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I was a bit annoyed by something very small while watching The Fall of Sam Axe. In the CIA outpost, Sam is on the phone trying to get support to arrive more quickly. He needs an alias and sees the cover of an issue of SPORTS ACTION magazine with pitcher Chuck Finley on the cover. Inspired, he adopts Chuck Finley as his alias, presumably for the first time. The annoying part for me was that the pitcher on the cover of the magazine was throwing right-handed. The real-life MLB pitcher Chuck Finley was left-handed (like Sam).

It doesn't look like this is a real magazine, probably because of permission issues. It also doesn't look like the baseball scene on the cover is from MLB, also probably due to permission issues. So there's very little chance the pitcher on the cover is Chuck Finley or a right-left swapped version of him. I didn't need the pitcher in the picture to *be* Chuck Finley, I just would have liked to have seen a lefty pitching rather than a righty for consistency and believability. It's also mildly interesting that Sam Axe chose a lefty as his go-to alias since he is a lefty himself (as is Bruce Campbell).

In season 2, Carla’s identity and office get found by the team because she is working undercover as an “aquifer specialist,” found from information that was given by Harvey Gunderson.

A flaw that seems too simple for Carla’s character is the fact of, why would she use the same name that she gives Michael (“but you can call me Carla.”) as her cover ID? It opened the door to her base of operations being easily found by Michael and the gang. Thoughts?

I watched the show for the first time last year, and I instantly fell in love. It easily became one of my favorite shows of all time. I immediately did a rewatch and continued to love it.

After a break of several months, I have recently started another rewatch. While I still absolutely love the show, recommend it, and consider it to be one of my favorites, I do see more of its flaws now that I have some distance from it. And it's mainly the writing because the cast is almost uniformly superb and the premise is great. And, when I say writing, I don't mean individual scripts--because I think the scripts are generally sharp and witty. When I say writing, I mean the arcs and overall story regarding the burn notice and Michael's CIA life. The writing when it came to this was full of holes, inconsistent, and, at times, nonsensical. If I had to postulate, I would say that the reasons for the poor writing were (1) the fact that the show was primarily episodic, so that the focus of the episodes were on the case-of-the-week and very little on the season arc, and (2) the fact that there was such a quick production turnaround.

I feel like if the larger arcs were written better, the show would have such a better reputation among the mainstream audience instead of being considered a "guilty pleasure." And the show would be a much easier sell to new viewers.

I've recently found Mike and Nate had different middle names...? (as far as remember, they had different initials, Nate's revealed by Maddie and Mike, when he got captured from James). Can siblings have different middle name in real life as well?

I'm in Canada and I have no clue where to watch the fall of sam axe, im completed the show but still haven't watched the movie. Any ideas?

Burn Notice is my ADHD comfort show. I watched it from beginning to end Live. I've binge watched it over 30 times. I just changed jobs and I am extremely stressed out. I'm on S5E3 right now. I get home and watch multiple episodes while washing dishes and making dinner and such. This show, White Collar, and Sherlock are what keep me alive from day to day. I am excited to join the various conversations and I am humbled and privileged to be accepted as your newest member! Thank you for allowing me to enter various discussions about my favorite show!

Yall. Season six. I don’t know if I just never realized it before because I’d never binged the show, but the writers started spamming the hell out of:

Michael: “It’s gunna take us 35 minutes to get there”

Fi: “I can get us there in 20😏”

It’s so funny. I love it. This isn’t me hating and I’m about to turn it into a drinking game.

Just decided I'd give this a re-read in ages...😂

How on earth did they get Burt Reynolds to play character named after the director he was so public about hating? Did he change tune later in life and embrace Boogie Nights? It’s so funny to me.

Rewatching season 4 this entire thing is just one big ad for Honda with gun fights and spy tips in between still love it tho

TV magic, I know... But has anyone laid out a Floorplan of the Westen house? Madeline's house has two floors, as seen from the exterior, but in studio is one, with seemingly fluid format. In several episodes the front room (that Sam blows up [defensively] at one point) has a closet with a false wall Michael never knew about. And in at least one, it depicts Madeline, the child of the client of the week, and Fiona, all entering a room with what appears to be a window (which makes sense given the house exterior.) All that being said, we've never seen bedrooms (of which there are presumably at least three of) nor the second floor of (even though Maddie has hidden there with a shotgun at least once shooting through the ceiling) the house. I love this show, and have been on and at the locations of most of the scenes (I grew up in Miami) but this has always frustrated me. Maddie's house is magic (constant continuity error), I guess.

What do y'all think?

No matter how many times I rewatch the show I never understand the her stance. I swear this isn't a Fiona hate post, I quite like the character. It's just she is characterized as the one in the trio who likes constant action in her life, so I'm not sure why when it comes to Michael becoming a spy again she suddenly wants him to retired and peacefully live in Miami?

I feel like I missed something there. Maybe I misunderstood the plot. Because usually when Michael and Fiona get into these arguments the show frames it as "Silly Michael, trying to clear his name, unfreeze his asset and be able to leave Miami as a free citizen."

Is it that she doesn't mind espionage in general but just doesn't want Mike working with the U.S government specifically? She doesn't seem to have a problem with Michael doing freelance spy stuff. (Episodic jobs)

So I have been hearing a lot of good things about Amazon's Reacher, which is basically a story about a veteran who has become a wandering vigilante helping people. I have been thinking about giving this show a try, since Jack Reacher sounds a lot like one of my favorite heroes, Michael Westen.

But then I discovered that a lot of people have been criticizing the second season of the show where Reacher delves into Jack Bauer territory. And having grown up watching Burn Notice, well let's just say that I'm not exactly a big fan of Bauer's methods and the unfortunate implications that come with it.

So is Reacher as good as Burn Notice?

I mean....😂😂😂

I love this show so much, and I want to discuss episode-by-episode, but the community here is not big enough. Any ideas on how to grow the community?

TLDR: I suffer from chronic illness and am sometimes in too much pain to sleep and feel very down and Burn Notice always makes me feel good.

I love Burn Notice, for me it is a real feel good programme; I know the last series is hard going (it is fantastic, just a lot more grim at times), but as a general rule you end every episode feeling pretty good.

Anyway, I suffer from a chronic illness was which means sometimes I am in dreadful pain and wracked with being sick and unable to leave bed. Some nights, I just cannot sleep because of it, but am so tired I can’t keep my eyes open. When this happens, so I don’t disturb my wife I will put my headphones on and play Burn Notice on my phone.

I don’t watch, I just listen, and without fail, listening to the story unfold a feel a little better. All of the main characters as well as the regulars (Nate, Barry et al) have their quirks but make me smile.

Over the years, I can’t count how many times I’ve seen/listed to Burn Notice, just really glad it’s there.

All Michael’s friends needed to do is stay down James would be in CIA custody all of them would be out of prison and Michael would be actually doing what he believed in with Sonya. Sonya who is a much better match to Michael than Fiona. But no they had to ruin everything because they are the “good” guys and James is not. And after the ruined everything Michael blames himself no dude those stupid idiots ruined your plan and put your mother and nephew in danger

Edit: The killed Maddy I hate this I fucking hate it. Poor Charlie lost his dad mom and grandmother. This was avoidable.

I mean this is just so annoying if he would have just said that, Fiona and Sam would not interfere. They would not think that Michael is a traitor if he would have spinned it around

I've sworn his character name Ricky Watkins was just a coincidence.....😯😯😯 I did not know this though

I'm at season 6, but wasn't Campbell introduced as 'Campbell' in season 2? I forgot he had first name😂😂😂

Let me just start by saying that Burn Notice is my favorite show, I've been in love with it since '07.

And that's why what I'm about to write cuts even deeper...

I've just finished rewatching it for the first time in 3-4 years, ( used to binge it every year or so, when i got bedsick), and I came to a harrowing realization: At the end, Michael made the wrong choice, he should've kept his promise to James, that was his next step, he could've actually made a major positive impact in the world.

I'm probably gonna catch a lot of heat for this, but put aside your irrational love for his trigger-happy leprechaun of a girlfriend, I like her to, but her life fell apart, and she decided to nuke his, to stand in the way of everything he ever wanted, she forced his hand, she put her idea of what's best for Michael, before his actual well-being.

Glad they got ther happily ever after, but i think Mike got a raw deal in the end, even though he said he wanted out, he never really did, it's who he is, it's what he does.

Anyways, just finished the last episode, I'm peeved, and i needed to share my thoughts, please let me know in an argumentend way if you feel differently or perhaps share my sentiment

Season 5 Episode 09 Eye For an Eye, 32:46 have all things working against finding it for some reason burn notice didn't list any soundtrack except season 1's you can find on youtube but other then that nada. Maybe look in the credits but doubt it is even there. There are no lyrics nothing is being sung so can't help find that way. Anyway I appreciate everyone's help that tries. I wonder why burn notice didn't upload all their soundtracks first tv show haven't seen season soundtracks not on youtube but youtube is censoring like crazy and getting just terrible.

What song or instrumental is playing while they Michael, Sam, client are making a fake chemical roadblock 4 hour road block smoke canister and little gasoline Season 5 Episode 09

The music starts right when Michael says "4 hour road block smoke canister and little gasoline" Starts at 32:45 (maybe a second off at 32:46 it's playing.

If Michael was played by a black actor: Idris Alba. If Michael was played by a Latino Actor: Jay Hernandez. If Michael Westen was in the 90’s: David Boreanaz. If Michael Westen were remade today: Miles Teller. If Michael Westen were in the 80’s: Val Kilmer. If Michael Westen were in the 70’s: Tom Berenger.

What if Victor and Michael were more honest with eachother about their intentions of taking a baseball bat to Karla and Managments operation? I do you think Victor would’ve joined Michael’s team in a role similar to Jesse’s?

Fiona is… she’s… sigh why is Fi so wishy washy in where her moral line lays? Am I the only one that notices this? Like one minute it’s “should we shoot them?” Like in the intro scenes and then the next it’s oh woe is me solo tear drops “I had to help on a job doing lookout, I found out it was a kidnapping job (sad long lost puppy look on face) the person didn’t do me any wrong tho. So I hate the guy that I had to help.” Like what tf.

Like I always looked at it as Sam was the moral white/good and she was more of the moral grey/bad. On some angels on your shoulder type shit Sam bring the angel and Fi the lil devil, kuz Sam’s always govt. no mike don’t shoot person, I can’t be around if we’re talking about steal govt tech, “mike you should have got me before you shot him! You didn’t bc You knew I’d have a problem with it!” And Fi she’s always let’s shoot them, we came out with the intention of “ending this”, we should give him(client taken reluctantly and causing extreme issues) over to them(guy with guns trying to kill client). “Should we shoot them?”(fbi agents).

So why does her moral code constantly waiver, it’s like it’s never a consistent “line”? It get frustrating when she always yells at Michael or gets on his ass bitching and moaning at him about how he shouldn’t have done this or that or how risky this or that is when Fi herself ALWAYS wants to storm everything guns blazing and kill everyone she doesn’t like. Like what? You can bitch at Michael for letting sam or Jesse do something dangerous for a client OR CIA but when you wanna charge into somewhere guns blazing with the risk of Mike getting shot that’s not a issue and everyone should let you go for it? What? No. Fuck that. Fi’s character is to all over the place, wishy washy, and hypocritical.

Some of the series' best episodes are in season 3, but the overarching plot of that season is abysmal and nonsensical.

Why does Michael act so aghast that Strickler wants him to lie about working with a Somali warlord in an attempt to clear his burn notice? In the pilot episode, we see that Michael was in the business of doing deals with unsavory individuals at the behest of the US government, but he's suddenly so offended by the suggestion?

Why was Strickler so interested in getting Michael's burn notice cleared? How would that have helped Strickler?

Why was Diego so freaked out that Michael was working with Strickler, especially since he called Strickler's phone to speak with Michael?

Why did Gilroy kill Diego? He tells Michael that Diego was looking into Strickler's business and that Gilroy was Strickler's business, but I don't get that.

Hey mods - can we get a profile photo and banner for this sub? Plenty of cool Burn Notice photos out there and I’m shocked we don’t have any yet.

I’m thinking one of the iconic Michael and Fiona shots for the profile and a shot of the Miami skyline for the banner.