Michael got a move on it lest he lose his chance at the girl he cared about. Juggling his competing priorities has caused him to actually move in on Fiona since the beginning of Season Five-shocking, as their relationship hadn’t really developed in the preceding years. His long-standing commitment to helping Miami’s downtrodden and semi-romancing Fiona that had just been accepted, unchanging features of the series were put into conflict with the demands of a secret full-time career. The relationship of the characters shifted as Michael found new priorities entering his life. And, despite the name of the show, in the Season Four finale, Michael ended up finding new employment by a shadowy agency (is there any other kind?). They had to move on with life! The writers intentionally made its conspiracy arc almost completely irrelevant to their futures! The characters were forced to change drastically as people even though the format of the episodes stayed essentially identical. The cast’s internal struggles to accept that they might never really know why they were victimized become ground zero of the show and the real focus of its subsequent arcs. And then, instead of the normal, unsatisfying, “to be continued” crawl that translates into “we’ll have another Chinese nest egg of questions and answers that actually answers nothing,” something else happened. Jesse’s woe-is-me story arc came to a predictable dead end. Anyway, these arcs are time that could instead be spent snarking at and beating up more unsuspecting terrorists of the week. A new main character-Jesse Porter, a disgraced government operative Michael accidentally framed-was introduced as a part of a new story arc about Michael feeling justifiably guilty about putting someone else in the exact same situation he hates being in. Season Four started out in a way that worried me. However, back in Season Three, I was afraid I’d get bored if the show kept doing the same thing over and over. The first three seasons were fun because Michael Weston (he’s a former covert agent, in case you didn’t know), Fiona, his Dana Scully-esque sparring partner, and Bruce Campbell as Bruce Campbell had stellar chemistry, outwitting every loan shark and druglord unlucky enough to live anywhere near Miami.
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