What was the review on the burn notice season 3 episode 8 friends like these?
As I’ve said many times in these Burn Notice write-ups, I’m not overly invested in the show’s ongoing story. If the master-plot weaves into the case-of-the-week well, and ratchets up the tension, and allows Michael to work a little master-spy mojo, I’m cool with it. But I’m more about the dime novel poses and ‘80s TV explosions than I am about the mythology with this show. That said, sometimes it can be frustrating when an episode sets off in one direction and then retreats into the standard Burn Notice formula. I think especially about the Season Two episode “Do No Harm,” in which Michael escapes Carla’s people in a tense chase and then literally, seconds later, spots his next client in the middle of the street, trying to kill himself. Along those same lines, the set-up for this week’s episode “Friends Like These” was so sloppy—with so many familiar elements—that it times it almost felt like fanfic.
