Covert Affairs - USA

Welcome to the forum. I really look forward to checking out Covert Affairs on July 13th.

I am a huge fan of Burn Notice, Royal Pains and White Collar. USA has some of the best shows on any network.

I look forward to having you participate on the forum in regards to present and future programming that USA has to offer.

Or just to hang out if you want.

Parker

Welcome,

I have to agree with Parker that USA has some of the best programs on TV today. I've been seeing the adds for Covert Affairs and have my DVR set to record it.

Doug

USA does have one of the strongest summer seasons of anyone.  Burn Notice, Royal Pains, etc.  I'm looking forward to Covert Affairs.  Looks like a good spy/comic/action.  And that's what I'm after for summer faire.

I can't set my HTPC yet to record CA but will be able to tomorrow. From the previews Covert Affairs looks like it is going to be another winner for USA Network.

I forgot to mention my other three favs on TV and that is Psych, Law and Order CI and In Plain Site.

I plan to check this out. I see this being a hit, along with Psych, Burn Notice, In Plain Sight, Royal Pains, and White Collar.

I'll remember that it will premiere after the World Cup ends.

This might fill my Alias season 1 fix, as Piper Pirabo is pretty, but not so pretty that it's  implausible that someone with her looks could also work for the CIA.

The supporting cast looks good too.

EW wasn't impressed by the first episode they saw for this show, it appeared to be a little too on-the-nose for their reviewer.

Shrug.  No biggie, especially out of the gate.  Really looking forward to this.  Chris Gorham was great in Jake 2.0.  Playing a blind character with gadgets should be fun to see.

Covert Affairs - USA Network series

So, Covert Affairs is starting a week from now on USA.  Attractive young girl suddenly finds herself working in the field as a CIA agent, but things might not be all that they appear.  Hmm . . . is this a certain Abrams reboot we were hearing about, in disguise? 

I've seen a rave review for the pilot, and the trailers look decent.  I'm in it for Piper Perabo, to be frank.  She is pretty much the definition of adorable.  To steal a line, "She is so cute, Hello Kitty carries a Piper Perabo lunchbox to school."  It's also eventually going to have Sendhil Ramamurthy, who played Mohinder on Heroes.  So, it's got that going for it.  Peter Gallagher is in the pilot, and there are some other people you've heard of but I haven't--somebody from House called the "Cutthroat Bitch?"

Anyway, 10PM Eastern on USA on July 13.

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Originally Posted by Greg_S_H 
somebody from House called the "Cutthroat Bitch?"

 

 

This, alone, would get me to watch.

Doug Liman of the Bource series as the series creative lead gives this series a solid pedigree.

Thanks for the reminder(s).  DVR is set!  Looking forward to this series.

As someone with a raging crush on Piper Perabo I'll be watching for sure, plus it looks like a fun show and USA has a very good track record with me.

Meh, the pilot left me a little wanting, it shows some promise but overall it felt disjointed.

Perabo's character came off as being far too green and naive for field work, she did give great chase to that assassin there at the end and it ended with a decent fight sequence.

I'll give it a couple of more eps to find it's legs.

It was played far too whimsical in the beginning, and my interest was waning in the last half-hour.  I can see why it got an average grade in EW few weeks ago.

It's weird seeing CTB as the sane one.

I thought it played out like a lot of other new series. That is it gave you just enough to peak your interest and have you stick around to see where it goes. I didn't love it or hate it. I will be in the "stick around and see what happens" club. Piper is a great actress. Sure she is smokin' hot but she is also a chameleon when it comes to facial characterizations. For me she was like watching 4 different people playing the same person. 

Parker

That car chase scene was ridiculous because Annie's car truly is a POS (compared to the other dark car).

Interesting stat on the show.

The pilot was directed by Tim Matheson, who acted in the season opener to White Collar, directed and acted in episodes of Burn Notice and Psych. He is also a director on the new series The Good Guys along with Johnathan Frakes. He really likes working for USA Network.

Tim Matheson was also always-entertaining as VP Hoynes on The West Wing.

I remember him as the original voice of Jonny Quest.

Decent premiere.  I agree with the above on the chase, but it's hard to pull that off for TV I assume (Cost) but she was in a Jetta, should have been better then that.. but good combo for them, the other driver was in a BMW she was in a VW..

All that aside, of course the mystery becomes "who is the other spy she met and fell in love with in Sri Lanka, and is that the reason why she was recruited" etc.

As long as it gets us more shots of her  in bikini wear, I'm OK with the flashbacks.

I'm OK with the flashbutts.

I agree also about the car chase, in my last post I was referring to the foot chase she gave which was very good I thought.

TV car chases can be done well, see any random car chase on 24 as to how to pull that off.

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Originally Posted by Parker Clack 

Interesting stat on the show.

 

The pilot was directed by Tim Matheson, who acted in the season opener to White Collar, directed and acted in episodes of Burn Notice and Psych. He is also a director on the new series The Good Guys along with Johnathan Frakes. He really likes working for USA Network.

 

Tim Matheson was also in Animal House,  and 1941 and was the voice of Jonny Quest in the original 1964 cartoon. Nice to see him moving in to directing.

I thought the pilot was actually quite good. I'm glad they aren't going for some over the top sci-fi thing. The CIA offices look like an ordinary work place, and are bathed in some ridiculous blue light ala CSI.

I quite enjoyed the pilot and will be watching more.

Doug

Decent enough pilot for me to check out a few more episodes.  My money is on Chris Gorham being the one to shoulder the heavy lifting on the show.

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Originally Posted by Patrick Sun 

That car chase scene was ridiculous because Annie's car truly is a POS (compared to the other dark car).

The streets of D.C. / Georgetown being rather tight and short don’t really allow for very high speeds, so the relative maneuverability of her VW might provide her with a slight advantage.

Also at the very start of the show, they state something to the effect that she had the highest score on the driving test of anyone in the last 20 years. So it may have more to do with the skill of the driver, than the mechanical prowess of the car.

Doug

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Originally Posted by Lou Sytsma 

Shrug.  No biggie, especially out of the gate.  Really looking forward to this.  Chris Gorham was great in Jake 2.0.  Playing a blind character with gadgets should be fun to see.

Yes, it was great to see Jake 2.0 here again.  Nice that he is back in the game.