While "Best Laid Plans" offered legitimate obstacles in moving the season plot forward, its weaker moments smacked of time-biding on the way to more interesting, hard answers. http://www.tv.com/news/burn-notice-best-laid-plans-review-smugglers-cove-30227/

As the episodes have been doing recently, we picked pretty close to where we left off. Which means we had the return of Calvin Schmidt, who was even more whiny this week (if it’s possible) than he was last week.  Speaking of whining (my own this t more

While Burn Notice has seen its share of special guest-stars, Patton Oswalt's turn on the spy-go-round felt especially tailored to give the comedian-actor a sampler plate of espionage life. Outside of that, "Down and Out" was mostly a ho-hum, mission-clien more

In this episode of  Burn Notice , called “Down & Out,” Michael and the rest of his trusty team busily make plans to leave town. But is one team mate not ready to leave Miami? It’s funny that, in all this time  I’ve been thinking about w more

One of the many things we learn about life is that there are consequences for our choices. This week " Down & Out " showed how Michael’s choice of shooting card and going on the run has profoundly affected Sam’s life; specifically, leaving E more

Picking up seconds after the ending of last week’s episode, we hit the ground this week with Sam confronting Michael about shooting Card.  I have a new respect for Sam Axe. I've known that Sam has been Michael’s substitute conscious at t more

"Over the Line" was a certain kind of Burn Notice affair, one without an external client that instead focused on the group's survival as a cohesive unit. http://www.tv.com/news/burn-notice-over-the-line-review-frenemy-of-the-state-30084/

In this episode of  Burn Notice , called “Over The Line,” Michael and the rest of his team have to deal with the consequences of Michael’s rather drastic actions in last week’s mid-season premiere. You know, I really thought that the first hour of la more