Finally!!! After four seasons of going around in circles, Burn Notice resolved the ongoing burn notice problem, with the list ending up in safe government hands and Vaughn in custody. It's definitely good that Matt Nix ended it here, seeing as the spy subplot has gotten morbidly redundant the past few seasons.
"Out of the Fire," the first episode of the night sets up the season finale by bringing out a slew of old enemies before killing off Brennen and letting Larry run off again (he probably didn't get caught). The episode ends with everyone knowing that Vaughn is gunning directly for all of them.
That leads right into "Last Stand," which is flat out amazing, an hour of Michael, Fi, and Jesse sieged in a hotel, using whatever skills they have to survive, including a final suicide explosion, before Sam arrives with the cavalry.
The final scene shows Michael dumped off in Washington DC after being interrogated for weeks. It's hard to imagine Burn Notice changing completely into a show about Michael doing spy stuff around the world. The rest of the cast still has to do something, and the show is fundamentally solid. I could definitely imagine the show going on with Michael and friends helping people around Miami without unnecessary subplots. I'm guessing we'll see Michael in the spy world for two episodes at most before going back to the usual Miami stuff, and that's perfectly fine, as long as the burn notice business is out of the way and not somehow reprised through some plot twist.
Score: 9.0/10
Thursday, December 16, 2010
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