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 Even better with time... As with many series that start out good...Burn Notice has gotten even better with time. I was a "only thing worth watching" fan during Season 1...but I refused to miss an episode during Season 2. If you like action, comedy and drama...this is a good one. It makes up for the loss of "Life on Mars". Season two - Just as good as one! I enjoyed the second season just as much as the first! Like some of the other reviewers mentioned I too enjoyed the Fiona / Michael storyline in season one. The sexual tention and flirtatious undertones were fun...it's all still there but now only once in a while.  One of the best and brightest..... With the recent endings of some of the most highly acclaimed shows in television history (The Sopranos, The Wire, The Shield) it might be hard to jump right into something new but take my advice and give this show shot. No weak spots to be found here - everything is pretty much spot on - and be warned you might not be able to turn it off once you watch one episode - its one of those shows that will have you hooked. It may not be on that high level that we've all been spoiled with the last several years but it is definitely the best of whats left. You know spies... bunch of bitchy little girls Burn Notice" also manages not to take itself too seriously, which means it can have guns go off and action galore without being too grittily downbeat. The series is also flippantly comic without being absurd or mocking. That it manages to do this as if the combination were the easiest thing ever is impressive. It's a hipper "Magnum, P.I." with a James Bondian sense of low-key humor. In "Burn Notice," the Westen character is forced to become a kind of mercenary private detective. He wants to find out who burned him and get back in the spy business, but he also has to make a living. He's surrounded by his ex-girlfriend, gun freak and former IRA operative Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar); former Navy SEAL and agency pal Sam (Bruce Campbell); and his mother (Sharon Gless). There's something that works perfectly in the casting. Campbell has always been great, and here he plays what is essentially a layabout ex-operative who was hired by the government to spy on Michael but is up-front about it to his target. Gless gets to play the neurotic mom, which allows Donovan to be funny and tender with her, showing new sides to his Westen character. And Anwar gets to register her legs as lethal weapons and play a tough, emotionally conflicted and dangerous jack-of-all-trades who still has a spark for her former beau. This season "Burn Notice" adds "Battlestar Galactica" actress Tricia Helfer as the woman who either burned him or is working for the people who burned him. (You can bet that Westen will be seeking this answer for seasons to come.) It doesn't matter, really. Westen gets a lot of freelance business and the periodic morsel of information on who outed him, so he keeps moving forward. "Burn Notice" is a clever, quickly paced drama that astutely mixes these various elements into a winning formula. In the best tradition of light but engaging (and highly entertaining) dramas, "Burn Notice" is plain and simple fun - you want to come back every week. And if the series manages to keep up its neat little trick - making diverse tonal shifts seem effortless - it may not stay under anybody's radar much longer, no matter how little USA spends to buy hype | |||||||||||
