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Who cares about tennis?
Aug. 29th, 2007 02:45 pmDamn, no Burn Notice this week or next, due to the stupid US Open tennis tournament. I ask you, who cares? No one watches tennis anymore except Muffy and Ted down at the club. Yet USA insists on carrying it every year.
I have really got hooked on this show over the course of the summer. If you're the kind of person who likes lighthearted TV fare over serious or scary, you should be watching. It's kind of like a cross between the movie Sneakers, and MacGyver, with some Equalizer and, as someone on my flist pointed out, The Rockford Files thrown in.
I love the gentle sarcasm and misanthropy the title character, Michael Westen, carries through the series, and I adore how "trigger-happy" his ex girlfriend and former IRA gunrunner Fiona is. Bruce Campbel is a delight as Michael's former spy friend who now enjoys living off his lady friends and pretending to be a playa. When the series comes back for its final couple episodes in a few weeks, looks like Campbell will be reuinted with his old friend Lucy Lawless, guest-starring.
Jeffrey Donovan is great at spinning his lines. Last week's ep made me laugh out loud when Michael was on the phone with a bad guy (whom they will often identify with a tag "Joe Blow -- head bad guy" or something; my favorite recently was a guy who greeted Michael at the door with "Dude, I've got a serious problem" and the tag was "Dude with a problem") who told him there was a sniper trained on him right then. Michael says at one point, while turning around to show off his assets, "How do I look? I look goood, right?" He's really fun, and they take a lot of opportunity to get him stripped down so we can enjoy the eye candy of his physique. Yum.
USA's web site has a lot of interactive things, which I don't care about, but the "Ask a Spy" weekly feature, which has Donovan answering reader questions like "how can I burglar-proof my home" in character as Michael, is really delightful.
Seriously, check it out before it goes away. It sounds like they are bringing it back next year, so yay, but I don't totally trust USA when it comes to things like that, so don't miss it while you have the chance now.
I have really got hooked on this show over the course of the summer. If you're the kind of person who likes lighthearted TV fare over serious or scary, you should be watching. It's kind of like a cross between the movie Sneakers, and MacGyver, with some Equalizer and, as someone on my flist pointed out, The Rockford Files thrown in.
I love the gentle sarcasm and misanthropy the title character, Michael Westen, carries through the series, and I adore how "trigger-happy" his ex girlfriend and former IRA gunrunner Fiona is. Bruce Campbel is a delight as Michael's former spy friend who now enjoys living off his lady friends and pretending to be a playa. When the series comes back for its final couple episodes in a few weeks, looks like Campbell will be reuinted with his old friend Lucy Lawless, guest-starring.
Jeffrey Donovan is great at spinning his lines. Last week's ep made me laugh out loud when Michael was on the phone with a bad guy (whom they will often identify with a tag "Joe Blow -- head bad guy" or something; my favorite recently was a guy who greeted Michael at the door with "Dude, I've got a serious problem" and the tag was "Dude with a problem") who told him there was a sniper trained on him right then. Michael says at one point, while turning around to show off his assets, "How do I look? I look goood, right?" He's really fun, and they take a lot of opportunity to get him stripped down so we can enjoy the eye candy of his physique. Yum.
USA's web site has a lot of interactive things, which I don't care about, but the "Ask a Spy" weekly feature, which has Donovan answering reader questions like "how can I burglar-proof my home" in character as Michael, is really delightful.
Seriously, check it out before it goes away. It sounds like they are bringing it back next year, so yay, but I don't totally trust USA when it comes to things like that, so don't miss it while you have the chance now.
