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Undercovers
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Undercovers is a lighthearted espionage drama from J. J. Abrams and co-creator Josh Reims. It averted the Noughties Drama Series formula of Abrams shows like Alias, Lost and increasingly Fringe, concentrating on self-contained episodes.Steven and Samantha Bloom are a married couple operating a catering business in Los Angeles. They are also once-formidable agents with the Central Intelligence Agency. Through assistant director Carlton Shaw, they are re-enlisted to rescue—or capture—missing agent Leo Nash.The show was canceled midway through its first season. | |
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Annoying Younger Sibling | |
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Annoying Younger Sibling: Samantha's sister Lizzy who works at their catering company. | |
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Boisterous Bruiser | |
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Boisterous Bruiser: Leo Nash, at least according to Steven's description. | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: The minefield scene. | |
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Minored in Ass-Kicking | |
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Minored In Ass Kicking: Hoyt. At first you thing that Hoyt was just a techie, but he showed that he had game! | |
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Recycled IN SPACE! | |
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Recycled IN SPACE!: The show has been described as Hart to Hart (or Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)) WITH A BLACK COUPLE! | |
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Decade Dissonance | |
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Anybody who has been to Madrid once could write a long list of things that are plain wrong with the pilot, but those 1970s-looking posters advertising The World Cup with grammar mistakes and a chubby guy in a three-piece suit sporting a mustache straight from The Edwardian Era note The lamest possible cameo Greg Grunberg could made in his career deserve an award. And just as we thought soccer was making inroads in the United States... | |
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Ivy League for Everyone | |
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Ivy League for Everyone: Samantha was recruited while at Yale. Truth in Television, the CIA and other organizations tend to look for intelligent, highly-motivated recruits and Yale specifically has a long association with the agency. | |
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Magical Computer | |
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Magical Computer Played straight and somewhat averted in the pilot. The leads recruit the services of a cryptographer to help decrypt computer files. He notes this will take at least six hours to do so. However, he also notes that he can find the computer the files were transferred from simply because he has the files and is able to do so right away. An analogy would be like copying a paragraph from a book to a sheet of paper and someone being able to tell you the specific copy as well as where that particular book is right now. "Devices" has the team lift fingerprints off a untreated glass using a cellphone with high enough resolution to get a single positive match. | |
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Evil Counterpart | |
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Evil Counterpart: In "Not Without My Daughter" Steven and Samantha run into a married couple of spies from the DSGE who are willing to hold a defecting North Korean physicist's daughter as collateral to secure an important piece of tech (and would have killed father and daughter both, as well, had they gotten what they wanted). | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Director Shaw, who turns abusing sarcasm into an art form. Leo, especially when teasing Steven about his past relationship with Samantha. | |
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Idiosyncratic Wipes | |
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Idiosyncratic Wipes: Setting changes are announced by postcards come to life, complete with a modern Regional Riff. | |
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Brief Accent Imitation | |
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Brief Accent Imitation: Samantha frequently pretends to be English, using Mbatha-Raw's real accent. | |
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Unusual Euphemism | |
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Also "sexpionage". | |
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Television Geography | |
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Television Geography: In "Not Without My Daughter", there's no way the first scene takes place in North Korea - it's too well-lit. North Korea at night is a big black empty space above South Korea◊, not to mention that in Pyongyang, there is a mandatory lighting reduction after 9 pm at night. Anybody who has been to Madrid once could write a long list of things that are plain wrong with the pilot, but those 1970s-looking posters advertising The World Cup with grammar mistakes and a chubby guy in a three-piece suit sporting a mustache straight from The Edwardian Era note The lamest possible cameo Greg Grunberg could made in his career deserve an award. And just as we thought soccer was making inroads in the United States... | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Every episode has an ongoing fight between the Blooms, ranging from Samantha's "sexpionage" to Steven not-reading the directions for an espresso machine to reliance on technology. Shaw extremely reluctantly sending the Blooms on missions and hating the way they finish each other's sentences. | |
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