Posted by
Ric Dibney on Friday, August 10, 2007 11:04:32 AM
I don't know if this is allowed or not... This isn't one of those "stupid Dems" posts or anything like that. This is a simple recommendation of a cool television show my wife and I have come to enjoy over this summer. The show is called "Burn Notice" and it airs at 10pm on Thursday nights on the USA Network. The concept is cool. An international spy of an unknown U.S. agency, is in the middle of an operation in Africa when he gets a phone call. Right in the middle of negotiating with what looks like a very dangerous person in that person's "lair" the caller informs him he's been "burned." When a spy is "burned" it means he's been let go. It really means more than that, however. Whatever resources were available before are gone. All money, contacts, knowledge of his existence by his former superiors is gone. He has to figure out how to get out of his situation on his own. Our main character gets the tar kicked out of him and wakes up in Miami. He does not know who "burned" him or why. But when he goes to find out he gets major heat. It's as if he is imprisoned within the city of Miami. His estranged mother lives there, as does his hot-headed former IRA guerrilla girlfriend and an old spy-buddy who is ratting him out to the FBI. He has an FBI tail wherever he goes and has to learn to get by on his wits and the training he has had as a field agent (no Valerie Plame desk-jockey this guy). As much as it pains him he has to make contact with his mother and find a way to generate cash while he is trying to sniff out just who "burned" him. This ends up being a series of "private eye" cases to which our main character applies his very formidable skills and experience. With the help of his quasi-girlfriend and rat-fink buddy, he brings a terrifying level of justice to bad guys in Miami. The show is slick and cool and very well-paced. It is the one show my wife and I cannot wait to watch each week. You should check it out.