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While I do like some of the shows on the USA Network, the last week has gotten me pretty close to heaving a brick through my set.

First, Covert Affairs. The episode dealt with how one of the characters lost his sight in Iraq. He was the leader of a Special Forces team that went from Baghdad to Tikrit to capture or kill one of the guys on the deck of cards. So they set out. Four or five guys. In one Humvee. In 2007.

Horseshit.

Second, Suits. The idea of the show is that a partner in a white-shoe law firm in Manhattan hires this very bright 20-something kid with a phenomenal memory who has studied law but is not a lawyer. So the kid, with the help of the partner, impersonates being a Harvard law grad and practices law.

Bullshit. You don't get hired into those kinds of firms without a transcript. While it might be possible to go to the school and fly under the radar (class size is over 500), the whole practicing law without a license bit isn't plausible. New York has an online directory of attorneys, so if there was an question of whether or not the kid was legit, it'd take thirty seconds to find out. And once that came out, his boss would be hauled in front of the disciplinary board so fast that his brain would liquefy.

Finally, Burn Notice. I like the show, but the attempt now to "re-burn" the protagonist is getting old. If somebody doesn't like him that much, why don't they just shoot the fucker? I fear that the show is jumping the shark.

Switching networks, AMC's show The Killing ended its first season last month and, rather than end the season with a solution of the murder (which they do in the Danish original), they went with a cliff-hanger until the next season in a year. Which pretty much guarantees that most of the people who could put up with the idea of one homicide case spanning thirteen episodes, won't bother to return. Including me.

SyFy's new show, Alphas, sucked so bad that I didn't make it to the second commercial break.