‘State of Affairs’ episode 3 preview: What’s next for Katherine Heigl in ‘Half the Sky’?

Love “State of Affairs“? Then you should be pretty happy with knowing that there is some more big stuff coming on the NBC before long … as in next week.

“Half the Sky” is the title for the next installment, and the theme here seems to be giving you a whole lot more information about Charlie and Nick’s past, while at the same time also informing you about a major crisis in the present. If the show can pull of the storyline regarding the girls in Nigeria, they may really build some momentum and credibility towards being a very good show.

Take a look at the synopsis below for some early information on what you can expect:

“Charlie (Katherine Heigl) has flashbacks of her arrival at Midnight City where she first met Nick (guest star Chris L. McKenna) and witnessed him brutally interrogate Fatah (guest star Farshad Farahat). When members of the militant Islamist movement Boko Haram kidnap 21 Nigerian girls, President Payton (Alfre Woodard) tasks Charlie with the logistically impossible — to find and save the girls without Nigeria knowing the U.S. was ever involved. Meanwhile, President Payton hosts the Chinese president (Tzi Ma) at Camp David and realizes that she can use their trade talks to get something she really wants.”

One of the biggest things that we really wonder right now is how this show’s model is going to work long-term, and if we are going to see a different international crisis every week, or eventually a few things strung together. We feel like this is a show that would benefit more from being serialized, but for a variety of reasons, we’re not sure if NBC wants to go there.

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