The Racialicious Roundtable for Undercovers 1.4

Hosted by Arturo R. García

The good news is, NBC ordered an additional 4-6 episodes of Undercovers.

The bad news is, it also asked for nine more episodes of Outsourced.

Actually, there’s been some mixed messages regarding the show over the past few days. Sure, the show’s been granted a stay of cancellation, but even its’ fan blogs have to note that the show’s ratings and viewership continue to drop.

There’s also been posts crediting the show with helping NBC become “the most watched network in black households.” Going by this post from Target Market News, the Peacock does have four of the Top 10 shows for that viewership … but Undercovers comes in at No. 11, having dropped 200,00 viewers between episodes 1.3 and 1.4.

And by now, the cat’s definitely out of the bag about this show, and we’re not the only reviewers out there who see the flaws. As Aymar Jean Christian at Televisual puts it,

In short, Undercovers was a decently executed but ultimately underwhelming project that was hindered by its lack of edge and depth not ambition and quality. It would have done better on USA*, alongside White Collar and Covert Affairs …

We’re just saying, we totally called that a couple of weeks ago. But enough about us … actually, this is the part where we start dishing on Team Bloom’s battle with bad Irish accents in “Jailbreak.”

SPOILERS AHEAD

Any thoughts on the links posted above?

Mahsino: The Televisiual article is annoying. Really “you neither admire nor root for [Mbatha-Raw] (like we do Piper Perabo in Covert Affairs).” We’re comparing Undercovers to Covert Affairs!? Cute, conventionally attractive, white woman starting a new job and is seemingly in over her head is more worthy of praise than Undercovers? I can’t…  And frankly, I’m tired of “a female with a tough-chick reputation (like a Zoe Saldana…”, I think we’re good on “strong Black women”, I just want some level of conflict in the story, either that, or balls to the wall cheesiness.

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