Five years ago, the shadowy conspiracy known as "The Organization" burned Michael Westen as the first step of a plan to recruit him as their newest operative. Instead, they created their own most implacable enemy.
Westen has dedicated himself to tearing the Organization to pieces; a task made almost Sisyphean by the many secret layers of the Organization's ... well, organisation. Seriously, this conspiracy has more heads than a hydra, and look at me rocking the Greek myth references today.
So with any TV show there almost inevitably comes a time of diminishing returns, and with season 6, it feels to me like Burn Notice has crossed that Rubicon (hey, a reference to Roman history rather than Greek myth this time). The story-line about the Organization is feeling very stretched by now, and the pattern of introducing a new "maybe this is really the big boss this time" antagonist for a few episodes before they are defeated is getting very worn. The show does make some effort in the final third of this season to shift direction, but I don't feel it worked very well. It feels rather forced (particularly in the interpersonal drama between Westen and his girlfriend) and it doesn't seem to be setting up an especially distinctive or interesting new "status quo".
Right now, I feel like they would have been better served simply wrapping up the show with season 4 or 5, but we'll see if season 7 - which really is the last season - can pull a rabbit out of the hat and give us a satisfactory conclusion after all.
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