So Commander In Chief has been brought back, on Thursdays opposite ER. I’m glad to see it, but I can see there’s been some rejiggering. Rod Calloway, in a reversal of one of the major character arcs of the series to date, is moving back into the First Gentleman’s Office, & trying not to play “co-President”–fair enough, I guess, but coming after the hiatus, feels a bit like, “Hey, 3rd show runner, 2nd rejigger, still 1st season!”
And apparently, the series is now set in an alternate reality where there is no US Senate. :dubious:
I mean,* what?!!!* There’s this big snit over the House sticking an expensive anti-drug rider into Mac’s big Bill to Help the Homeless. OK, big deal, pass it sans rider in the Senate, fix it in committee. But NO-O-O! After the House passes it, Mac gives her State of the Union speech, in which she says she’ll veto “HR#(whatever)”–as if there were no such thing as a Senate. Now, I know there was a Senate in earlier eps, so what gives?
I had high hopes for this show…I love West Wing, really like Gena Davis and thought the premise sounded good. I was wrong.
The story plots about the family are just stupid…any political family has been around the block long enough to know what to expect. Also, Gena never really appears “Presidential” in the show…she is more like a very qualified college professor.
I watched the most recent episode and once again…so-so. I will not be surprised when this show is cancelled at the end of the season, without so much as a farewell episode.
I guess my problem with it is just that Donald Sutherland’s character is so evil. I mean, he’s “twirl his mustache, demand the rent from the poor widow, tie the beautiful woman to the train tracks” evil. I’m half expecting him, every episode, to call the President from a secret base and say, “Either sign my tax cut bill or I will use my orbital laser to destroy Cleveland.”