Covert Affairs (2010–2014)
6/10
promising start but fading in later years
6 January 2015
Annie Walker (Piper Perabo) starts as a new operative in Domestic Protection Division of the CIA. Auggie Anderson (Christopher Gorham) is a blind tech and operative who befriends Annie. She hides her secret life from her sister Danielle (Anne Dudek) living in her guest house until her secret is later revealed. Her superiors are husband and wife team Arthur (Peter Gallagher) and Joan Campbell (Kari Matchett). Calder Michaels (Hill Harper) becomes her new boss in later years.

The show starts with some good promise. She's hiding her secret life from her sister. There are some interesting professional relationships. The problem is that the show starts to lose bits and pieces. Her family life goes away after two seasons. Gallagher and Matchett are great actors but the show seems to lose interest in them. There is a constant rotation of people which saps away the tension. Auggie continues to be a good character but even he seems to fade. The show just struggles to find something to hold on to. It's left with Annie Walker being Jason Bourne. Their foreign trips don't make up for the deficits.
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