White Collar – If you like Burn Notice . . .

Yes, Burn Notice keeps coming up in comparison to White Collar, and I suppose rightly so. Flashy, action-y, gadget-y. Beautiful people doing crazy things using cool, specialized knowledge.

The USA Network decided to set this series in New York instead of Miami. Far fewer bright colors. Just as much ridiculous wealth.

A couple of surprises in the casting department. On a positive note, Willie Garson plays a friend of “The Hot Guy.” You might know him as Stanford in Sex in the City, or surfing lawyer Meyer Dickstein in John from Cincinatti. Ever the pseudo-gay nebbish.

Tiffani Thiessen makes an appearance, too. I could go the rest of my life without seeing her “act.” Honestly, she’s not bad, but I’m prejudiced.

I’ll give this show a few more episodes after a solid pilot. This might not be the best new show on TV, but we should all cry that it’s better than most of what the broadcast channels put out.