YMMV / Covert Affairs

• Anti-Climax Boss: The final faceoff between Annie and Lena. Especially after having a whole episode building up to that one moment.
• Awesome Music: "Can You Save Me"
• Fan-Preferred Couple: Annie/Auggie is by far the most popular pairing, outstripping Official Couples Annie/Jai and Annie/Ben.
  • And now the Official Couple is Auggie/Annie.
    • And...now it's not.
• Foreshadowing: Probably unintentional, but amusing in light of Season 4. In "Walter's Walk", Auggie and Annie have a discussion about what Annie should do in the event she becomes guardian of her nieces:
  Annie: My sister wants to make me her kids' guardian. What's the CIA policy on that?
  Auggie: Don't tell your family you're on a mission in Colombia.
• Fridge Brilliance: The plot point of Annie's cardiomyopathy makes a good metaphor for her post-Hong Kong state of mind. She's both heartbroken and in the process of becoming heartless.
• Hollywood Homely: 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."
• Growing the Beard: Around the second episode of season 2, the series takes a sharp nosedive on predictability and safety, starting to feel more like a proper spy show.
• Ho Yay: A handful of people are already shipping Auggie/Jai. Well, they are pretty snarky...
  • Jai/Ben is also being considered. One can certainly interpret things into that look that passed between them at the shipyard...
• Special Effects Failure: 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. This may be a deliberate reference to old Chroma Key spy dramas.
• The Woobie: Most of the characters, especially Auggie.

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