![]() ![]() Jeffrey Donovan, Bruce Campbell, Gabrielle Anwar and Sharon Gless are so good together that they can render the guest stars irrelevant I’d easily watch an episode of the show that was just a 41-minute version of a “MacGruber” sketch, with Michael, Sam and Fi arguing as they try to disarm a bomb in a locked room. ![]() The kidnapping episode from a few weeks ago (which aired while I was otherwise occupied at press tour) had a pair of actors I like in Yancey Arias and Steven Culp, but what made it work was the spotlight on Fiona. The guest star thing isn’t a hard-and-fast rule. I don’t think it was a coincidence that the one successful mini-arc of season three was the Strickler one, where Ben Shenkman lived up to the menace and charm that the writers clearly intended for the character. Michael having to deal with a cop who keeps noticing all the laws he breaks had a lot of potential, but Moon Bloodgood was a dud as the cop. In hindsight, though, the problem wasn’t with the arcs themselves – which were no more or less nonsensical than this chain of missions that Michael has taken on behalf of his agreement with Vaughn – but with the guest stars involved in them. I spent a lot of last season wondering if the show had perhaps outlived the need for the story arcs. – the overall story felt limp and left me impatient waiting for Michael to get back to Simon, even as I knew the show’s format meant we wouldn’t get that until around the 55-minute mark. So even though the prison scenes had some nifty Westen-isms – book covers as body armor, blowing up the infirmary, etc. So we had opening and closing scenes featuring the wonderful Robert Wisdom and Garret Dillahunt, and then a vast chunk of time where Jeffrey Donovan was hanging out with the extremely forgettable Juan and Cruz. “Hard Time” followed the traditional “Burn Notice” structure, opening and closing with Michael dealing with the season-long story arc, and devoting most of the middle to the client of the week. ![]() I hadn’t intended for this review to be a follow-up to the thesis in my “Covert Affairs” review about procedural shows like the ones USA does being extra-dependent on the guest-casting, but the more I think about “Hard Time,” the more I keep looping back to that. “… He has lived an honest and upright life, exhibited good moral character and conducted himself as a law-abiding citizen.A quick review of last night’s “Burn Notice” coming up just as soon as I’m murdered over a parrot… Since then, Downey has “paid his debt to society,” according to a proclamation on the governor’s website. He served one year and three months in prison, two years on parole and nearly three years on probation for his convictions, according to the governor’s office. It was a time in his life when his substance abuse and brushes with the law overshadowed his acting talents. “Pardons are not granted unless they are earned,” the governor said in a statement.ĭowney was convicted in 1996 of possession of a controlled substance, carrying a concealed weapon in a vehicle with a prior conviction, driving under the influence and use of a controlled substance. Applicants must receive a court order declaring he or she is rehabilitated and show they have lived “productive and law-abiding lives following their conviction,” according to the governor’s office. People convicted of a crime in California may apply to the governor for a pardon. The individuals completed their sentences and have been released from custody for more than a decade without further criminal activity, according to the governor’s office. The “Iron Man” actor was one of 91 people who received a pardon from Brown – mostly for minor drug offenses – in what has become an annual Christmas Eve tradition in the governor’s office. Robert Downey Jr., who spent time in prison in the late 1990s for drug convictions, received a full and unconditional pardon on Thursday from California Gov. ![]()
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