Remember the days when summer television was just a wasteland of repeats and failed TV pilot movies? Okay, so we still haven't quite left those days behind. But at least we now we do have at least a few shows to watch over those hazy summer months.
Probably the biggest new arrival to the summer scene this year was Burn Notice, in which we follow blacklisted spy Michael Westen as he tries to figure out who put a burn notice on him whilst also doing Random Acts of Kindness in the sunny, friendly underworld of Miami. It isn't exactly revoultionary television, but it is a lot of fun, particularly the segments in which Michael tells us all the secrets of his trade in occassional 'Spy 101' voice-overs.
Plus the show features Bruce 'Evil Dead' Campbell, so it must be good. All-in-all it made for perfect summer distraction, and I'll definitely keep watching the show when it returns for another season next summer.
I also heard a lot about Greek, a college-nostalgia show in which a high school nerds tries against the odds to join a fraternity. I'll have to check that one out at some point, in time for its return early next year. In the meantime we also had the return of Monk and Psych to fulfill our quirky detective needs, along with The 4400 and Kyle XY for our melodramatic sci-fi mystery needs, and of course Entourage is always there to service our adolescent-fantasy-of-being-a-movie-star needs.
Who needs to go on vacation, anyway?
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