I have an on again/off again relationship with Burn Notice. I am a male, and when men reach certain points in their lives something happens. We start really getting in to movies about Tall Ships, we start really getting in to TV Shows about spies, and we start reading Tom Clancey books. I've passed check points one and two but not three. Burn Notice is (or was) my answer to the spy thing. It's sort of realistic portrayal of being a black books operative was interesting.
The thing is the first two or three seasons had some compelling aspects but the last two seasons have basically boiled down to Michael loves Fiona (the most unconvincing "Irish" person you could find, I mean you got a British actor that's not the same as an Irish one and why not get one who could at least do an Irish accent, I don't care if she was on an episode of 90210 and don't get me started on her shoes!) So he doesn't want ANYTHING to happen to her, but he needs to resolve this problem. All the time Fiona (and Sam and Jessie and his mom) implore him to "Do the right thing" what that means I have no freaking clue AND rehash the "we don't leave anyone behind" mantra. So he has a choice, let a friend/family member die or get arrested or what ever OR he can throw himself on his knife and sacrifice his desire for the rest.
At the end of this season, like the end of previous seasons we see Michael once again having sacrificed himself for the lives of the others. What would have happened if he didn't was pretty clear either life in prison or death. No ifs ands or buts, pretty clear which Fiona indicated earlier was "unacceptable" how did he do it? "Struck a deal" but what was the alternative? The thing is if this happened once that'd be one thing but literally it's a loop the exact same narrative on a seasonal cycle and it's frankly stale. My guess is he's working on a new black book operation for the CIA with the "Gang" as the operatives to bring down Ansel's organization because we're going to find out it's a Hydra-esque organization so he's back with The Agency and that's going to be our next cycle. But here's the thing. That's the cycle from two seasons ago, and last season was a repeat of season 1 and 2's narrative.
They've run out of stories to tell and they need to end it. It's just getting old, and they never told us what happened to Sugar. I mean come on, we all love that adorable scamp of a third rate drug dealer with a heart of cocaine. You don't just drop a secondary character has been disappeared by a rogue CIA agency when Micheal is CONSTANTANTLY reminding us of the "guilt" he feels for hurting people in his wake and then do NOTHING about it as that's entirely incongruous with his character to date (my guess is they either forgot and it was sloppy story telling or they'll fold him in to the team next season either way I'm only 40% sure I'll be back to find out).
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