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Sunday TV: Covert Affairs, London bombings film and conclusion to Californication
By Melinda Houston
COVERT AFFAIRS
***
Nic Bishop as Ryan McQuaid and Piper Perabo as kick-ass Annie Walker in Covert Affairs.Credit: USA Network
11.10pm, Seven
As we head into the final season of Covert Affairs, it's fun to remember that it started life as a kooky dramedy about a pretty female CIA agent trying to juggle her work and domestic life. The domestic has long since evaporated, as has the kook. These days it's a full-on spy drama with loveable Annie now totally kick-ass Annie, who tonight continues to pursue the evil Bosnian terrorist Borz, with the help of dashing yet dodgy McQuaid. Full of implausibilities, but engaging all the same.
SUNDAY BEST: 7/7:ONE DAY IN LONDON
***½
8.30pm, ABC2
With the tenth anniversary of the London bombings just days away – and with the subject of homegrown terrorists hotter than ever – this simple and sensitively made 2012 film brings the rhetoric back down to earth. A timeline of the bombings and subsequent response forms the narrative spine on which to thread first-person accounts of survivors, as lovely as they are heartbreaking. As various parties go all-out to whip up a public fever over potential threats, it's salutary to hear from those who lived through a real one.
CALIFORNICATION
Series final
***½
10.25pm, Eleven
This adventurous, moving, surprising and deeply lewd series comes to its conclusion tonight in fine style. And although man-child Hank Moody has spent seven seasons emotionally treading water, somehow we've managed to stay on board with his adventures and his continual, largely ill-fated, attempts to grow in to a real man. Tonight several threads are knotted off with finesse and humour. Fans of Karen and Hank, Charlie and Marcy, Levon, Julia and Rick will be deeply satisfied.