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Burn Notice: “Long Way Back”
For two seasons, I’ve found myself in the awkward position of complaining when my second favorite event on the annual sports calendar comes around because USA would preempt Burn Notice for two weeks. When USA lost the broadcast rights to the US Open to ESPN, the knowledge that Michael, Sam, and Fi wouldn’t be interrupted…
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Leverage: “The Fairy Godparents Job”
We talk all the time but it never feels like you’re actually sharing anything. As great as you are, there’s always a mask. I just don’t know who you really are, Katherine. Bernie Goddamn Madoff. He takes our money, insults our legal system, makes the sick sicker, and the poor poorer. Turns out he (or…
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Burn Notice: “Friends Like These”
I apologize again or my absence the past couple of episodes. But this was a pretty good one to come back to. Michael’s existence has changed a lot over the past two and a half years. From a closed-off and guarded loner, he’s learned to trust and care about other people in ways that had…
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Leverage: “The Order 23 Job”
A dirty, rotten, no good hedge fund manager? I’ve never heard of such a thing! Tonight’s mark, Eddie Maranjian, was a hedge fund manager of Armenian descent who, naturally, preyed on the weak and walked off with their money. The team is pretty sure he’s got at least $400K liquid stashed away somewhere and offers…
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Leverage: “The Tap-Out Job”
Christian Kane is in the spotlight this week with his meatiest episode since last season’s “The Two-Horse Job”. And while that episode gave us a picture of his past, this one does more to show us the struggle that pushed him to leave home to begin with. ((Like Martin Blank, I imagine Eliot decided one…
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Leverage: “The Beantown Bailout Job”
Bad things happen to good people. And on TV, interesting bad things happen to and/or near main characters. Timothy Hutton – and by extension Nate Ford – only has a few years on me; perhaps in the next decade or so a sabotaged car will career toward me and flip in the air, landing feet…
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Leverage Season Preview
After last season’s very big, very destructive finale, the Leverage Group disbanded and went to the four corners. Their operation was in ruins and their names and faces were exposed to the authorities by Jim Sterling; going underground was the logical move. We return six months later in Boston. Nate has accepted a job working…
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Dark Blue premieres on TNT
I’ve been a fan of Dylan McDermott since way back. Back when I couldn’t quite keep my Dylans and Dermots straight ((I’m not the only one.)) I still knew when I saw him that I’d probably enjoy whatever he was doing. I put up with The Practice long past its DEK half-life, ((The number of…
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Burn Notice: “Signals and Codes”
My name is Michael Weston. I’m an actor. When you’re a busy actor you’ve got a lot. Cash, credits, job history. You’re stuck working in whatever city they decide to film in. Like Miami. Out from the shadow of the Paxson arc, Michael’s back to trying to find his way back into the Company’s good…
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Warehouse 13 premieres on the network with the stupid name
It was a big night for The Syphillis Network. ((Yes. That will be the only way I’ll ever refer to them henceforth, unless I somehow got a staff job on one of their shows. Pick a juvenile name; suffer juvenile taunts.)) They debuted their new name in the morning, ran their interminably long promo which…