• Network: USA
  • Series Premiere Date: Jul 13, 2010
  • Season #: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 23 Critics What's this?

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 84 Ratings

  • Summary: Annie Walker (Piper Perabo) is suddenly picked from her CIA training class for her first field assignment.
  • Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure, Suspense
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 23
  2. Negative: 3 out of 23
  1. With Covert Affairs, USA has added another slick and likable drama to its summer lineup.
  2. Covert Affairs may not have the revenge factor of "Burn Notice" or the bromantic banter of "White Collar," but it's fast-paced, fun and every bit as charming.
  3. USA promises "characters," and Annie Walker is all of that. She just once in a while maybe needs to go with decaf.
  4. 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. Negative: 5 out of 25
  1. Truly enjoyable. Fun and exciting, clever dialogue, great timing, excellent acting and just such a refreshing show. The main characters' good chemistry is palpable. Expand
  2. 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. 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
  4. 4
    From the promotion and the looks of it this show showed some promise but it never picked up. It was mediocre at best. That only tells me that maybe I've watched way to many spy or cop shows and that it would take something remarkable to impress me. Expand

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