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Covert Affairs: Season 1
  • Network: USA
  • Series Premiere Date: Jul 13, 2010
  • Season #: 1 , 2 , 2 , 3
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Metascore
64 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 23 Critics What's this?

User Score
6.7 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 74 Ratings

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  • Summary: Annie Walker (Piper Perabo) is suddenly picked from her CIA training class for her first field assignment.
  • Genre(s): Action/Adventure, Drama

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 23
  3. Negative: 3 out of 23
  1. Zap2it (Inside the Box)
    Reviewed by: Hanh Nguyen
    80
    With Covert Affairs, USA has added another slick and likable drama to its summer lineup.
  2. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    60
    USA promises "characters," and Annie Walker is all of that. She just once in a while maybe needs to go with decaf.
  3. People Weekly
    Reviewed by: Tom Gliatto
    38
    Annie calls for some sort of inner steel, but Perabo looks less like an untested agent than an overwhelmed intern.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 25
  3. Negative: 5 out of 25
  1. cinephile
    8
    Although unrealistic to the typical day at the CIA, the characters are easy to relate with and very entertaining. Christopher Gorham's depiction of a blind CIA agent makes you love him even more and the witty comments swapped between characters leave a smile on your face. All in all, a great show, that is perfect for a summer drama series. Hopefully it sticks around for a long time.… Expand
    • 3 of 4 users said yes
  2. KundK
    5
    Neither a super-spy fantasy like "La Femme Nikita" nor a serious analytical affair like "Rubicon", "Covert Affairs" plays like "Moonlighting: Langley". This domestic (?) part of the CIA employs only extremely good-looking people who solve huge threats to the national security which conveniently gather in a 50 mile circle around (a badly made CGI wide shot of) their headquarters so that they still have the time to go for a drink with their colleagues and lie to their families about what they do. Fortunately, the always adorable Piper Perabo offsets the annoying male models around her. Less fun than the first season of "Burn Notice", but watchable if you like your spy stories light, fluffy and forgettable.… Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  3. s_francesca
    3
    The show calls for Annie to be a sleek strong intelligent agent rearing to explore the world, saving people on the way while being sexy and confident. Yet we are let with miss Perabo, her acting is so below par that she translates Annie into an inexperienced deer in the light intern, who seems so out of place in the CiA. Making the show so wrong and awkward. And even though it is well written the simple miscasting of Piper Perabo reduces the show to less than it could have been.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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