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More than one breakthrough

UndercoversNBC's new show Undercovers, which premieres tonight, is generating a lot of buzz for being one of the exceedingly rare network dramas to feature two black lead actors. (Good old liberal Hollywood, always being dragged kicking and screaming toward ethnic diversity.)

But even better than that, I think, is the fact that the two are a happily married couple. No sleeping around, no will-they-won't-they, no break-up-and-makeup until the audience is exhausted. A real, honest-to-goodness marriage.

That's the freshest breath of air I've felt coming from television in a very long time.

(Image copyright Greg Gayne/Warner Bros.)

Comments:

Well, after watching half of the episode, I cut my losses and switched to an NCIS rerun. It's a shame it wasn't better.
I wonder if it was inspired by the NCIS episode of that name in the third season.
Let's just hope it's well done and well received.
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Interesting!
Are spy shows with double-entendre names the new thing? First we have Covert Affairs and now we have Under Coverrs?

It is a cute idea though.

There have in fact been real life spy-couples. At times in the past CIA wives would help their husbands on on jobs. Often they weren't official officers and the agency, in it's infinite gratitude, would write them off as another form of mercenary.