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I really like Covert Affairs. It starts up again on July 16th.
God what a horrible show....
Anyway.....
Lest we forget "Burn Notice" or Nikita (CW network) the latter being the closest anything has come to the all knowing all seeing super do it all spy works.
If you have Netflix, MI-5 is a show about the British equivalent.
MI-5 is a particularly good show, and does a very nice job of combining the best of American and British styles of spy drama/action adventure, plus takes a pretty interesting take on relationship between Post 9/11 American and British intelligence services.
... god the CIA and the FBI must be so jealous of the British ability to slap down one those State Secrets Act contracts on everybody.
MI-5 is a particularly good show, and does a very nice job of combining the best of American and British styles of spy drama/action adventure, plus takes a pretty interesting take on relationship between Post 9/11 American and British intelligence services.
... god the CIA and the FBI must be so jealous of the British ability to slap down one those State Secrets Act contracts on everybody.
I would get angry when I watched MI-5/Spooks because they always made the Americans/CIA either bad guys or incompetent. I think the series ended in 2010.
I would get angry when I watched MI-5/Spooks because they always made the Americans/CIA either bad guys or incompetent. I think the series ended in 2010.
And they weren't? It isn't exactly that the CIA ran roughshod over British intelligence in the Post 9/11 period or that weren't incidents of gross incompetence (see the CIA's bungled kidnapping attempt in Italy).
Final season was canceled in 2011 after a 10 season run.
And they weren't? It isn't exactly that the CIA ran roughshod over British intelligence in the Post 9/11 period or that weren't incidents of gross incompetence (see the CIA's bungled kidnapping attempt in Italy).
Final season was canceled in 2011 after a 10 season run.
Maybe so, but the show had a very un-American sentiment. The CIA were either traitors or cartoonish buffoons. They also depicted highly stereotyped Arabic and Israeli characters. I liked Harry, Ruth, Roz, and all the rest, but a little hard for a non-Brit to watch all this America bashing; some of it jokingly, most of it not.
Maybe so, but the show had a very un-American sentiment.
The stay away from Top Gear!
Anyway, I always find a different perspective refreshing.
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The CIA were either traitors or cartoonish buffoons.
When you think about it, it isn't all that different from every domestic police procedurals where the CIA and the FBI always come off as buffoonish, incompetent or complicit with some master criminal whose is kept beyond the touch of the long arm of the local lawmen.
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