DJariya

6 episode Fall season


Episode 11 of 16 "Trigger Cut"

stenix

Any word on if this is getting a sixth season, or are we expecting a decision after the finale?

DJariya

No decision yet. USA just renewed Royal Pains which gets slightly better ratings than this for 2 seasons. If I had to guess, most likely this will get a short 6th and final season like White Collar.

stenix

Just caught up with this. Pretty average season in my opinion.
The finale could easily serve as a series finale, so I wouldn't be that bothered if it didn't come back for another season.

resinrats

LOL Didn't even realize it came back.

DJariya

So I just finished marathoning the last 6 episodes of season 5.

It was a decent arc. But, I wasn't crazy about having Annie with the heart condition, which was the main focus of season 5.

Anyways, after watching the season finale, it looks like the writers/producers essentially wrapped everything up with no loose ends. Belenko was also a pretty weak villain and having him change and become an asset kind of sucked.

Anyways, they left things pretty much with closure all around:

Annie and McQuaid are now together and happy

Joan gets a big promotion

Auggie quits the agency and decides to travel the world with Tasha.

Arthur decides to make a run for the Senate.

Then at the very end, Auggie and Annie say their goodbyes.

There was/is really nothing left for them to come back for story-wise. If this does get cancelled, I'm satisfied with how it ended.

birdseye

Canceled http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/liv...seasons-761446

I agree with DJariya that there wasn't much story to come back for and the season finale makes for a good series finale. I'm kind of sad to see it go though, I still enjoyed it.

Red Dog

That's fine. Had a proper ending.

randian

Bummer. I wanted to see where they'd go from there.

Strapped4Cash

I'm actually okay with the ending, but felt that the series had a lot of potential that was never realized, and that the first half of Season 5 didn't work nearly as well as it could have. So, bittersweet news for me.

stenix

I'm OK with the cancellation. Like others have said - the ending wrapped everything up and I think it had run it's course anyway.

windom

So is this series worth watching overall? I only watched the pilot episode and then never found the time to watch after that. Eventually I gave up on recording it to free up DVR space.

It seemed like a lesser version of Alias which I was a big fan of. So is this a show worth watching in its entirety?

Patman

It was a decent summer-time show.

Rex Fenestrarum

It's kind of weird: I thought the actual stories were better in the first couple of seasons, when it was painfully obvious that 98% of the show was filmed in Canada (that, or Washington DC has an ton of Bank of Nova Scotia branches everywhere! )

A few seasons in, the show got a big budget boost and actually started filming all over the place: Paris, Germany, Austria, Turkey, Japan, etc. The "look and feel" of the show improved immensely. But at the same time, that's when - to me - the plotlines started going downhill. I preferred the "bad guy of the week" setup over the season-long arcs, and of course as any show goes on, the characters' relationships get all tangled up, and characters were written off and new ones added.

It's a fun show, no doubt. It helps that Piper Perabo is, like, #3 on my "All-Time Hot Chicks" list. But it's a slightly edgier version of the same "light fun" USA used to be known for, like Psych. It's also kind of amusing that I have the same problem with Covert Affairs that I do with Anthony Bourdain's shows: at first, the content was great, but the visuals sucked; now the visuals are great, but the content sucks (to be fair, it's not that Parts Unknown "sucks" exactly... I just feel like Bourdain is rapidly running out of places to visit, and is running out of things to say about places he's already been).

Red Dog

Good points by Rex. I actually preferred the final season arc to the preceding arc. I say try it. I don't expect one to binge it, but work through it as you have time.

Kdogg

The show is nothing like Alias with the exception of the leads are attractive spies. Covert Affairs is grounded in reality while Alias revolved around it's own mythology.

I enjoyed the early seasons more when the show was about a green CIA agent learning to be a spy. The later seasons were good but less interesting when it was about Anne Walker - super spy. I'm fine with the show ending like it did.