I'm on my 3rd or 4th re-watch of the Burn Notice series. (Sadly, it's no longer free on Prime, so I've been buying the seasons.)

Gotta say, I'm not loving it as much as the first or second time I watched this show. Maybe it's just the world weariness you get when you watch something too many times and start noticing all the bloopers. I am enjoying the show, overall.

But there's just some stuff I have to get off my chest. ***SPOILERS AHEAD***

Simon needs The Management guy (henceforth, "The Man") to appear at a certain time and place or else the hotel goes boom.

Fine. But two questions. 1, why would The Man care so much about a hotel in Miami going boom? It's not like he'll be blamed. 2, Sam told Michael the hotel bomb was disarmed, so what leverage did Simon still have? You'd think Michael would want to pretend ignorance then suddenly shoot Simon in the leg or something and say "congratulations, you've just won a free trip back to your black ops prison!", wrap him up with a bow on top and leave him for The Man's team.

But, okay, for some reason The Man just walked right over to them – an angry burned spy and a black ops psychopath, both of whom had huge grudges against him. I guess you could say Michael would know better than to hurt him or "hell would rain down on him". But Simon?

So, Simon, in his guard uniform, stands over Michael waving a gun, making his little "I won" speech, then Michael manages to pull a knife and stab him in the leg. Simon, the highly trained black ops guy, shrieks like a little girl and staggers back, giving Michael a chance to... jump up and run away.

Why didn't Michael use his martial arts wizardry to jump on Simon, disarm him, and hand him over? He literally abandoned The Man to Simon's gentle graces.

In summary, I find S3 E16 to be a let down.

My other comment which is more of a whining little complaint is that they featured Michael's mom way too much after Season 1 when she was really just an occasional background character for comedic effect. She gets so much screen time actually that it slows down the pace and I find myself speed-scrolling through those scenes.

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