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After several recommendations, I watched an episode, the one where the hero's bounty-hunter girlfriend gets hired by a fugitive to clear his name.
The premise of the show is that the hero (whose name, like everyone else's, I've forgotten) was an American covert op who got a "burn notice"-- someone planted evidence to make him look unreliable, and he was summarily fired. Now he's stuck in Miami, doing odd jobs and trying to find out who burned him and why.
I liked this but didn't love it; I'd watch more episodes and see if it grows on me. I think my biggest problem with it was that though I enjoyed the bright, snappy tone, which also influenced many stylistic choices which I also liked, such as the voice-over infodumps on covert ops and the freeze-frames, I would like the show better if its tone was more serious. To me, the premise begs for angst. But there was no angst. Alas.
Though I liked the character of the ex-girlfriend, I was freaked out by the fact that she was in extremely revealing outfits for much of the show, and appeared to weigh eleven pounds. You could count her ribs, and see the outline of her sternum. I realize that some women are like that naturally, but with the prevalence of anorexia and "starvation is better" beauty standards in Hollywood, it creeped me out.
The premise of the show is that the hero (whose name, like everyone else's, I've forgotten) was an American covert op who got a "burn notice"-- someone planted evidence to make him look unreliable, and he was summarily fired. Now he's stuck in Miami, doing odd jobs and trying to find out who burned him and why.
I liked this but didn't love it; I'd watch more episodes and see if it grows on me. I think my biggest problem with it was that though I enjoyed the bright, snappy tone, which also influenced many stylistic choices which I also liked, such as the voice-over infodumps on covert ops and the freeze-frames, I would like the show better if its tone was more serious. To me, the premise begs for angst. But there was no angst. Alas.
Though I liked the character of the ex-girlfriend, I was freaked out by the fact that she was in extremely revealing outfits for much of the show, and appeared to weigh eleven pounds. You could count her ribs, and see the outline of her sternum. I realize that some women are like that naturally, but with the prevalence of anorexia and "starvation is better" beauty standards in Hollywood, it creeped me out.
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