*** COVERT AFFAIRS airs on the USA Network which is on Channel 5 on Columbus Insight Communications and Channel 29 for Columbus Time Warner Customers ****
My favorite series that USA premiered last year was Covert Affairs with it’s star Piper Perabo as CIA agent Annie Walker, and it was easy to be sincerely worried after Season 2’s lackluster premiere episode/return, where the show seemed doomed to focus more and more on Ben Mercer(Eion Bailey) and Annie’s doomed relationship. Luckily the last half of the first half of Season 2 began to move away from that and focus on other going-ons.
Thankfully after an up and down last half of the season, Covert Affairs returns to form. One of my biggest hiderences in the show, which you can read in my review of the mid-season 2 finale stated the following:
“What is a bit frustrating though, which is the show is starting to suffer at the amazing chemistry between Perabo and Christopher Gorham’s Auggie Anderson, the blind CIA tech guru. After seeing multiple episodes with their chemistry seemingly more and more, it is mind-boggling that the show doesn’t go for it. While this could make or break a series, when it is so painful to watch that they are not together, it brings it more home that the show should take the chance and go for it. Beyond such minor troubles like that though, Season 2’s arc or movement was about Annie coming to terms with her double life and how she doesn’t like it. In other words, she wants to tell her sister, Anne Dudek (who seems wasted still, despite her more active role in the series this season), who is starting to maybe catch on that something is a miss-”
It feels like the writers read my review, and maybe others with similar tastes as that is exactly what the last half of the season has been building towards. And everything resolves itself out, Annie saves her sister, is asked to move back in with her, and she almost tells Auggie she loves him, but backs off when she realizes he cares for another woman. And in another shocking turn of events, Jai (Sendhil Ramamurthy) put the kabosh on his old man who was leaking information to the press and seemingly blaming Arthur. But like his old man, Jai has a mean streak in him, and is detirmined to get what he wants, which is Joan’s job, or much worse, Joan’s husband (Joan is played by Kari Matchett) Arthur (Peter Gallagher)'s job.
Overall, a great show with a great cast and always a solid return to form by season’s end.
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