Michael has a complicated relationship with his mother, who is a less blowsy and flamboyant version of the mother Gless played in “Queer as Folk,” combined with some of Mama Rose’s will. At the same time, he has to protect his mother, who, by virtue of being related to him, is always a potential target for no-goodniks. While Westen is trying to figure out who burned him, and how he can regain his job, he lends a helping hand to his mother’s friends, and to other locals who have found themselves on the wrong side of thugs, assassins, and blackmailers. (The show’s creator, Matt Nix, originally set it in Newark but was, shall we say, gently persuaded by USA to move it to Miami.)
Miami, with its heat, intrigue, flow of shady capital, and fabled glamour, is a good spot for “Burn Notice” it’s both Hollywood and Casablanca. But he’s not out of danger-his own people, whoever they are (we’re never told which government agency Westen was connected with, or even if he was formally connected with one at all), may be after him, and so may the people he was after. Westen has been burned for reasons he doesn’t know one moment he’s in a market in Nigeria, and the next he’s being packed onto a plane and sent off to a place not of his choosing, which happens to be Miami, where his mother, Madeline (Sharon Gless), lives. In “Burn Notice,” Jeffrey Donovan stars as Michael Westen, a suddenly former spy-“burn notice” is the term used in spy circles when an agent is terminated. “In Plain Sight,” whose season ends August 17th, has been renewed, and undoubtedly “Burn Notice” will be, too. Steve-O,” one of those shows starring an incorrigible jackass-in this case, a guy named Steve-O, who is an actual alumnus of MTV’s “Jackass”-and involving people who dunk their heads in a tub of fish guts and do handstands on broken glass.)īoth “Burn Notice” and “In Plain Sight” have elements of crime, mystery, and detective work, and, in keeping with USA’s mission, attitudinous, attention-demanding main characters.
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The stable grew two years ago with “Psych,” last summer with “Burn Notice,” and this summer with “In Plain Sight.” (USA also shows episodes of the Fox series “House,” and an ugly homegrown thing called “Dr. The network’s slogan is “Characters welcome,” as in “That guy’s a real character.” The best illustration of the slogan is “Monk”-the series itself, which is now in its seventh season, and the character Adrian Monk, a sad, annoying, touching, and inadvertently funny obsessive-compulsive former police detective, still played beautifully after all these years by Tony Shalhoub. USA has distinguished itself in recent years as the oddball network-home of the misfits and safe haven for the dysfunctional.
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