With the second episode of Undercovers, we can see that the show seems to follow the formulaic path we all know: first a teaser about the mission to come followed by the assignment itself, and then its development and conclusion. Nothing new.
As in many spy/action shows and movies, one of the things that can make the path more dynamic is to take the action into new and different locations. This week, the action starts in Pakistan, where a pair of armed men escort some business men into a science lab located in the middle of the desert. What seems to be a business meeting turns into a massacre when one of the men (John) suddenly opens fire, surprising his comrades (John's brother, Bruce and Hollis Krueger) killing the business men and all the scientists working in the lab. With everybody dead, John finds what he had been seeking: Dr. Nassir, the only survivor of the massacre, a scientist whom John hopes to coerce into creating a bomb once she learns that they have her husband.
The action now moves to the Bloom's catering company, the business Samantha and Steven Bloom opened together after marrying and leaving the espionage; now it serves as cover-up after they got reactivated as agents in the pilot episode. In this scene, we see Samantha and Steven bickering over a coffee machine he broke after not reading the instructions. It's impossible not to smile at this situation because it is so domestic and fun, plus the chemistry between these two make it believable. As you probably can imagine the bickering could continue on and on but Lizzy (Sam's sister, who also works in the catering) interrupts them by announcing Carlton Shaw (Sam and Steven's boss at the agency), or as she calls him, the "hotel guy".
In Bloom's little office, Shaw informs them of Dr. Nassir's kidnapping and presents them the suspects (John, Bruce and Krueger). Once he explains the mission, Shaw shows some distrust to the couple's spy abilities, which are a bit rusty after years off the field.
Shaw has definitely a point; after all, if Steven doesn't even know how to make a coffee machine work, how can he complete this complex mission successfully? Afterwards, Sam announces that she must leave for a trip again, leading Lizzy to believe that they are planning to sell the catering business to the "hotel guy" (you know, spies, they always have that double life!), which could leave her without a job and, possibly relapsing to alcoholism.
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Article comments
1 - NancyGail
Nice pic. It might help in future to stick in actor names in parentheses next to the character played.
2 - Olga
Sure thing, Nancy! I'll keep that in mind for next week's review
3 - barbara barnett
Nice piece Olga. It looks like an interesting show.
4 - Gerry
Very nice review!
5 - Olga
Thanks ladies! Glad you liked it! I'm having a good vibe with this show so more to come really soon : )
6 - Keesha
I will watch the third episode still hoping the show gets better. As it, it's not worth watching. Boris is doing a great job but that actress? It's like he's doing Roger Moore's James Bond and she thinks she's in Merchant & Ivory. She needs to lighten up. I'm talking about the actress, not the character. This is a piece of fluff spy show and she needs to get with the program. She is the biggest problem with the show. She's not right for the project and she's not right for Boris. Put her in a Law and Order and she'd excel but light comedy is beyond her.