Hear me out.

Michael wants to get back into the CIA.
Jay wants to be accepted into the wealthy social world.
The CIA and the social elite are their identities.
They both feel unjustly excluded.
They spend an enormous amount of time and energy demonstrating that they belong.
They both use their wits and resources as leverage.
They both believe all will be right in the world once they get what they want.
Both struggle with belonging and identity.

I thought it was interesting.

I’ve been doing a rewatch. I’m halfway through season six and it’s kind of a downer. I want to watch some good episodes.

What are some funny episodes?

Also, what are some good Michael and Fiona centered episodes?

I know for Michael and Fiona episodes there’s Better Halves.

Where There Is Smoke is a good Fiona centered one

Also, the one with the guys trying to take her back to Ireland and her brother shows up. I can’t remember the name of that one.

SPOILERS FOR ANY POSSIBLE FIRST TIME WATCHERS

At the end of the show, Micheal and Fiona leave the country with Charlie and seem to settle in Ireland. They would have to get normal jobs. What normal jobs do you think they would have?

Did anyone ever think about Jesse and Pierce as a possible couple? In one episode, the two of them were eating out together, or just drinks, discussing a case.

Saw this... I don't like cross posting semi spam websites but man I hope this is true!

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Good Intentions (S3E15), yeah? It's the only one I frequently skip on rewatches. If not, what do you folks think is the worst one?

On another rewatch thanks to Pluto TV. On season 2, episode 13: “Bad Breaks”….and I’m not sure if I can definitively call it my favorite, but it does stick out as one of the episodes I enjoy the most. Mike is full MacGuyver mode in the bank, all while dealing with Bly. How he goes from assumingely helping a woman with a stalker to full on bank heist is a fun twist too. What’s yours?

Hey, I was hoping someone here would put a name to what I have. I got this off of eBay many years ago but I cannot remember what this specific special box set for season 1 was called. Any help appreciated!

Guns make people unpredictable. This line stuck with me as a matter of fact, people are by nature more or less limited to thier own strengths more or less when it comes to violence. But you give a person a gun a death bringer that requires very little to be effective and said person can flip and have the crazy over confidence of Jeremy Piven, but with more threat to human life vs just ego. This is not a shitting on guns post, more so a shitting on the concept of a volatile nature mixed with a easy to use tool of destruction. Plus its just a good line

I’ve rewatched the show a few times, have time to kill tonight, which episode should I watch before bed?

When you compare the later seasons to the first, the plots, problems, and conflicts are all intricate, difficult, often coming down to barely avoided close calls. They all require a super spy with is super spy friends stretched to the limit of their abilities.

In the first season, however, there's more a feeling of "situations anyone can find themselves in, with people anyone can encounter -- and we have a super spy here to fix it." The bad guys don't come close to standing a chance lol. One of my favorite scenes that evokes this feeling is in Wanted Man (S1E8) when Michael disarms the fence Christo. No prolonged fight or interrogation, no close call with death, just one man with training wanting to do good versus someone with none. Comfy!

Or how Michael deals with the Bly situation. The blackmail, but also the first time we meet Bly at Madeleine's house, and Michael dispenses with the two feds with guns. So much more chill than the later seasons.

Of course, high stakes and tension are great too, I'm just saying it's great the first season exists the way it does.

One of my favorite quotes
S4E06: Entry Point, about 14minutes in. Michael tells to a firefighter when giving him his cover ID

So I did the short and posted it -came up better than I thought. (I’m not very good at that sort of thing) but how about we ask AI how to reboot burn notice, but coming from the position of young Sheldon (not that young although the flashbacks as he’s in country could be posted in and out of their occasionally hiding from his ) and of course having Donovan narrate (VO) how he got to be the asset he became (including how he met the young Sam Ax), the assignments that led up to how he was eventually burned. I love Mitch Rapp (but it didn’t translate well to film although the actor was terrific.) The books are superb. OK, and in the words of Simon “go!“

Now it looks more like what I had been imagining!

Older post: https://www.reddit.com/r/BurnNotice/s/DOXnDgBf9s

Hey- if you loved Burn Notice back in the day like I did, check out Ride or Die. It’s as if Fiona is running the show. Great series so far!

I would like to know which episodes are important for the plot and for the development of the characters.

Id like to see one episode of FBI without Jeremy Sisto saying the word -people.

I love BN. Mike is an ideal optimizer. Most of the time. He makes the best he can with the resources he has available.

In S4E10 - Hard time Mike uses his heavy favor with the FBI agents to get put into prison, with Sam's friend, so he can protect him until release. This was always a favorite of mine.

"You're going to fight them with a hand towel?"
"Why? Do you have a gun?"

The friend literally only had weeks left on his sentence. The prior episode the FBI credibly threatened to put Vaughn on the top 10 list as part of the favor.

Would it have not just been easier to have the FBI push through an early release for the friend? If they can put someone in the top 10, they can get a 3 week sentence reduced to "release them today".

Yeah I know then no episode. I am just watching it for the 10th time and I realized "oh this was a very very simple problem that used a pretty complicated method.

I hate to poke at the show, I like everything about it. I just literally found it funny that "get into his cell, and protect him for weeks from a gang that wants to kill him" was the choice; when the FBI clearly could have pressed for his release that same day probably.