Into the Fire

Covert Affairs was not renewed. Strong female characters and meaningful interesting male characters, I believe it was the placing of this series that eventually killed it. It's hard to identify the exact moments when these series might've slipped into viewer inconsistency because they're split into short seasons and their return timing is often unpredictable and irregular. This has a lot to do with how the show is followed – or not followed. Viewers miss their returns if DVRs aren't programmed to record new episodes.

In the next to last segment of Covert Affairs (on TNT) the writers changed Annie Walker's (played by Piper Perabo) personality to caustic and at times unlikeable because of it. She attempted to expunge any of her emotional makeup in exchange for a hardened, seasoned covert operative. The change robbed her of her strengths and alienated her closest ally. The last segment restored some of her emotion, made her a more sympathetic character by giving her a serious heart ailment which was not conducive to her bold and physically driven skills.

I will miss this series. I think it was well acted and mostly well written. Perhaps the powers that be backed themselves into a corner by giving Annie a potentially debilitating condition and also bringing an unflinching love interest, a fellow action hero, into her life who proposes to her. I guess we'll never know how that turned out. 

I've written many posts about Reckless, and I still believe CBS had no intention of allowing this show to succeed. The network kept the dismal and boring Extant (most likely because it stars Halle Berry) as a summer replacement while dismissing Reckless. As I've explained in previous posts, Reckless had it all. CBS continually moved it around with little promotion and advertised it as a steamy soap opera when they did market it. Reckless was far more than that. Many viewers never saw it on CBS because they didn't know it existed. When Netflix ran the episodes, a flood of new viewers begged for its renewal. So far it hasn't mattered. This brief "series" made it into my all-time favorites during its brief and unfinished debut. Should have been renewed.

Father, your benevolence is so often overlooked or attributed to humanity. The skills you inherently plant in the hearts of people, if recognized, can fulfill the desires of the heart. Only you can accomplish this in people. Thank you for loving mankind in spite of us. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.