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I really like this series. It's like House of Cards combined with Zero Dark Thirty.. But better. Every episode has an unexpected twist that keeps you hooked for yet another episode.

Now , i'm really hooked up for season 2. Maybe changing location , another embassy, another country, another mission, would make it even better.

Please don't make Kerri Russel's character as vicepresident. We already have seen such series: Veep with Julia Louis Dreyfuss.

The Rufus Sewell's character needs a series for himself. He really needs the head role in a separate series. Diplomacy is his middle name. His character seems more sophisticated and more prone to escapes from conflict zones.

Maybe "send" him to Africa, to some God forsaken and unstable zone like Lybia, Mali or Sudan. Have some SEALS extract him, then lose him in the middle of an enemy jungle somewhere. Humor should come as natural as Africa: chased by hyenas, hunted by rebels, swim with crocodiles on the Nile, couple him with 3 viwes from a zulu tribe, i mean: possibilities are infinite.

This show is good, even great sometimes, but it has a serious problem: Paper!! They have all those computers, and tablets, and phones, and money, and yet they do everything ON paper?? This is ridiculous!! They don't have a digital archive? No scanned documents? I wonder how they find any information in there. It's absolutely hilarious, that firm looks like an seventeen century monastery from Transylvania. Even children in primary school are using digital manuals and quizzes! Who's using tons of paper anymore when you can fit entire libraries on a microsd card? There was a certain episode in which they were using a fax machine!!! Really?!? What's next, a Gutenberg press? Despite all these oldies-nerdies i really enjoy this show, especially that spicy redhead secretary. Personal secretary, another thing of the 20th century. Why not use Siri, or any digital assistant, like 24/7! And they say lawyers are smart! The digital nerds will eat them for breakfast. These lawyers should stop copying words from computer to paper. They should start using copy-paste methods, just like the prime-minister of Romania.

I like this kind of series, Burn Notice, Covert Affairs, etc. Covert Affairs is the best series in many years. Burn Notice is kind of rough, muscle-kind of agent with doubtful intellectual skills, and little-to- none plot between the episodes. Too much flashy action and little actual intel work. And it always takes you to some dump site in the middle of nowhere. No real mark-points and no real plot line.

Covert Affairs is more refined, complicated plots and twists, takes you around the world in big cities with compelling stories. BN is fun, but CA is really breathless. I think they should bring back that mossad guy, he's like spice in every mission. I really don't understand the producers' need for rough physical contacts in every episode. Spying is more like waiting and intel gathering, is like detective work on much higher level.

NB is like fast-forward rapid slackware, CA is just the right speed, although the latest season is losing main characters (and great actors) really fast.