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Burn Notice: "Breaking and Entering" 7/10 - Grading & Discussion

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    Votes: 2 10.5%
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    Votes: 13 68.4%
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Having been recruited by the people who burned him, Michael's new handler, Carla (Tricia Helfer), tasks him with helping a computer tech—Jimmy, whose wife and daughter were kidnapped—liberate some information that is guarded by bowelless mercenaries.
 
Saw a promo for this show for....probably the first time ever, yesterday. So it's a spy series? Good?
 
Saw a promo for this show for....probably the first time ever, yesterday. So it's a spy series? Good?

The first season was excellent, can't say if they are able to keep up the pace in the second season.

The concept sounds rather cheesy, but it's a fun and smart tv-show imo. A ex-secret service agent, somewhat a mixture between McGyver and James Bond, who tries to redeem his damaged reputation and find the people responsible for that; and meanwhile helps people in need with certain problems, like a PI or freelance Rambo, but always in style and gentleman-like. ;)
 
I loved the first season. Won't be home to watch this tonight, but will definitely catch up with it tomorrow.
 
Shows how much I know. I didn't watch it before, even though I've seen the commercials dozens of times, but recently was the first I saw with BC. I might give it a shot.
 
The season premiere is in 30 minutes! And since USA HD is the east coast feed, I can watch it three hours early and still go out afterward while it's still light out! :)
 
I give it an above-average. Good character stuff and a nice plot, but didn't have as much "bang" (no pun intended) for your buck as last season's finale.

But I eagerly look forward to more!
 
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I'm a bit disappointed that nothing changed, that the show simply went back to Miami and basically continued exactly like season one. I expected something a little different.
 
"That still doesn't explain why you didn't write!" :lol:

Having a boss who jovially threatens to kill you is different. Will it work in the long run? Only if in the end Michael really figures out why he wants to be a "spy." The bizarroworld premise is that a covert ops guy is actually a decent human being who will do good things for people. Real spying is about finding out information, not beating people up etc. When Michael finally finds out what it's all about, and gets to go back to "spying," the disjunction between sanity and the show's premise will be impossible to avoid.

In the short run, resetting Fiona/Michael back to zero is kind of arbitrary. And for once, Michael looks kinda stupid.
 
I'm a bit disappointed that nothing changed, that the show simply went back to Miami and basically continued exactly like season one. I expected something a little different.

Well, it is a little different. In Season 1, Michael was working for himself, taking whatever "missions" he wished. Now, Michael is working for someone else who will force him to do whatever they wish.

I almost did not recognize Tricia Helfer. She looked so different than she does in BSG.

While the episode was not as intense as the season 1 finale, it had the same great character chemistry, humor, and action that we got in season 1. Burn Notice seems to be one of those shows where the writing is very consistent. There have not been any real stinkers yet.
 
I almost did not recognize Tricia Helfer. She looked so different than she does in BSG.

She looked a lot more "natural" didn't she?

I watched the first couple of episodes last season but kind of lost track of it, this was a decent episode. This show does two things very well that are often attempted but are hard to pull off: laid-back and cool. When Michael does his little voice-overs they are usually convincing enough to work, so I guess you could add smart in there as well.
 
This was good, I felt it had all the quality of the first season.

His English accent is bloody appalling though, after a few minutes of that I was dieing for him to stop. :lol: It was like a cross between a London accent, a Yorkshire accent and an Australian accent, it kept drifting from one to the other.
 
I thought it was Australian (usually 'mate' = Aussie in US shows), did they state he was specifically supposed to be English?
 
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