• Network: USA
  • Series Premiere Date: Jun 28, 2007
  • Season #: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5
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  • Starring: Bruce Campbell, Sharon Gless, Jeffrey Donovan
  • Summary: A former spy works as a private investigator in Miami while he attempts to learn why the CIA terminated his services in this darkly-comic original drama.
  • Genre(s): Action/Adventure, Drama
  • Creator: Matt Nix
  • Show Type: Returning Series
  • Season 1 premiere date: Jun 28, 2007
  • Episode Length: 60
  • Air Time: 10:00 PM
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 21
  2. Negative: 0 out of 21
  1. Brisk and witty, this is a good showcase for Donovan's super-tough-guy-with-a-heart-of-gold persona.
  2. 80
    If "Burn Notice" can keep up the energy and the inventiveness of its pilot, it'll be a must-see summer series for me.
  3. 60
    The show stumbles at maintaining a breezy tone and a professional sheen.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 67 out of 71
  2. Negative: 3 out of 71
  1. In my opinion, the 2nd greatest USA original show behind Monk. People are complaining about, the characters, being perfect. But im sure most people would to when they spent more, than half of their life doing that proffesion. Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  2. JW
    5
    I cannot say that I was impressed with the pilot of this new USA comedy/action piece. I wanted to be, but everything about it comes off as being second rate. It tries to create the same insightful effect through the use of voice overs that Dexter manages so brilliantly, but they have so far ended up being obvious and sometimes just plain stupid. It also borrows from House, whose main character sets people and situations up with a master stroke that always leaves you either laughing hysterically or dropping your jaw in awe of his genius. Here the setups just don't seem like they would work (In one instance he slams into another vehicle head on, and acts as if he would not be affected at all, simply because his vehicle has no air bag. It might work to a degree, but it is far from the brilliant plan the writer's want us to believe it is.) Script aside, Jeffrey Donavan is just not as good as Michael C. Hall, Hugh Laurie, and the blevy of other actors who have shows primarily focused on themselves. It's not all bad, though, I chuckled a few times, and I think Donavan has a chance to be good, but he is just not there yet. It is summer and between episodes of Entourage, Rescue Me, and John From Cincinnatii you have to watch something, so you might as well give this a shot. Expand
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  3. Garrett
    3
    The show has nice graphics and the acting is ok. But how they talk like they know everything really annoys me. And they are usually wrong anyway if you really know the topic. Expand
    • 0 of 4 users said yes

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