Covert Affairs (USA) -- Season 5B Thread -- Starts 11/6/14
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Covert Affairs (USA) -- Season 5B Thread -- Starts 11/6/14

6 episode Fall season
Episode 11 of 16 "Trigger Cut"
Annie heads towards Istanbul where she hopes to apprehend Belenko.
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Re: Covert Affairs (USA) -- Season 5B Thread -- Starts 11/6/14
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.
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Re: Covert Affairs (USA) -- Season 5B Thread -- Starts 11/6/14
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.
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.
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Re: Covert Affairs (USA) -- Season 5B Thread -- Starts 11/6/14
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.
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.
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Re: Covert Affairs (USA) -- Season 5B Thread -- Starts 11/6/14
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.
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.
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Re: Covert Affairs (USA) -- Season 5B Thread -- Starts 11/6/14
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.
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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.
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Re: Covert Affairs (USA) -- Season 5B Thread -- Starts 11/6/14
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?
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?
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Re: Covert Affairs (USA) -- Season 5B Thread -- Starts 11/6/14
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!
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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).
)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).
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Re: Covert Affairs (USA) -- Season 5B Thread -- Starts 11/6/14
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.
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Re: Covert Affairs (USA) -- Season 5B Thread -- Starts 11/6/14
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?
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?
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.




