State of Affairs: "Pilot"

In her first television role since "Grey's Anatomy," Katherine Heigl returns as Charlie Tucker, a top CIA analysis who's responsible for the President's Daily Briefing in the the new NBC series "State of Affairs."

After a year since a terrorist ambush, where Charlie's fiance and the President's son was killed, we see Charlie reliving through those moments while talking to her therapist. Seems Charlie like to take those horrible memories and go to bars, get hit on guys and have a one night stand. So she's a rebellion.

When it comes to crunch time for her and her team, she has to make a decision between saving a doctor before he gets killed by a terrorist group or take down the terrorist who killed her fiance. And when she chooses, it turns into one hell of a typical work day.

Just after Charlie briefs President Constance Payton of the important situation and not mention about how they could take down her son's murderer. Soon the head of the CIA hears about what Charlie and her team has done and gets upsets and puts an arrest warrant for her.

When she gets word of the situation from her team, Charlie decides to go whatever it takes. When a visitor who talked to the head CIA, Charlie thinks that he's spying on the CIA and soon the President. Charlie calls a friend for help, who is a bit like Saul from Homeland, and picks the guy up. He does find a hidden cell phone, which proves Charlie and the team right.

Soon Charlie is trying to get to the President to clear the situation up. She goes beyond the distance, trying to get there. Soon as she gets there, the new CIA director makes an argument that she should be fired.

But after President Payton asked her about it, Charlie gave her her opinion and then told that the guy that the CIA director had was spying on them and soon the President.

Later on during the episode, we see Charlie's been getting secret text messages from someone who knows what happen at that ambush. She tries to get a tracker but it doesn't seem to go anywhere. Later on that evening, as she comes home, her apartment door is open and sees Nick, a CIA operator who was there of the time of the ambush.

Nick shows signs of wounds, talks to Charlie, seems like he has some demons like she does. After she talks to him about if he was responsible for the text messaging, he admits it wasn't him. It seems he's wondering why that moment a year ago isn't effecting her as much as him.

Soon, when Charlie and Payton was at Aaron's memorial, Payton talks to Charlie and gets real, like really real with each other on getting the guy responsible for killing Payton's son and Charlie's fiance.

I got really into the show middle through the pilot. The first part of the pilot was a bit hard to follow but when we got down, meeting the new guy, the team and the situations, things really did pick up. I thought that the situation when Charlie was wanted for what she had done was just thrilling.

I think that this show as the penitential to grow. I like the character of Charlie and the President's relationship but also Charlie's team too.

This show has a bit of network version of Homeland meets with The Blacklist that also meets The West Wing.  

We are left with thrilling situations at the end of the show that'll set the tone of this series. I look forward to tuning in next week to see what this show will do.

You can catch "State of Affairs" Monday nights at 10/9c on NBC