He’s being forced by the CIA to bring down a rogue operative, James Kendrick (John Pyper-Ferguson), a sort of father figure who sees the world and does things much in the same way that Westen does. In a way, Westen is both this season’s protagonist and antagonist, says Nix. Bruce isn’t very smart, but right there he was a genius for one second,” Donovan jokes. I owe Bruce Campbell this quote: ‘Michael in Season 7 was forced to feel.’ That’s so dead on. “We really let the audience in on Michael’s heart. “A spy can’t let anyone know how he feels, so he had all of this stuff bottled up about how he felt about things. “One of the great abilities of Matt as a writer and a showrunner is his ability to create a character like Michael, with his ability to compartmentalize how he felt,” says Donovan, who has gotten to take on a variety of accents and personas in his run as Westen - as well as direct a few episodes of the show. Season 7 was more about Westen’s battle with himself over who he wanted to be and what he wanted to do. Previously, “Burn Notice” was constructed more like a procedural, such as “CSI” or “Law & Order,” in which a complete story was told in every episode, while an overlying storyline ran through the season. It became far more serialized, telling its final season as a 13-episode arc. We started burning the whole city down.”īesides embarking on that literal crash-and-burn-course, Season 7 marked another departure for the show. “But once we went into the final season, a whole new world of stories opened up to us. Prior to this season, creating consequences was starting to be a challenge for Nix and his team: “There were only so many serious consequences you can present before you start running out of show,” Nix says. That means that “burned” spy Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan) and his hodgepodge team - including former Navy SEAL Sam Axe (Bruce Campbell), former CIA field operative Jesse Porter (Coby Bell) and former Irish Republican Army (IRA) member and on-again-off-again girlfriend Fiona Glenanne (Gabrielle Anwar) - spend most of season on the edge. In the final season, we were able to interesting things we hadn’t done before without worrying about what the consequences would be.” But I realized we were running out of ways to do things. “I won’t lie: There’s a part of me that mourns the stories on ‘Burn Notice’ that I imagined I would tell someday. “Nobody wanted to peter out and get really stale and have our viewers say, ‘Okay, we are done with you,’ ” says Matt Nix, the show’s creator and executive producer.
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The rest you’ll have to tune in to find out, when “Burn Notice,” USA’s blue-sky spy series famously shot in Miami’s Coconut Grove, wraps its seven-season run on Thursday, Sept. Spoiler alert: Yes, a major character does die in the series finale of USA’s “Burn Notice,” and yes, it is sad.
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