I enjoyed tonight's Burn Notice season two finale. It was a bit different from most weeks because there wasn't the typical COTW (client of the week) and the intensity from start to finish was amped up a bit because of that.
In some ways it was like watching Burn Notice meets Battlestar Galactica meets Stargate: SG1...meets Frasier (or if you want to go even more olds school, the movie Say Anything). It's always a feast for the eyes to see Tricia Helfer who plays skinjob model number six (Caprica 6, and all other variations) on BSG, and as a pretty huge SG1 fan, always nice to see Michael Shanks as someone besides Daniel Jackson. On Burn Notice, Helfer plays Carla, and Shanks is Victor, both characters out to get Michael Westen.
It turns out that even though Victor tried to kill Michael four times, it was Carla who was the ultimate bad guy. It also turns out that Victor, despite being a trained killer, isn't that bad of a guy and he becomes the COTW. Carla and her goons try to take out Michael (and Michael's mother) and Victor, but ultimately aided by Fiona and Sam, Westen, and his friends and family all survive.
I won't spoil how it all goes down, but let's just say that unless Burn Notice goes all Lost on us and has some six months ago style flashbacks, we won't be seeing Carla and Victor on Burn Notice again.
But, Michael does get to meet Carla's boss, played by John Mahoney, most notably known as Frasier's dad. Michael didn't love what he had to say. Things should heat up in season three and that will be here before you know it. New episodes of Burn Notice will be back beginning in June!
Burn Notice has been a hit on cable but it hasn't broken 5 million viewers in terms of live plus same day DVR viewiers of the first airing of the new episode in a few weeks and I'll be interested to see whether the season finale does. Update: to quote commenter Brenna: This episode dusted 5 million. Indeed it did, it even burned through 6 million!
I love Burn Notice and can’t wait to see the finale. Are you all getting into show blogging or are you just showing some love to favorite? Because either way it is appreciated.
This was an amazing season finale. Really one of the best hours of TV I’ve seen in quite some time. Loved the action sequences and all the explosions. (Really a brilliant piece of directing by Tim Matheson). And that final scene between Michael and Victor was heartbreaking — not something you’d equate with a Burn Notice episode but entirely necessary to tell the story.
I discovered this show right before season 2 started and I love it. Last nights show was awesome. Gotta love Feona and he love of explosives. Can’t wait until June for season 3.
I loved SG1 also and seeing Michael Shanks in a role other then Daniel Jackson was refreshing. I was convinced that he should get his own tv show, because he played the character of Victor so well, shame that won’t be happening.
I love Fiona! I could tell she was itching most of the season to eliminate Carla. I actually like Carla a little bit, it seemed like there was some romantic tension between her a Michael (inbetween the threats to him and his family).
This is one of the best shows on TV
Great finale, hope it returns in June to awesome numbers too!
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(And though it gives away my age a bit, I very much appreciate the “Say Anything” reference
What a great cast!!!!!!!
Not looking forward to long, hot summer…but sure looking forward to
“Burn Notice” returning in June.
While I found it entertaining, I think it was extremely weak in comparison to other episodes. They tried to pull off too much in too short a time.
The point that just totally made me go “Really? They expect us to buy this?!?,” was the “Christmas Lights,” scene. That would have taken what a few hours to prepare and do? We’re expected to believe they just sat outside the house and let Sam come up with that? Sorry, my suspension of disbelief took a leap out the window on that one. It took a good 15 minutes for me to get back “in,” to the show.
Still it entertained. It just wasn’t as good as it could have been if they had spread it all out over 2 episodes.
This episode dusted 5 million. Neilson says it drew 6.1 million. It was all kinds of awesome.
thanks Brenna, we actually posted that data around 4:30p, but I forgot to come back and update this post linking to that info. So I’ll do that now and post it here too:
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/03/06/burn-notice-second-season-finale-burns-up-61-million/