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In truth, Burn is a spy series moonlighting as a private-eye show - part Rockford Files, part MacGyver.īut Donovan's flair for accents has encouraged the writers to create more scenes where Michael goes undercover.

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Plus the requisite chases, the cool clothes, the muscle car (a '70s Dodge Charger).

Hey, the show tweaks convention, but there's still got to be a sexy gal with a gun. 'One of the writers said, 'Do you know you're gonna be loading and firing a shotgun? (Maybe) you should be wearing jeans.' And I was like, 'It's Fi.' He nodded and wandered off.' 'We were shooting a couple weeks ago, and I had a micro mini on,' Anwar says.

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He knows her well enough not to judge her by her slinky attire. One minute she's pushing Michael to rig a bigger bomb - the next, to face his issues. 'I love how outspoken and unrestrained Fiona is,' Anwar says of her character. But a nagging mom? That 007 never had it so tough. 'But this is a show where all the hard things are easy and the easy things are hard.' 'It's a little weird to have a spy show with a mom on it,' Nix admits. Take Madeline, his manipulative, chain-smoking mother (played by Cagney & Lacey vet Sharon Gless). Michael's world is shaken, not sugarcoated. How boring and long the waiting is between actual missions. 'Or they made me forget - by some brainwashing message embedded in the text,' he jokes. 'I don't remember the (book) titles,' Donovan notes. When Donovan was first cast, he read up on spies and intelligence. (Bust out the air-conditioning unit, where the wall is weakest and when nobody's watching.) Nix prides himself on getting the details right, and even has a private intelligence operative on staff.

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So he dabbles in crime-solving, helping folks in need using Special Ops training and assistance from Sam ( Bruce Campbell), a semiretired colleague, and Fiona ( Gabrielle Anwar), a sultry, ruthless IRA operative - and Michael's ex-girlfriend.Įach episode is like 'Spying for Dummies,' with Michael explaining how to tail a suspect, use a flash grenade, escape from a house when all exits are blocked. (In spyspeak, a 'burn notice' is like a pink slip, but worse.) He's desperate to figure out who 'burned' him and why, but he also needs to pay the rent. Michael, a former agent, is stuck in his hometown of Miami, broke and blacklisted. And Thursday, after nearly a year, Burn Notice returns for a second season (at 9 p.m.), as quirky and clever as ever. The series, which debuted on the USA Network last summer, was a hit. He's Stephen Colbert with sunglasses, a hot babe sidekick and some combustible homemade thermite powder, outwitting villains with levity as well as pyrotechnics. 'You know, Mercedes makes an SUV now,' he says. Like in the pilot, when Michael is stuck between two thugs in the back of a Mercedes. 'People run around saying' - he adopts a deep, basso acting voice - ' 'You don't understand! We're up against the hugest organization in the world, and we're all going to die unless we do this thing in the next 42 minutes!' 'īack to regular Matt: 'On Burn Notice, we kinda go in the opposite direction.' 'Those shows (depict) a very dramatic world,' Nix says.

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