Customer Reviews

too much fun!
I've read the previously-posted reviews and agree with all of 'em but just want to add that the filming technique (cinematography?) is also so much fun and adds tons of appeal to this show. Lots of stop-action stuff that emphasizes facial reactions to a situation and the chase scenes including the jerky scenery from helicopter height in time to the music--not too much that it's irritating, but enough to make it quite different and fun. The peppy Miami-style music is great and adds to the strong feeling of place which I love in any film or TV show. Great guest stars are so well chosen and perfect for the plots. And casting Bruce Campbell and Sharon Gless was a stroke of genius. And in episode (?) when Sam & Fi introduce themselves as Detectives Cagney and Lacey was just too funny. I haven't been so excited about a new series since "West Wing." Can't wait for the new season!! I recorded 'em all and see stuff I missed every time I re-watch! A lot of action is almost slap-stick but there's a lot of subtle stuff or lines that went so fast I missed 'em the first time around. Did I mention, I CAN'T WAIT for the new season!

One of the best shows available
As something of an amature TV critic, I am a little hard to please. There is so much absolute trash on the broadcast waves today that even before the writer's strike, the good shows were few and far between. With Burn Notice, the USA Network has just embarrassed a great number of the producers making shows on the bigger networks.

For ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX: Take note - you do not need a huge budget to put out a great show. What you need is creativity in the writer's room and a cast that is more than just eyecandy.

After seeing Jefferey Donovan playing the arrogant, weasely, misogynist in comedy/chick-flicks (the most recent, "Hitch" comes to mind), I thought it would be difficult to buy him as a good-guy-spy. He pulls it off nicely without becoming a cartoon.

His friends, however, played by the beautiful Gabrielle Anwar, and the incomparablly funny Bruce Campbell, do tend a little more toward caricatures, but this fits just perfectly to the Michael Westin-straight-man-in-a-looney-world scenario that makes the show tick.

There are very few uncancelled TV shows that come close to this level, much less surpass it. That you may judge the quality of my opinion, I also highly recommend the following, in no particular order:

House M.D. (FOX),
Lost (ABC),
The Unit (NBC),
Battlestar Galactica (SciFi),
Heroes (NBC)

Beyond those, and sporting events of your favorite flavor (I recommend college football, and UFC events), I just do not think anything else is worth a discerning watcher's time. I haven't seen everything, but it doesn't take long to know if you want to invest time in a show, or whether you should give it a "Burn Notice."

-S. Klaft

Love it, love it, love it !!!!!!
Absolutely the best show on tv. Funny, twisting, sly, amazing. Hope it won't become a casualty of the writer's strike.