Sometimes you don’t want to burden your television watching with a lot of pesky thinking, and that’s where Burn Notice excels. Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan) is a top-notch spy who finds himself fired (“burned”) mid-mission with no explanation. Left with no resources, he ends up in Miami where he makes a living by taking the kind of odd jobs that television heroes always seem to take: protecting the innocent, helping the helpless, et cetera. The only people he has left are his former IRA operative trigger happy ex-girlfriend (the gorgeous Gabrielle Anwar), an ex-spy buddy who’s also informing on him to the feds (the unparalleled Bruce Campbell), and his estranged mom (Sharon Gless). As a character, Michaels works well: he can calmly explain in voiceover how to construct a fake pipe bomb, lose a tail, or outsmart the drug dealer bully downstairs, and yet he can’t deal with his mother asking him to take her to the hospital, or understand why the teenage girl he’s protecting wants to go to the prom so badly. I had never heard of Donovan before this, but he’s perfect as Michael; Anwar and Campbell’s characters are less filled in, but still solid as supporting cast, though I hope they let Campbell cut loose as the show progresses; he’s under-utilized thus far. Burn Notice may be fluff, but it’s enjoyable fluff and, along with Psych, it shows that USA is quickly becoming a home for stuff that’s good, even if it’s not about to win an Emmy.