ...
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Burn Notice: season 3, episode 1
“Friends And Family”
June 4, 2009 - 10:06p.m.
It took me roughly one minute to get back in the Burn Notice mood. Picking up where last season’s finale left off, “Friends And Family” began with Michael literally at sea, swimming five miles back to Miami Beach in ...
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Burn Notice: season 2, episode 16
“Lesser Evil”
March 5, 2009 - 11:03a.m.
The first episode of Burn Notice’s second season opened with Michael Westen captured by a spookily resourceful operative named Carla, who was looking to recruit him—or more accurately, impress him—into her shadowy organization. It also began with ... -
Burn Notice: season 2, episode 15
“Sins Of Omission”
February 26, 2009 - 10:02a.m.
So now we’re moving into master-plot mode, locked so tightly on next week’s finale that even the client-of-the-week story dovetails with Michael’s ongoing efforts to find out who burned him (via his unwilling conscription into Carla’s ... -
Burn Notice: season 2, episode 14
"Truth And Reconciliation"
February 19, 2009 - 04:02p.m.
Last week in the comments, some of you made the point that Burn Notice is a great show to bridge from the week to the weekend, and I think that’s a good way of looking at it. Here in ... -
Burn Notice: season 2, episode 13
“Bad Breaks”
February 12, 2009 - 04:02p.m.
Well that was a wild one, huh?For about the first ten minutes of tonight’s Burn Notice, I was mildly befuddled, trying to figure out why the show had completely abandoned its master-plot in favor of two unrelated stories ... -
Burn Notice: season 2, episode 12
“Seek And Destroy”
February 5, 2009 - 04:02p.m.
A couple of weeks ago, I said that Burn Notice reminds me a lot of a dime novel with snazzy cover art, but that’s not the only pop culture artifact that BN resembles. It also recalls some or the ... -
Burn Notice: season 2, episode 11
“Hot Spot”
January 29, 2009 - 04:01p.m.
I’ve been contemplating the best way to cover Burn Notice, since it’s not the kind of show that demands a lot of thematic unpacking, like Mad Men, nor is it the kind of show with a dense mythology ... -
Burn Notice: season 2, episode 10
"Do No Harm"
January 22, 2009 - 05:01p.m.
At some point during the first half of Burn Notice’s awesome second season, I had a revelation about what this show is. It’s like a shiny, modernized, HD version of the kind of dimestore pulps my buddy Keith ... -
Burn Notice: season 2, episode 1
"Breaking And Entering"
July 11, 2008 - 04:07p.m.
Over the past five years, network television has been awash in mythology-heavy adventure series, soapy serio-comedies and one-week-at-a-time procedurals, so it's been left to basic cable to pick up the slack and air the kind of character-driven mysteries and ...
