Devon Sawa now a series regular for NIKITA season 3

The CW's Nikita promoted someone for a series regular.

After the surprising death of evil mastermind Percie on the season 2 finale, the creators of the always-on-the-bubble spy drama from The CW decided to take their game up a notch.

Devon Sawa, who plays the former Guardian of the black box Owen Elliot, will be joining the ass -kickin' casts of Nikita on its third season.

Owen has been appearing on the show since season 1 as a recurring character only.

Division Divided (NIKITA 2x23 Homecoming Episode Review)

Craig Silverstein, exec producer of NIKITA, had announced that there will be at least one death in the spy action series' finale. 

WARNING: If you have not seen the season finale yet, don't peek below. But if you did already or if you just can't wait to know what happened, then proceed.

There are TWO deaths in this season finale. And boy, one of them is a major character. Those unfortunate souls are....

Niki's Wrath

Maggie Q as NIKITA

The newest episode of NIKITA - 2x19 "Wrath" - proves why I love this spy drama from The CW. Before I give my comments about this amazing episode and the excellent performance of the actors especially Q's, here's a good synopsis from Laura Prudom of the Huffingtonpost.com:

Without revealing too much about the episode's twists, the plot concerns a man that Nikita brought down five years earlier, an arms dealer named Nicholas Brandt (Rick Ravanello), who has spent his time incarcerated sharpening the ax he has to grind against her. Nikita's former boss, Percy (Xander Berkeley), decides to spring Brandt from his Guantanamo-esque prison, offering him revenge against Nikita in exchange for a dangerous weapon. Naturally, after five years, Brandt has some fairly colorful ideas about how to get even with Nikita, but the brilliance of this episode is less in its concept and more in its execution.

Fans of the show all over the world, including me, have been campaigning for an Emmy nomination for Maggie Q eversince the first season of the show last year. After this episode, my heart flutters as my aspirations for a nomination for the actress erupted once again. Just a few weeks/months ago, I've posted that I am quite dissapointed with how the show is going - that it's becoming too complicated. Well, this episode reclaims everything I said before. "Wrath" proves why I love Nikita so much - the show and the character. We've seen another side of Nikita that we thought did not exist. Her "evil" side which she kept on telling herself that is already gone came back as this Brandt tortures her and makes her remember what she did to him before. 

Nikita's downfall

Maggie Q as Nikita

The CW's NIKITA is probably one of the most exciting show of the said network. Its first season was outstanding in every way - plot, acting, script, cinematography, character development, stunts.
I've seen season 1 of Nikita thrice already because I love how the surprises and mysteries were revealed throughout the show. 

But the show's second season is a huge disappointment to the series. The first season ended with a lot of exciting loopholes that needed some answers. However, the subsequent season didn't provide that much thrill and surprises as its predecessor. Nikita is already at the point wherein I have no idea what's going on. The plot and subplots were  interwoven, the characters are getting repetitive and annoying, and the 'questions' are all adding up that it's quite hard to understand anymore.

Furthermore, there are so many characters that it's already difficult to track down their motives and goals. In short, so many things are going on! I know, some shows can put more than 20 characters but can still provide some 3D personality and equal subplots for each character (Downton Abbey;Game of Thrones). But sad to say, the writers of Nikita are lacking this. Everybody seems to want to kill each other so badly. At first it's quite exciting, but it gets annoying when Nikita becomes 'too good to be true'. It's unrealistic, unnatural, and weird.