11 months ago

Things TV Goodness Learned from Marc Blucas of USA Network’s Necessary Roughness

Photo Credit: Andrew Eccles/USA Network

Actor: Marc Blucas
TV Series: USA Network’s Necessary Roughness
TV Character: Matt Donnelly
Where You’ve Seen Him Before: He was, most famously, Riley on Buffy the Vampire Slayer; he’s done guest star spots on Lie to Me, House and Castle; he was the original David Clarke on ABC’s Revenge, but was already committed to Necessary Roughness. That’s when James Tupper replaced him as Amanda/Emily’s doomed dad.

Warning Spoilers for Season 2 Discussed

After what feels like forever, Necessary Roughness is finally back on USA Network for another season of work and family dysfunction, psychological trauma, football fierceness, and most importantly, Dr. Dani drama. What’s sure to cause some of that drama in this second season has to be the good doctor’s relationship with Matt. These two are adorable and their reunion at the end of last year was sweet. But, there’s no way they’re going to escape this season without experiencing some sort of disturbance, right? In the premiere, Dani and Matt (Datt? Mani?) are keeping their relationship quiet from her kids. Yeah, like that’s going to go well.

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1 year ago

Things TV Goodness Learned from Covert Affairs’ Sendhil Ramamurthy

Actor: Sendhil Ramamurthy
TV Series: USA Network’s Covert Affairs
TV Character: Jai Wilcox, who was recently promoted to Director of Special Projects at the CIA
Where You’ve Seen Sendhil Before: NBC’s Heroes as Dr. Mohinder Suresh and he’s guest-starred on USA Network’s PSYCH.

USA Network’s hit series, Covert Affairs, is about to wrap up its second successful season. TV Goodness recently participated in a conference call featuring the very charming Sendhil Ramamurthy, who plays Jai Wilcox. We gained a lot of insight into Jai’s stormy relationship with his father; what the character’s up to in next week’s finale; and a little bit about Season 3.

Warning: Minor Spoilers for the Covert Affairs finale discussed

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