Thank goodness we have each other.
Last week we all collectively lamented how reality TV dominates the television schedule during the summer. I don’t know about you but I kind of found it therapeutic to know so many TV viewers out there shared my reality TV pain.
As with any genre, there’s good reality TV (I can’t [...]
By TIM GOODMAN
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Though “Mad Men” got all the hype last summer — and $25 million in advertising will ensure that the same thing happens again this year — a rival cable series actually performed significantly better in the ratings and has become a cult hit. Unfortunately, entering its second season, USA’s “Burn Notice” [...]
By Ted Cornelius for UGO
Pretty hard to believe that things actually get worse for “burned” covert-operations agent Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan) after last season’s cliffhanger finale. Thought dead by his associates and family, and no closer to finding out who issued the Burn Notice on him (i.e. the official dismissal or discredit of an agent, [...]
Burn Notice’s first season concluded with former spy Michael Weston trapped inside the cargo trailer of an eighteen wheeler. When season two begins tomorrow [Thursday, USA, 10/9C], the little exercise in claustrophobia results in Weston [Jeffrey Donovan] being given an assignment – over the phone – by the mysterious Carla [Tricia Helfer] before the [...]
Read moreIf there is such a thing as a summer blockbuster TV show, it’s USA’s Burn Notice, whose second season premieres this week (Thursday at 10/9c) with a bang–well, several bangs.
The show, which can be both hilarious and thrilling–often in the same scene–centers on former CIA superspy/current private eye Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan), a suave Miami [...]
