He may have pushed them on the road towards happiness a smidge, but he really didn't work any sort of magic. If that works, if that family is as strong and cohesive now as they need to be, not just for the restaurant, but to be happy and harmonious, I'll eat my hat.

All he really did for the family was to have them write letters to each other about their real feelings. He then proceeded to spend the entire time fixing the food and not the family. Upon eating there, he quickly realized that both areas needed work. He had initially been under the impression that all that needed fixing at the restaurant was the family, not the food. I find it even more frustrating than last night's Kitchen Nightmares, wherein Gordon Ramsay purportedly fixed a sinking restaurant and the family that owned the place. Consequently, I don't understand why the show implied that he might be dead. I guess they could do some silly amnesia story arc, but they're not going to kill him. I'm betting that they don't kill him when we know that more episodes are coming in a few months. What kind of cliffhanger is that? Let's see, the show is all about Michael and Michael trying to find out who put the burn notice out on him. The cliffhanger ending is the question of whether or not Michael survived the explosion.

That's where the problem comes in – Burn Notice didn't show us that Michael was still alive at the end of the episode, thereby implying that he might not be. He had just been warmed about it by Sam though, so he was ready and tried to jump out of the way in time. She, we are to believe, had her people set up a bomb at Michael's apartment which went off when he opened the door to the place. Carla, the evil person who is ordering Michael about (and this ventures into the spoiler arena if you haven't seen the episode yet), apparently tried to have Michael killed at the end of the episode. What didn't work last night though was the “cliffhanger” ending. The overarching plot, when they deal with it at all, is always interesting – I really want to know who burned Michael and why. Whatever the case, there were interesting motives pushing the single-episode plot forward last night. I was a little confused about why they used a shot where Gabrielle Anwar (who plays Fiona) flashes her underwear at the camera when Fiona is trying to convince Michael to take the job (it seemed a little to overt a way to attract Michael), but eventually wrote it off as something that no one noticed during the filming and post production. Fiona is, if you ask me, just using the guy to get back at Michael and make him jealous, so her convincing Michael to do a job that could get him killed for her new boyfriend upped the stakes. The fact that the single-episode plot revolved around Fiona's boyfriend asking a favor worked for me. They had me last night right up until the cliffhanger ending.īefore we reached the ending I was invested in both the overarching plot and the one carved out for this specific episode. While I'm standing by that criticism, the show can overcome the handicap by having the specific elements in the formula be truly outstanding. Home › Uncategorized › The Burn Notice 'Cliffhanger' FinaleĮarlier during this season of Burn Notice, I complained that the plot was just a little too formulaic.

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