![]() ![]() ![]() Thankfully the writers kept this season fresh without a lot of ending season gimmicks. Was Kendrick ultimately “doing good” or was he a villain? Would Michael be justified in a continued support of Kendrick’s causes, or would the other villains–the CIA–win out in the end? Who would Michael eventually side with? With the penultimate episode and the finale last night, all of the questions posed over the past year, and even over the entire series, were laid to rest. If there was one storyline this season that almost turned us off it was leaving viewers to figure out what were the motivations of Kendrick, although Pyper-Ferguson managed to give us the best layered villain of the past several seasons. Thursday night’s series finale even featured a small role for genre favorite Alan Ruck as a scientist working for this season’s villain James Kendrick, played by John Pyper-Ferguson. Veronica Mars and CW’s Cult lead actress Alona Tal was also a welcome and interesting addition this year as Russian spy Sonya. Coleman was believable and likeable, in contrast with the misery the series put us through with Jere Burns’ black hat villain Anson Fullerton last season. Heroes’ Jack Coleman, featured throughout the year as Michael’s CIA handler Andrew Strong, was the best featured character to come along since Coby Bell signed on as Jesse Porter in Season 4. Much credit goes to some superb casting this year. The ramifications of Jeffrey Donovan’s Michael Westen getting a burn notice, blacklisting him and leaving him with nothing: no cash, no credit, no job history, stuck in Miami doing whatever came his way for six years with his trigger happy girlfriend/ex-girlfriend/girlfriend again (Gabrielle Anwar), his old friend that used to inform on him to the FBI (Bruce Campbell), his mom (Sharon Gless) and another spy who he burnt along the way (Coby Bell)–it all seemed like there was not much left for the series to show us that hadn’t been done.īut as happens with writers and creators of many TV series who know they are working on their swan song, it’s like someone gave them some java juice, and they delivered the best of their past three seasons. Sharon Gless was typically excellent as Michael’s chain-smoking mother.When USA Network announced last year that its hit spy series Burn Notice would see its last season this year, it really seemed like the right decision. Bruce Campbell was Sam, an over-the-hill spy with tons of experience and knowledge but who preferred a cold beer to a mission. Gabrielle Anwar played Fiona, Michael’s on-and-off love interest and violence-loving former IRA soldier. But any show of this type rises and falls on the quality of the sidekick, and Westen had not one but two great ones. While trying to clear his name, Michael made money as a “fixer,” helping people out of a jam when legal means would not suffice.ĭonovan was great as Westen, doling out information on spy techniques to viewers as he went about his nasty business. Jeffrey Donovan played Michael Westen, a highly trained CIA operative who was handed his “burn notice” by the agency – meaning he not only was out as a spy, he was condemned by shadowy government means to stay put in his hometown of Miami. ![]() It may not have been high art, but it was intelligently made and consistently clever. “Burn Notice” didn’t carry the higher ambitions of “Homeland” or “The Wire,” but that was perfectly all right. USA’s clever action series ended its run in September after seven seasons as one of TV’s most purely fun shows. Is it too soon to be nostalgic for “Burn Notice”?
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