This in from LA-DSH:
I watched and enjoyed the pilot of this new show COVERT AFFAIRS on USA last night. I’ve met one of the writers, Chris Ord, a fellow Westsider here in LA. I’m sure they’re repeating it throughout the week, but it’s also STREAMable on their site. It’s quite entertaining and well-done, if a few small slips. It’s one thing to have a character be great with languages, it’s another to have her speak fluent Sinhala to a kid on the beach in Sri Lanka!
Anyway, it’s got great potential for storylines and intriguing characters, and I’m glad to have another show on which is an hour-long and pushes the formula boundaries a bit, mixing in humor with the drama (like “Rescue Me,” and the late “Boston Legal“; not to mention others like “Burn Notice,” “The Riches,” “Royal Pains,” “Dirty Sexy Money,” etc. PS – I have a lot of hope for Rescue Me‘s final season, starting soon.)
There is a funny line in the New York Times review, stating that we don’t have much to fear from Russian spies these days:
“At the moment there is little to fear other than that the world supply of nude photos of the accused spy Anna Chapman — aka Anya Kushchenko — will dry up.”
But au contraire, what the episode depicts is not so far-fetched. There has been a very disturbing trend in knocking off journalists and human-rights workers in the FSU. Piper Perabo was very good at playing a woman who is motivated to be an agent and find some answers in her life, while also maintaining a civilian cover identity — there is going to be more humor mined from that, no doubt.
hope you are well
all the best
LA-DSH
