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Season two of Burn Notice had a brilliant finale - it delivered on everything that I expected and more (Fiona shooting Carla with a sniper rifle was definitely something I’d been hoping for!). The moment when “Management” (a.k.a. the guy who burned Michael in the first place) revealed to Mike that so far, he’d been keeping him protected from all his old enemies (who’d rather see him dead) was a game-changer. It basically gave us the complete plot set-up for the next season... All that was required was for our ever-suave protagonist to tell Management that he’d rather take his chances without being protected, and then leap out of the helicopter and begin the long swim back to Miami.
The third season premiere picks things up right where the last one ended - with Michael swimming off the coast of Miami. Unsurprisingly, it doesn’t take long to realise that without protection, there’s going to be a lot more danger. I think it’s a good move for the show and that it’ll keep things fresh and exciting, especially because the police are now interested in Michael (they actually get round to arresting him very quickly). Obviously though, Management isn’t done with him yet - and it seems that the organisation responsible for burning him is going to endeavour to make his life as miserable as possible until he agrees to come and work for them.
So, from here on, it looks like the stakes have been raised and everything is going to be a lot more dangerous. It’s odd then that this episode (‘Friends and Family’) provides a solid return to the winning formula for the show but doesn’t really give us much of a feel for any real sense of danger. We see Michael team up with an old friend from his days in covert operations (Harlan, played by Brian Van Holt) and they attempt to take on a crime lord called Rufino. Everything is not as it seems (in true Burn Notice style), and there are a couple of twists that round off a decent, if not spectacular, premiere episode for the show.
I think that changing the circumstances is both an exciting and an intriguing move and I’m interested to watch the direction that things will go now that the situation is much less secure for the Burn Notice gang. It would be better if we could get more of an impression of the new threats that they now will face, but for a premiere episode, ‘Friends and Family’ definitely sparked my interest for the season ahead.
Catch Burn Notice on Wednesdays at 10pm on FX
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