I love Burn Notice. I love the style of it, with Michael’s dry narration, often over a frozen snapshot of the action scene, making us his confidant. I love Sharon Gless playing a real piece-of-work mother in deep denial about the abuse Michael’s father put him and his brother through. I love Bruce Campbell as the drunken sidekick.

Did I mention I love Fiona? I wasn’t sure about her midway through last season, but the more I see, the more I … READ MORE

I’ve been overdosing on spy shows lately. This caused an unconscious pet peeve with Alias to finally rise to the surface: there’s just no way someone as nice and happy and sweet and kind and loved by friends as Sydney Bristow would choose to be a spy.

Spies are messed-up people. From James Bond to Michael Weston (Burn Notice), they don’t come from happy homes, and because of their experience they don’t see the world in a positive, upbeat, optimistic kind … READ MORE

Burn Notice is a fun show about spies. It features two women: Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar) and Madeline (Sharon Gless). As per usual, they exist only to orbit our usual White Male Lead as his love interest and mommy, respectively.

Now, both of them are potentially interesting characters. Fiona likes to blow things up, which sounds promising at first (TV being so devoid of violent women). Madeline is middle-aged and looks it and she’s already had sex here in the first half … READ MORE