

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.
