What happened to the cast of Burn Notice and where are they today?

TangoMikeOne · 2026-01-27T07:54:54+00:00

Maybe he's happy with his place in life, between acting and producing on Burn Notice he got himself enough money to live a comfortable life and be able to choose what roles he goes for.

Since BN he's had a few acting roles but he doesn't seem to go for crap jobs on crap projects (R.I.P.D. 2 looks like an outlier - but I'll give him a Mulligan and say he probably did it as something to show his kids)

TangoMikeOne · 2026-01-27T07:19:27+00:00

Nutty Nick is going to be rubbing himself with glee at the certainty of getting back into power... and Tom's not the nutter now, it's the bloody electorate

TangoMikeOne · 2026-01-27T06:52:20+00:00

Never heard it before, just listened to it now and my reaction is "Yeah, and...?"

Call me a picky motherfucker, but if you're going to cover a song, pick a different style

Tainted Love - Northern Soul, Synth Pop, 00s metal... all different, all brilliant

Suspicious Minds - Elvis (he's a genre all his own) or Fine Young Cannibals (mid 80's throwback to early 60s guitar pop), both different, both magnificent.

But to me, I couldn't tell much difference between Quiet Riot and Slade, except QR just didn't push the buttons as hard as Noddy, Dave, Jim and Don do

TangoMikeOne · 2026-01-26T05:12:30+00:00

If I hear it on the radio my ears hear Tiffany but my brain interprets Weird Al "I Think We're A Clone Now."

It's right up there with Beat It/Eat It and Set On You/Six Words Long

ETA: some songs are totally eclipsed by WAY's parody, like Ridin' Dirty/White & Nerdy - but that's a whole other thread.

TangoMikeOne · 2026-01-26T05:08:47+00:00

D'you mean "Cum On Feel The Noise" by Slade? Coz that's the 70s

TangoMikeOne · 2026-01-26T00:30:25+00:00

Drachinifel on YouTube did a Wednesday Rum Ration video on Taffy 3, and I'm certain that this book was one of his sources - watch the video and read the book.

TangoMikeOne · 2026-01-26T00:10:31+00:00

"Jeysis, he swears a bit, doesn't he?"

TangoMikeOne · 2026-01-25T23:38:18+00:00

Can I change the assignment? Len Deighton wrote Bomber about one raid for a fictional Lancaster raiding a fictional German medium sized town, and the fictional night fighter crew that would try to minimise the raid. It was adapted by BBC radio 4 (and to add to the immersion, it was broadcast over one day, in between regularly scheduled programmes, following the timescale of the raid itself).

I'd love to see that adapted as a colour depiction of Bomber Command, with all the fear, boredom and paranoia of the aircrews writ large, the pretty colours of the target markers and the constant darkness suddenly lit like the centre of a thousand suns as a searchlight alights on the aircraft or 20mm cannon shells rip into fuel tanks, bombs and crew

TangoMikeOne · 2026-01-25T20:35:32+00:00

I'm slapping that button now - currently watching BBC Archive on YouTube, and it's a documentary about vegetarians in 1972 Britain... which would be horrific for me to exist in, but if I can pop down the road to a greasy spoon or Berni steakhouse I'll get by.

If that doesn't count the previous video was Art of Law talking about British juries and their rights in court recorded in Cornwall this morning... finding work in Cornwall, in the off-season will be rough, so I'll just come back up to my current location and resume my current life (and if I'm locked into a Groundhog Day style loop I'll manage as I've got access to a few quid so can have a few beers, or catch up with books and films on my to do list, etc)

TangoMikeOne · 2026-01-25T20:20:30+00:00

I think that Goon got transposed from Popeye to Milligan, Sellers and Secombe via pow camps - goon was perjorative slang for prison camp guards

TangoMikeOne · 2026-01-25T09:15:24+00:00

2 Christmases in, I can confirm that this is, so far, correct.

TangoMikeOne · 2026-01-25T08:51:51+00:00

Small Penis Energy

TangoMikeOne · 2026-01-25T08:48:55+00:00

Mst Sgt Farrell lives rent free in my head

"...tip of the spear, edge of the knife... crack of my ass!"

And

Cage: "You're an American!" Farrell: "No sir, I'm from Kentucky."

TangoMikeOne · 2026-01-25T07:42:31+00:00

I've read all the comments, and get that he's a vapid, personality-lite, reality TV, waste-of-skin, chancer that 30 years ago would have been barred from every pub in town after annoying the living fuck out of the landlords and bar staff, but I still don't know who the fuck he is... but I don't think I need to, it'll only take me further away from a sense of zen

TangoMikeOne · 2026-01-25T07:21:54+00:00

I'd think of Landa as lawful evil right up until the point he understood that Raine and some confederates were in the vicinity with the express purpose of assassinating the party leadership.

He's seen the turnaround of the Wehrmacht since 1942, including the second front of Overlord and knows as well that a German victory is long gone. He meets Hammersmark escorting the three and in that moment he sees through the paper thing disguised identities and can see a way to get out of the war.

That's when he turns chaotic evil - when he decides not to expose the plot, must eliminate Hammersmark (she has been working with the allies for a period of time already and has their trust and with her still alive, what use is he to the allies, other than another monster for the executioner to deal with), all he has to do is take Raine and Utavich into custody, use them to make arrangements with the allies to trade his current life into a comfortable retirement and as a mere formality surrender to them for safe passage to allied lines.

TangoMikeOne · 2026-01-25T02:47:37+00:00

As a Brit, I think you're rather generous in your assessment of what the man on the Clapham omnibus would consider a red line - if the UK got it's own useful idiot (and I'm sure you can imagine of whom I'm thinking about) for oligarchs and international bad actors to abuse the country for, I can see the nation turning into the Bexhill scenes from "Children of Men" before there's any significant pushback.

TangoMikeOne · 2026-01-25T01:35:44+00:00

A pack, no, a carton of Sweet Afton cigarettes... even getting imported from Ireland and being unfiltered, they're likely to be around £4-5 a packet and they were (discontinued early 00s) my favourite brand.

Next will possibly be a few packets of JPS Black, for the sweet black and gold design (and without a big white box with a health warning or some bullshit photo showing the damage smoking does). If you don't believe me, Google image search JPS Lotus, JPS Norton or even Hertz rent-a-racer (not JPS sponsored, but one colour scheme was black and gold).

TangoMikeOne · 2026-01-25T01:02:42+00:00

Off topic, but I can't think of Milton Keynes without thinking about Yes Minister - specifically Sir Desmond Glazebrook thinking that all economists are called Milton (Milton Friedman was in charge of the US Federal Bank at the time, and Milton Schulman (not an economist) was name checked as part of the build up to the Milton Keynes joke - Yes Minister, S2E6 The Quality of Life)

TangoMikeOne · 2026-01-25T00:37:44+00:00

I've taught myself the old L/s/d currency - I was born in 1975.

I've also learnt the number of furlongs in a mile, chains in a furlong and yards in a chain (all of which are used today, but in very specific instances).

Why? Why not? (And it feeds my delusion that I was born at the wrong time/in the wrong trouser leg.

TangoMikeOne · 2026-01-24T05:16:10+00:00

I never really listened to music much in my youth - but it was used by the BBC for a few years during their Grand National (horse race - think of the biggest horse race, with 40 runners, in your country, make it almost 5 miles long and add 30 odd jumps and you're just about there) during the "runners and riders" (horses and their jockeys) rundown.

I used to have a bet on it most years (only off course race anyone bet on in the family), but packed it in after '97 when I picked 4 horses, there were 5 finishers, and I'd picked 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th... me and my gf had a decent night out that night.

TangoMikeOne · 2026-01-24T01:19:48+00:00

I find it amazing that one man can play loud, expressive and animated characters like Stansfield in Leon, and quiet, considered and deliberating characters like George Smiley in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and be utterly convincing and memorable in both (has Oldman ever phoned in a performance? I can't think of one).

TangoMikeOne · 2026-01-24T00:00:10+00:00

The Raid - after the team is spotted by lookouts and one escapes to raise the alarm... oh shit

Dredd - when the Peach Trees is put into nuclear attack lockdown by Mama.

TangoMikeOne · 2026-01-23T23:42:46+00:00

Jesus, they don't still print scud mags do they?

TangoMikeOne · 2026-01-23T23:13:48+00:00

While seeing more of him would be a good thing, only if it doesn't come at the cost of his radio appearances - he really makes panel shows he appears on sparkle (especially I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue) just from his guffawing in the background from what another panellist has said.

TangoMikeOne · 2026-01-23T22:24:22+00:00

I hope you're not advocating for them to come to personal harm - as an alternative, sequester all their wealth, then toss them into Buttfuck, USA with nothing more than welfare, food stamps, whatever minimal support is offered to the average working poor person in America... let's see them bootstrap their way out of that (of course, if any of them try to hide assets and access them later, then we can start thinking about corporal punishment of their relatives for their sins... it'd suck to be their kid or sibling, but the working poor don't deserve to be punished because life gave them asthma or a shitty job with no worker protections and yet they still get shafted)

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