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somedaybitchjust watched USA's pilot for Burn Notice. it was pretty good, although, i'm a whore for Jeffrey Donovan. he's my kind of quirky and sardonic, dry and little affect.
Bruce Campbell's in it, as Donovan's buddy, and is deeply amusing, and kind of a toad. Gabrielle Anwar's also along for the ride, as the ex-girlfriend, which is great except for the very, very bad Irish accent she's doing. it's excellent when she can hit it, but her success rate's pretty dodgy in the pilot.
Sharon Gless has a reoccurring as Donovan's hypochondriac mom. she's awesome, although the wig she's sporting is fairly horrific.
Donovan's character is a spook; field ops in the CIA recruit assets, independents, locals, etc, to do the dirty work. think Brad Pitt's character in Spy Games. the handlers are the actual CIA personnel that "handle" their field assets. think Robert Redford's character in Spy Games, or if you want to go the tv route, think Vaughn to Sydney Bristow in season one of Alias.
Donovan's character gets a "burn notice", essentially he's been hung out to dry as an asset and cut off from any work in the Community, his financial assets are all frozen and he's been restricted to his home town of Miami by an FBI tail. he wants to find out why it's happened and who's behind it. in the meantime, the poor schmuck's gotta eat, so he takes Equalizer/Magnum PI type jobs to make ends meet.
Bruce Campbell's in it, as Donovan's buddy, and is deeply amusing, and kind of a toad. Gabrielle Anwar's also along for the ride, as the ex-girlfriend, which is great except for the very, very bad Irish accent she's doing. it's excellent when she can hit it, but her success rate's pretty dodgy in the pilot.
Sharon Gless has a reoccurring as Donovan's hypochondriac mom. she's awesome, although the wig she's sporting is fairly horrific.
Donovan's character is a spook; field ops in the CIA recruit assets, independents, locals, etc, to do the dirty work. think Brad Pitt's character in Spy Games. the handlers are the actual CIA personnel that "handle" their field assets. think Robert Redford's character in Spy Games, or if you want to go the tv route, think Vaughn to Sydney Bristow in season one of Alias.
Donovan's character gets a "burn notice", essentially he's been hung out to dry as an asset and cut off from any work in the Community, his financial assets are all frozen and he's been restricted to his home town of Miami by an FBI tail. he wants to find out why it's happened and who's behind it. in the meantime, the poor schmuck's gotta eat, so he takes Equalizer/Magnum PI type jobs to make ends meet.
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Date: 2007-06-29 07:19 pm (UTC)Bruce Campbell you say? Well now. I think I must watch this series. I missed the pilot, though. I hope they an encore.
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