Burn Notice on USA HD - Page 25

is it just me or is this show getting better and better,this could be the best season yet.

Last season I was beginning to lose some interest as the plots got sillier and the miraculous events to solve problems got dumber. This has been much better though, especially this 2nd episode. Agree with all that Sharon Gless' performance won the day. She and Donovan were very connected in those conflict scenes, very real and raw.

I really dug the mom/son scene. Like everyone has said, it was really well acted. Favorite summer show by far.

though it hasn't been mentioned, the secondary plot, with Fi and the scientist, was very funny, and made a light and humorous tension release from the serious bit of the primary plot with Madeline.

The extreme conflict within Michael was obvious and clear, and he hated to do what he knew he had to do to save the girls. When the pretext was dropped, and he told his mom, "If he moves, shoot him in his good leg." She had no problem with it!

I thought last weeks episode was vintage Burn Notice, one of the best I can remember. Michael's interaction with his mother while she was trying to con the Yakuza prisoner into revealing the location of the kidnapped girls was brilliantly done. It was exciting and more than a little sad. As others have noted, little Fi's scam on the randy Brit scientist was hysterical. It's easy to forget how crazy Fi is and how dangerous she can be, to herself as well as to others.

No, the show is just recycling plotlines from past seasons. Maybe it just appears to be "getting better" because they've had so much practice telling the same stories over and over.

OTOH, what is getting better is the PQ. It's gone from a grainy mess, one of the poorest photographed shows on TV, to something pretty decent now. 'Bout time.

I am having a hard time keeping my wife on board at this point. She wants to bail on this show.

I find myself relaxing my plausibility requirements and just enjoying the show without thinking too hard, treating it like Knight Rider or Dukes of Hazzard when I was a kid.

Okay, it's not that bad. While I won't say it has jumped the shark, Fonzie is reportedly on his way to the marina to catch a ride in a boat.

I guess I'm one of the few that didn't care for this episode, especially due to the mother/son interaction. I thought the acting was a little over-the-top.

Despite some people's opinions - I think that this show is still very fresh and intriguing.

I kinda saw the undercover cop thing coming, yet it still had a great emotional pay-off.

Well, well, well...I was right, Mike gets Offically Reinstated in the CIA next Week. (or so it would seem...)

Was there a new episode tonight? I just checked my DVR and nothing was recorded.

... and odds are that Fi was involved (perhaps unwillingly) with Micheal getting burned. The lady doth protest too much + she was there when he was dumped in Miami.

My D* DVR dumped it too ... fortunately, I checked the guide and noticed it was missing just in time.

I wonder why it didn't record? Fortunately they're replaying it again this Sat. and I manually set my DVR to record it. Always something.

There were some guide issues that caused problems with this week's episode. You may have gotten a duplicate recording of last weeks show, because an episode was IDed incorrectly in the guide last week.

That explains it. My TWC DVR didn't have last night's episode scheduled to record even though it was flagged as new. Luckily I noticed it in the afternoon and I manually set it to record.

I now remember that on Saturday there was a repeat episode of last week's show that my DVR did record.

That isn't always a bad thing. If you do the formula right, it can actually be part of the appeal.

I'll admit, I'm a huge fan of Phineas and Ferb - even with no kids around. Talk about a formula:

- Phineas: "I know what we're going to do today......where's Perry?"
- Perry jumps into some secret passage to mission headquarters to get his orders regarding something Dr. Doofenshmirtz is up to.
- The boys begin a dramatic build, be it an elevator to the moon or a roller coaster through town.
- Isabella shows up with her Fireside Girls troop and asks Phineas "Whatcha doing?"
- Their sister, Candice, makes plans to bust them, all while trying to make plans with her boyfriend, Jeremy.
- Perry shows up at Dr. Doofenshmirtz's Evil Inc. headquarters, gets trapped and has to listen as Doofenshmirtz monologs about his plans for the latest "...inator" he has built in an attempt to rule the tr-state area. This might be a "traffic duplicinator", which causes traffic jams his towing company can clear (for a fee) or a "dehydratinator", which kills his neighbors plants so the doctor's own dying plants won't look so bad.
- The kids finish the build and there is a music montage in the process of enjoying the oceanfront beach in the backyard, finding Atlantis or playing on the largest mini golf course.
- Perry and Doofenshmirtz have a big showdown which results in the the "...inator" being destroyed, but not before being activated...
- Meanwhile, Mom arrives home and Candice attempts to get her to the back yard in time to see what the boys have been up to, but...
-...the activation of the "...inator" causes the boy's build project to disappear without a trace before their mom can see it.
- The boys spot Perry, who by this point has returned home.
- Occasionally, the show may cut to an old man and his wife. The wife is angry that he has made some kind of investment, while lacking an essential ingredient, such as a mini golf course with no golf course or a monkey basketball team with only one monkey. At that moment, the "...inator" results in the golf course dropping onto the property or the monkey being duplicated enough times to create a team.
- Candice is disappointed, but it turns out Jeremy has had a great time with her all day riding the boy's log flume, exploring their funhouse or getting to eat ice cream from cows they took to the moon.

If they do it right, as the show above does, they can literally have the same chain of events every show, yet have it still be entertaining to watch. "House" was built on that principle.

It's a tough line to balance, though. It can easily become "meh", like with the CSI's if not down well.

Ah yes, I do recall for last weeks show the menu description didn't fit the episode. So is the current episode titled "Mind Games?"

I agree that Burn Notice remains quite good. It's as silly as a comic book and sometimes too predictable but still manages to provide not a few surprises. Although this week's show wasn't as good as last week's, which was one the show's all time bests I thought, this week was solid and a lot of fun.

In this week's show, I loved the marvelous twist that put Michael in the position of having to save a real live FBI agent when he thought he was setting up a violent criminal to get killed by his boss. I also liked that Michael, a yogurt junkie if ever there was one, ended up with a client who paid him with a lifetime supply of yogurt. Also, it's nice to see that the Who Burned Michael thread seems in the process of being resurrected.

I liked this last episode as well. I'm not sure if they plan to keep Michael's brother in the cast and the only thing I don't care for this season is that Jesse is not as involved since he now has a job. I'd like to see him more involved in the plot lines.

Separately, the fact that Michael is again going through his files suggests that he may find something that implicates someone else in his being burned. Given how much Fiona wants him to shred everything, I suspect that he may find something about her. She's never liked that he was an agent so maybe she was somehow involved in him getting burned and ending up in Miami where she was.

That would make for some interesting relationship dynamics.

^^^ See post #731

Oops missed that! Great minds think alike.

Add my noodle to the list of greatness. I like that idea too. Wish I had thought of it.

Good episode, was lagging this week to see it.

Heck, even if you don't like the show, it's worth watching for those stunning aerial views of Miami, the beaches, the boats, etc.

Anybody who is new to the show and doesn't realize how much better the PQ is now than it used to be, check out the intro montage which is unchanged from the beginning. The whole show used to look like that! Glad they fixed it but what took them so long? Maybe they finally started reading AVS.

Wade Williams once again showed how good of an actor he can be. He can successfully portray characters that you absolutely hate or absolutely like, and everything in between.

I've watched this show since the beginning and I still love every second of it! Thank God there is something refreshing like this to watch during the summer season.

Agree. The guy is solid. But I'm afraid he was so good as Brad Bellick in 'Prison Break', and a real trouper even after the writers gave him more and more preposterous storylines as the seasons drug on, that I really can't see him as anything else now. Nevertheless, good to see him working.

+1!!!

Good to see him play a good guy for once even if he did start out looking like the bad guy.