thread: 2008-07-31 : Burn Notice
On 2008-08-01, Renee Knipe wrote:
Totally.
It occurred to me about three episodes into season one that the show has a recipe for boredom. I mean, the guy never fails, right? It took me a few minutes to sort it out...thank God I knew to look for the relationship map (see, I worked gaming in there, just to establish some of my old cred)!
And the "fronts" play off of each other in fun ways without rendering any of the rest insignificant. The fact that Mike can outwit Russian assassins but can't talk his way out of trouble with his mom isn't there to underscore one storyline or the other...it enhances both.
