I am the "Designated Survivor" of this bullshit!

You appear to be the only datalounger who watched it.

I laughed when I first heard the title. You can almost hear the cliched announcer voice: "In a WORRRRRRRRRRRLD....

It was fun in a Seven Days of may sort of way. Also, the outsider gets power and the insiders plot against him while the FBI tries to figure out who did the attack and when another will commence.

I watched it. It sucked.

It was so bad that it made "Quantico" seem realistic.

Terrorism as entertainment = Government-sanctioned terrorism as the new normal.

They should have given the role to a woman!

R6

The NSA/CIA fingerprints are all over this piece of "entertainment".

I enjoyed it, in a 'pop some corn and suspend your disbelief' kind of way. The unexpected new president is apparently more liberal than the dead president; the new guy is an academic (nice touch), and they're setting up a conflict between compromised civilian government and established military power--which has happened and does still in many parts of the world. It's not accurate to call this a propaganda piece from the security = war types.

The General who want s to take over (is he defense secretary, national security advisor, or what?) is properly arrogant and that character actor is good.

What made me laugh is that "The Designated Survivor" was the Secretary of Housing, the job Trump said if he is elected he wants to give to Scott Brown.

All terrorism as the new normal, all the time. It's entertainment, too.

“France has to learn to live with terrorism.” - Manuel Valls

I just saw the commercial for it and thought Keifer looked tiny and old. And I wondered about the glasses. How does he look on the show?

R9--please tell me you are kidding about that actor. He is terrible! And I'm not just judging by this shitshow...he's also stinkin' up the joint over at AMC's Turn.

More fear porn. I hate TV, I hate all the darkness.

And how many shows do we need about the White House? No wonder no one trusts government these days.

I hate TV too, it's all darkness, fear or the grotesque and stupid - all day. It's an ugly kind of brainwashing.

Didn't they already do this and call it Battlestar Galactica when the the Secretary of Education became reluctant, fish-out-of-water President?

I thought it was a pretty good pilot and I plan to continue watching. It's much better than This Is Us or Pitch.

I watched and it just wasn't as good as I expected it to be. Keifer does looks small and old. Maggie Q is taking the Hollywood diet to extremes with her toothpick arms and lollipop head, and Kal Penn is getting fat and gross. I don't know if I want to look at these people every week. Also, the daughter is already annoying the shit out of me.

Tanner Buchanan, who plays Kiefer's son, is totes adorbs.

What is it with Kiefer Sutherland? Has he no shame?

When you turn on the TV, you can tell we are a pretty sick nation...constant violence. I surf around trying to find something that hasn't got people shooting each other or beating g each other up. It's gross.

This fantasy- that the rest of the nation would fall apart if DC were destroyed- is the most offensive part of this tripe.

Without all the bureaucracy the people would be free to innovate and trade without worrying about violating some obscure federal regulation.

We'd lose our reps and Senators, no new laws would appear for a while, but most cities of any size have federal offices, and even the dead reps and Senators have home teams, so given that the new prez right off the bat warned foreign countries not to mess with us because we could and would respond, we'd just clean up the DC mess and call elections and continue as usual.

Every single line was a cliche. So disappointing.

The fruit of Hollywood and cultural nepotism.

Identity Politics are regressive, and the idea that one culture is superior is a lie.

I watched it, both premiere and tonight's episode, and I'm enjoying it.

Most of you idiots are assholes.

The second episode was even better, and more satisfying from a progressive POV, than the first. Those of you dismissing it as right-wing crap might want to rethink that. People here said the same thing about "The Americans" at the beginning, and were proved way wrong.

Third episode was good as well. And it just got a full season pick-up.

I'm really enjoying it actually.

Sorry, OP, others: I fucking LOVE this show; is one of my new favorites. Can't quite explain why. Think is VERY well-acted, well-written, and well-directed. And I used to hate, but now love, Maggie Q.

Me too, R29. I have no idea what crawled up the OP's ass.

I'm looking forward to this show each week more than most other shows I watch now.

Finally voices of reason amid tv malcontents with shit for taste.

I like it. It's my favorite new show.

I find This Is Us unbearable, especially after finding out something happens to remove Milo's character from Mandy's life. I find myself waiting for a safe to fall out of the sky and hit him on the head. He'd better not get in a car while drinking.

The network show I like most right now is Chicago Med. I cannot get enough of Nick Gehlfuss or Colin Donnell. If only their characters could not get enough of each other.

[quote]I fucking LOVE this show; is one of my new favorites. Can't quite explain why.

I'd bet a few people in the NSA could.

The children are fucking awful. The little girl giggles constantly and the teenage boy is fugly.

r11, France has less crime and fewer homicides than we do.

"Most of you idiots are assholes."

You're so eloquent, R26. Are you writing for this piece of shit?

It's horrible. Laughable, even. And because Kiefer insisted that it shoot in Toronto on soundstages it's packed with bland, utterly uninteresting Canadian actors.

I have to agree with R36 on the Canada issue. I aboat had a coww listening to the son speak. It's hoah I realized it was shoat in Trawnno.

I love it. But Kiefer mumbles too much. It's hard to understand him. Good, frothy fun.

[quote] I hate TV too, it's all darkness, fear or the grotesque and stupid - all day. It's an ugly kind of brainwashing.

Then, you're missing out on all of the great, intelligent television that is not on network TV.

Sort of ironic that pretty much ALL of the actors in the lead/regular roles are non-American.

Kiefer: Canadian

First Lady: Brit

The press secretary guy: Mexican

Emily: Canadian

The only Americans are the two who look the least "traditionally American": Kal Penn and Maggie Q.

r39, Game of Thrones is not intelligent

I think it's a fantastic show

[quote]But Kiefer mumbles too much. It's hard to understand him.

It's because he also whispers all the time.

Let's face it, enunciation is a lost art.

And now, a dramatic reading of carefully edited and phonetically-spelled excerpts from approved parts of the Constitution.

Please welcome Mr. Sean Hannity.

It's a fantastic show!

[quote]Kiefer insisted that it shoot in Toronto

Oh, it's his foalt.

I like it enough to watch it, and enjoyed last night's upping of the intrigue, but I hope it doesn't get stretched out too long, the way ABC did with Revenge, which should have been a one-season show, two tops.

It gets worse and worse. The starting premise was fair enough.

But I gave up when the Deputy Head of the FBI was LITERALY running around like a headless chicken looking for his kidnapped son, driving to the baseball ground, asking the coach 'have you seen my son?' and lady steps out of the shadows with the picture of the kidnapped boy, eating icecream, do whatever we tell you yadda yadda yadda

What bollocks.

To say nothing of the crappy script constructed around commercial breaks every 10 minutes.

First Season of Homeland it 'aint.

It gets better and better.

Fun and entertaining.

Who plays Maggie Q's tech slave?

Problems keep going away

I enjoy it, so the rest o' yas can kick rocks.

Me to, R52. Me to.

r8 Yes.

R54

It's amazing how many people believe that the NSA/CIA/DHS/FBI are full of wonderful and intelligent people with the best interests of the Little People in their heart. Bullshit. They are just tentacles of the American Imperial Police State.

Does anyone really believe that the country would fall apart if DC got swallowed in a bog?

Washington produces nothing but bureaucracy and propaganda, and the rest of the country would be better off without it.

I love the show, and it was a great mid-season finale.

Sucks that it doesn't return until fucking MARCH.

It's actually difficult to watch sometimes because of what is really happening right now, with people both inside and outside the government conspiring to bring it down and "make America great again" (which is almost a direct quote from what the evil cabal behind everything in the show said).

Right about now I wish this was not a tv show. 😏😏

When does it come back?

I think it is awful too. Takes a lot for me to bail on a show I think I will like but I bailed on this one (and now just ff through Scandal.) Sutherland is miscast... the rest of the cast are bad actors.... just can't get there.

Umm, tonight, R59

dumbing down americans about foreign relations (and everything else) is part of the plan, it worked splendidly on Nov. 8.

I am actually enjoying it, and the politics are progressive. Sure the conspiraracy seems over-the-top, but then again, reality is so fucked up now, maybe only over-the-top works.

Right wingers make movies and TV shows and of course Kiefer Sutherland raises his hand to do it. His Dad must be so proud that his little closeted, alcoholic son can even get a job.

Just found this on Netflix. A few episodes in I get a dumbed down “The West Wing meets Alias” vibe.

I’d watch it if Kiefer gets naked . Otherwise, it’s so damn dumb. I mean ... it’s network television dumb.