History YMMV / CovertAffairs

** Thus far into the third season, thanks too [[spoiler: Danielle now knowing that Annie's a spy]] this dynamic has changed to one of tension where Annie has to balance out [[spoiler: telling Danielle how things actually went and telling her the official story. It is suggested that Danielle for her part has often figured out various cover stories but realizes she can't exactly ask what the truth is nor could Annie tell her.]]

** ''{{Subverted}}'' in "World Leader Pretend.'' [[spoiler: Annie's sister kicks her out after finding out she's in the CIA.]]

* [=~Hey, It's That Guy!~=]:
** Auggie used to be [[UglyBetty Henry]], [[HarpersIsland Henry Dunn]], and Jake from [=~Jake 2.0~=].
*** Which, if you consider [=~Jake 2.0~=] means he's worked for the CIA and the NSA.
*** And [[{{Popular}} Harrison]]!
** Annie's sister was [[MadMen Francine Hanson]] and [[{{House}} Amber "Cutthroat Bitch" Volakis]].
** Arthur Campbell was [[TheOC Sandy Cohen]] and [[GuysAndDolls Sky Masterson]].
** Arthur's spy, Jai Wilcox, was [[Series/{{Heroes}} Dr. Mohinder Suresh]].
*** His father was [[TwentyFour once the President]].
** Reporter Liza Hearn once [[{{Smallville}} married Lex Luthor]].
*** And slept with--and then [[spoiler:was [[MercyKill mercy-killed]] by]] [[Series/{{Supernatural}} Sam Winchester]]
** Annie was the star of ''CoyoteUgly'', and [[ThePrestige Robert Angier's wife]].
*** She also played another naive-but-driven federal agent in RockyAndBullwinkle: TheMovie.
*** There was that one time she [[{{ImagineMeAndYou}} fell in love]] with [[{{TheSarahConnorChronicles}} Lena Heady]].
** Eyal is [[TheMummyTrilogy Ardeth Bay]].
** Ex-spy Christopher [=McAuley=] is [[{{ER}} Doctor Peter Benton]].
** Senator Jarvis's wife is [[{{NCIS}} Director Jenny Shepherd.]]
** Annie's mysterious ex Ben Mercer is [[BandOfBrothers Private Webster]], and also the med-student boyfriend in ''CenterStage''
** [[{{Warehouse13}} Ms. Fredrick's]] now-dead bodyguard apparently had a double life as a generic henchmen in "When The Levee Breaks"
** Kai from BeingErica went from being a Canadian indie musician to an American CIA operative-in-training.
** [[Film/{{Thor}} Sif]] works tech support for the CIA?
* HollywoodHomely: The embassy representative that Annie must get to turn her remarks that no one pays her any attention because she isn't good looking. Considering a few scenes prior she's wearing (quite well) a cocktail dress that shows off quite a bit, it's... not a convincing complaint.
** Vivian of the first season episode "I Can't Quit You, Baby."

*** And slept with--and then [[spoiler:was [[MercyKill mercy-killed]] by]] [[{{Supernatural}} Sam Winchester]]

* UnfortunateImplications: Averted. Auggie is blind, well-developed, well-acted and complex, and the show actually researches technology for the visually impaired, including his ''awesome'' laser cane. Jai is Indian, and presumably adopted or of mixed-race, but his race is never bought up and his (white) dad is invariably referred to just as his dad. Joan and Arthur started off their relationship, which became a marriage, having an affair, and the portrays them both sympathetically and with realistic consequences, such as Joan's understandable worries that Arthur might be cheating on ''her''. Joan has described herself as not being a "CIA wife", but "a wife who works for the CIA". Oh, and the lead of the show is a complicated young woman with issues from her last failed relationship. ''Everyone'' is portrayed even-handedly.

* AmbiguouslyAutistic: Reva

* CannotSpitItOut: Annie wanting to read-in her sister.

* AmbigouslyAutistic: Reva

** [[Film/Thor Sif]] works tech support for the CIA?

** Arthur Campbell was [[TheOC Sandy Cohen]].

* SpecialEffectsFailure: Much like sister show, White Collar, some of the green screen scenes are... dubious. In London, Annie sits in a park during "I Can't Quit You, Baby" and it's painfully obvious that the park is a green screen. To a lesser extent, the backgrounds during any driving scene where the actors are in the car talking.

** Jai/Ben is also being considered. [[spoiler: One can certainly interprete things into that look that passed between them at the shipyard...]]

*** His father was [[TwentyFour once the Vice President]].