How long did they say it’s been since the attack now, a week? :dubious: The Congressman has already been sent home from the hospital, but he hasn’t met with the Congresswoman to elect her as Speaker of the House yet (even if they’re from opposite parties it’s the most prudent thing). Nor has even a single governor sent replacement senators to Washington yet. Also if the schools & stock markets are open why are the federal courts still closed? Obliviously the Supreme Court can’t function will all of it’s members dead, but US district courts & US appeals courts should still be functioning. Especially for emergency motions. Or does Kirkman plan on keeping them close so he can try the Governor of Michigan before a military tribunal instead? :rolleyes:
I don’t think it is available on US Netflix. It is available here on Netflix (Netherlands) but on a one week embargo, which means it is always an episode behind.
Pakistan its out shortly after US Broadcast (which is early in the morning our time), which means about usually early afternoon.
Looking at cable channels, yes it is shown on a couple of channels at the same time as the US.
I finally just caught up and I am kind of digging it. Still hate the whisper talk and all the family (mostly dopey son) melodrama but it is a decent show.
My question about Virginia Madsen has been answered but apparently she is just ambitious and not involved in the conspiracy (maybe?).
Still waiting for the inevitable scene of doughy old white men in a room discussing their evil master plan. Maybe that will be the finale.
It’s Kirkman.
Not a bad episode, I’d say. Nice to see the new Press Secretary step up to the plate.
Definitely should be some new, governor-appointed U.S. senators arriving in Washington by now.
Incredible mistake for the President to lure the Governor of Michigan to Washington on a pretext of peaceful talks, and then order his arrest. A huge political error IMHO. Even Lincoln didn’t do that during the Civil War - he had some Maryland legislators arrested (as stated on the show), but not a governor. Better to fight him in the courts - get an injunction - relieve the Mich. Natl. Guard top general who disobeyed the federalization order, and work your way down the chain of command until you get someone who remembers his (or her) oath. Now Kirkman’ll make the governor even more of an alt-right hero.
The President really should have some White House or DOJ lawyers advising him, not his wife.
No First Kids this episode, and still no nanny hired.
It was, I thought, a pleasingly unexpected resolution to the why-was-the-Congressman-out-of-his-seat plotline. Not everything has to be part of the conspiracy.
And about time Kirkman fired his top general! I expect we’ll see the dude again, as a political foe out of uniform.
A GQ inspired by the show: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=807991
Take a week off for debates and folks forget about you. A few revelations in last night’s episode. The Congressman is in on it. He rode out the blast in a secret bomb shelter built during a Capitol renovation by a bunch of conveniently deceased construction guys.
My guess is that the woman who put Agent Anorexia onto that is the widow of one of the workers.
Oh, and Kirkman is considering appointing the guy VP.
I forgot the show too. I’ll catch up by watching online.
Yay! A new asshole every week! They were starting to run out of assholes… :rolleyes:
I’m actually not convinced that Congressman Asshole is in on the plot. Why does he refuse power and keep saying he just wants to serve? Has he suddenly got a conscience? Did he think that as the only congressional survivor, he would be President, and suddenly he finds out that there was a Designated Survivor and a Congressional Designated Survivor, so his plans have come to naught? Does he still have plans to take out the other two DSes, and being Speaker would interfere with those plans?
The interactions between Agent Anorexia and her boss set my teeth on edge. She tries to make a point and her boss humiliates her for several minutes before she can get a word in edgewise. Is that bad writing or bad acting?
I liked the episode where they put Governor Michigan into federal prison for treason.
Anyway, bottom line is that it seems to me that the writers don’t really have a clear vision or direction and are making it up as they go along. Same thing happened in “24”.
Perhaps that was a deliberate way to encourage his nomination for the open VP slot.
They do seem to be ignoring the fact that there would be a fair number of people qualified for VP or Cabinet positions that weren’t at the SOU, mostly former office holders. (As long as they don’t pick Dick Cheney.)
Good point. Then he only needs to conspire with the other assholes to get Kirkman impeached or something.
I’m going to assume then that the Congresswoman is genuinely not in on it. She may ambitious and opportunistically taking advantage of the situation to put herself in the Oval Office come the next election (or sooner), but she’d not part of “the Conspiracy” (which is getting unnecessarily convoluted).
Agreed. Wouldn’t it have been easier to conspire to make that guy the designated Congress survivor rather than building a bomb shelter and killing a dozen or so building contractors?
Agreed as to both.
When Agent Anorexia’s FBI supervisor asked if she’d told anyone else about what she’d found, and she said no, I assumed, in typical Hollywood style, that he would then kill her, thus revealing that he was in on the conspiracy too. That’s just how these things go.
I just opened this thread. My (12-year-old) son was watching House of Cards and I had to stop that after I started watching it … (Cue the"Hey mom and dad come see what is your kid watching on tv?" PSA) and we are watching g this together. My son loves political thrillers it seems, and I am planning to enjoy (or watch) it with him.( Well he has thus far disliked fantasy, superheroes, Sci -fi, sports movies, costume dramas and things where “stuff happens that wouldn’t ever in real life.” He even hates skittles commercials where people have the skittle touch… )
We love Kiefer Sutherland as POTUS since he is the grandson of Tommy Douglas (the father of Canadian universal health care ) although Grandpa Tommy would probably think Bernie Sanders was the only US politician not too right for him.
My gut hurt when we met the members of the SEAL team. Usually we meet characters who die. Glad they didn’t , but losing the mission commander still hurt.
I see some plot holes and tropes, but this is fun to watch with a 12 year old political junkie just new to watching drama.
At least one of the SEAL team members we met was obviously doomed. I’m surprised one didn’t have a boat named “Live Forever”.
Yeah, another Hollywood cliche. You had to know at least one of the three SEALs to whom the President spoke was gonna snuff it on that mission.
My son is new to the trope/drama series in general I said “please let this be the grizzled old commander’s last mission” because I really didn’t want a posthumously born baby.
(My dad’s own father had a “last mission before vacation and meet his new baby son” plane crash in WW II, when Dad was 5 weeks old. The Co-pilot on the plane’s daughter was born 3 months later. So I really dislike that trope. If the Daddy-to-be had died I probably would have quit watching the show.)
No episode this week.
previews look good for next week. About time the President talks directly with the Governors and gets started rebuilding the Federal government.
I wasn’t impressed by the sounds of gunfire, in the preview. I hope that’s a fake out to add some suspense. There’s no way that building wouldn’t be *surrounded *by troops protecting these critically important people. They’ve already lost the Federal gov. No way can they let the governors of the states get knocked off next.
That does bring up a good point that rebuilding the government will be risky. The motives of the attackers are still not fully known. How will they try to influence the rebuilding of the government? Will they try to take control?