White Collar 2.2 & Covert Affairs 1.2

[rm]

Well, those were both a lot better.


White Collar

!. Diana is AWESOME and does not need rescuing.
2. Peter is a heavy-handed dumbass when playing bad cop.
3. I liked the idea of a politically-related plot, but I felt it was both oddly complex and oddly simple in a way that didn't quite work.
4. 10K sex-work exchanges, aside from ludicrous, would usually be charge, not cash.
5. I still hate these central mystery things -- the music box, the jigsaw man, I don't care. We need it to raise the stakes and have the push-pull of Peter and Neal's relationship be interesting, but beyond its use, I still find it annoying as hell.
6. Deviled ham can now be added to the list of tragically cock-blocking foods. Along with beans.



Covert Affairs

1. Well, it's better.
2. Slightly less agressively heterosexual. But now instead of romance it's the KIDS AND FAMILY episode.
3. Hey, Anglicans celebrate Lent too.
4. I am so in this show just for Auggie, who I adore more with every millisecond. He is hot and funny and charming, and the fight-training stuff was not stupid and I feel like the camera really lingered on reaction shots from him a few times that are like a bottomless pit of fanfic character development potential. Maybe now I can figure out this story.
5. I almost care about the married couple of CIA execs this time. Almost. But why are they in this show? That's some other show.
6. I don't have a 6. I'll just say AUGGIE again. Guh.

Comments

[therealycats.livejournal.com]

I am so, so happy that they brought Diana back on White Collar. That actress and character are so much more believable than...see, I can't even remember the other's name.

I really like Auggie, and I agree with you that the Peter Gallagher/blonde actress whose name I don't know characters seem to be in their own show...it's almost like Mad Men; Betty/Don's home life is completely separate from Sterling Cooper, and Betty particularly seems to be in her own show. She hardly ever interacts with the other agency characters. Except the difference is that Betty is a part of the protagonist's double life, whereas this couple is just sort of...there.

[marcmagus]

I assume you're talking about Natlie Morales as Lauren Cruz [as IMDB informs me; I'd forgotten the name]. I really liked her in Middleman, and was excited to see her in White Collar, but it kind of felt like the show had no idea what it was doing with that character and she kind of lurked in the background occasionally acting as Exposition Girl or Gopher. I worry that's just my memory playing tricks, though.

[therealycats.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the one. I couldn't remember the character's name because they kept cutting her out of episodes bit by bit. It seemed like when they introduced her it was like she was somehow there as some sort of possible love interest for Neal, except everything Neal did was about Kate. She was just kind of useless, and I just didn't get the feeling from her that she would cut it as an actual FBI agent. Diana seems much tougher and able to hold her on against the boys. I think El does the same in her own environment, so that also kind of balances out the sexual dynamics. Lauren just seemed to sort of float about like Winnie the Pooh's lost balloon, not knowing where to land unless the boys told her.

[coriander.livejournal.com]

That's how I felt about her too, and I really liked her in Middleman, so I was happy to see her.