A little light refreshment about a wily agent cut loose
Jun 29, 2007 Burn Notice
Looking for something new and different on TV? It’s not Burn Notice.
Looking for some summertime fun? It is Burn Notice, premiering at 10 p.m. tomorrow on cable’s USA.
It combines the lively silliness from scores of shows that have gone before: The Rockford Files, MacGyver, Moonlighting, The Equalizer, Miami Vice, even Everybody Loves Raymond. Yeah, that’s only six, but it’s summer, and nobody should expect extensive research on a piece of fluff like this.
Do-it-yourselfers
can add all the shows that used a little behind-the-scenes narration,
and on-screen captions to identify new characters, and ongoing
mysteries, and spry escapades where lots of people get hurt but nobody
dies, and a sharp pro aiding the downtrodden, and cuts to girls in
bikinis, and car chases, and colorful low- and high-life personalities
who popped up all the time.
Tomorrow, there’s Sugar, the drug
dealer, and Walter, the art dealer, and Vince, the not-so-competent
security guy. But after all, who can be competent against the
special-ops, street-savvy dynamo who is Michael Western?
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