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 [...]
To the obsessive-compulsive detective of “Monk” and the frankly fake
psychic of “Psych,” the USA Network is about to add the irreverent spy
of “Burn Notice.”
Too bad they couldn’t come up with a catchy one-syllable title -
“Mole”? – because this new series and its brash, breezy hero slide
smoothly into the crime-and-comedy genre the cable channel does so [...]
Victoria in Chicago: The previews for Burn Notice on USA look pretty good, plus Jeffrey Donovan is never bad to look at. Have you heard anything about this show? Worth watching?
It’s a fun show, and oddly believable for being about a freelance spy trapped in Miami with his neurotic mother. The main character, Michael Westen, [...]
Time flies by when you’re having fun watching the extended premiere of USA’s breezy new spy romp, “Burn Notice.”
Yet this is one of those pilot episodes that makes you wonder whether they can sustain the zippy pace, not to mention the production values, week after week. Tonight’s 70-minute thrill-o-rama has fight scenes, car chases, gunplay [...]
South Florida is unbeatable as a setting for a TV series. But first you need a show. Miami Vice understood this. Few, if any, of the copycats do. Burn Notice is the latest example. The area is as alluring as ever but everything else about the USA series, save maybe the cavalcade of fleshy scene-setters, [...]
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