Covert Affairs’ third season, as Carrie Raisler previously acknowledged on this site, was something of a revelation.…

Some shows take their time finding themselves. Some never find themselves at all. For the first two seasons of Covert…

Tonight’s Covert Affairs is sporadically helmed with enough finesse that director Allan Kroekker frequently makes up…

If there’s one thing that Covert Affairs’ writers regularly get wrong, it’s connecting the weekly spy plot du jour to…

I can’t help but wonder how much of the success of “Horse To Water” depended on my willingness to invest in its…

Tonight’s episode of Covert Affairs is a huge misfire. Episode writer Norman Morrill and director Stephen Kay try and…

After the disappointing “The Wake-Up Bomb,” “UBerlin” is a rather pleasant return to form for Covert Affairs. It’s…

Generally, Covert Affairs is a pretty likable show. As Carrie has noted before me, it is unambitious and its pleasures…

Well, we’ve come to the end of the second season of Covert Affairs, and it’s time to take a little inventory assessing…

Okay, raise your hand if you guessed the entire plot of this episode before anything ever actually happened? Everyone…

Last week, Covert Affairs delivered one of the strongest episodes of the entire series but, in a sense, it was a bit of…

Recent television history is filled with examples of memorable episodes which shift focus from the protagonist to a…

After a slight personnel shake-up last week, things are back to status quo on Covert Affairs in an episode epitomizing…

Well, now that? That was not half bad. After several episodes burdened with somewhat lackluster missions and…

I think this season of Covert Affairs might have me going through the stages of grief. The premiere had me in pure…

Last week, one of the big questions I had after Annie’s mission in Paris was why she doesn’t carry a gun. It seemed…

Every time I watch a new USA show it starts out like a little experiment – will this be the one to genuinely hold my…

I sometimes think the ideal way to review USA shows would be to watch them while doing other stuff. I’d flip on the…

Covert Affairs debuts tonight on USA at 10 p.m. Eastern. It's an extra-long premiere, running until 11:16 p.m., so set…