"Designated Survivor - A brief review" Topic
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15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 22 Sep 2016 3:46 p.m. PST |
Kiefer Sutherland returns to network television in ABC's highly anticipated political thriller/crime procedural ‘Designated Survivor.' Unless you've shut yourself from the outside world in a closet, no doubt you have already seen previews of this new scripted series with its bleak premise that the US government is decapitated in one fell swoop when Capitol Hill is destroyed in a huge explosion during the president's state of the union address. Foreseeing such a dark contingency, however unlikely it may be, a cabinet member is assigned to be the "Designated Survivor" link each time all of our proverbial eggs are in one basket so that the line of succession can be maintained. Sutherland finds himself in just such a role as Jack Bauer, ahem, I mean Tom Kirkman, the soft spoken and bespectacled Secretary of Housing and Urban Development on his last night in that capacity. You see, his pet low-income housing project had just been pulled by the president in his annual speech to the nation and he was about to be consigned to obscurity in the plum posting of ambassador to the International House of Pancakes, I mean International Civil Aviation Organization, which you may never have heard of but I assure you is very real indeed link. All but resolved to the end of his inauspicious career in government, Kirkman is utterly unprepared when the unthinkable happened and he's sworn in as president of these United States. Another key character in the show is Maggie Q as an FBI agent investigating the capitol bombing on scene and discovering that things may not be as they seem. Evoking 9/11 and tapping into our anxieties with terrorism, ‘Designated Survivor' is as timely as it is relevant, a political thriller that resembles ‘Madame Secretary' much more than ‘24' and gives us a glimpse of Jack Bauer's kinder and gentler side.
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Toronto48 | 22 Sep 2016 4:38 p.m. PST |
First Episode looked promising Keifer Sutherland was subdued clearly showing the initial shock but he showed that there is some iron there. |
15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 22 Sep 2016 5:24 p.m. PST |
I like the new subdued Sutherland. He resisted the temptation to lash out blindly before getting all the facts and defied the gung ho general pressuring him to go to war. |
Disco Joe | 22 Sep 2016 5:32 p.m. PST |
I liked the show. It definitely has promise. |
zoneofcontrol | 22 Sep 2016 8:34 p.m. PST |
I forgot it was on and only tuned in for about the last half of the show. It looks interesting and I'll check it out again. |
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