John from Riverside Posted January 11, 2022 Posted January 11, 2022 Anybody watch the series designated Survivor i’m binging this right now into season two I got to say I’m hooked Quote
UConn James Posted January 11, 2022 Posted January 11, 2022 It had an interesting premise, with fairly strong leads (Keizer Southerland, Maggie Q, the blonde lady senator whose name I forget now…), and cool sets. The writing and acting was a major off-put for me, though; it was very try-hard and followed a lot of standard political trope that “The West Wing” frankly did much, much, much better. It also cribbed from the Geena Davis-as-the-impromptu-President series. With the Netflix pick-up of the series, all of this just got much worse and it turned into a thing of characters’ interpersonal relationships conjuring all the hot-button issues (with a leftist slant) of the time wrt transgender / gay, fairly stupid and derivative conspiracy that had some interest to it but was dropped cold, addiction, White House kids with the stereotypical problems. It was a lot of recycling of old things and strained to come up with the political intrigue material it wanted to address. If you want to watch a presidential drama, The West Wing is and ever will be the gold standard. 1 Quote
PastaJoe Posted January 11, 2022 Posted January 11, 2022 I enjoyed it. The last season had some significant twists. But like the Jan 6 insurrection it was a bit frustrating in how long it took to uncover the ringleaders. Quote
Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted January 11, 2022 Posted January 11, 2022 'Designated Survivor'. And if you pull a 'kirkwoodus13' and say "Everyone knew what I meant!", you're going to get a kick in the pecans. 🤨 * 😁 Quote
dpberr Posted January 11, 2022 Posted January 11, 2022 I watched the first two seasons. Designated Survivor had a hard time deciding whether it wanted to be Scandal, 24 or West Wing. The show had numerous showrunners, so each season felt differently story wise. I feel Designated Survivor and the Andre Braugher led "Last Resort" that was on ABC for a year suffered because they were high concept political thrillers on a network that wants to play it safe. You put Designated Survivor on say, FX, and the show would have been a lot more interesting. There was a day when the networks were cool with showing nuclear war (The Day After), the Soviets taking over the United States (Amerika) and the FBI in a running gun battle in broad daylight (Line of Duty, the FBI Murders, retelling of the 1986 Miami Dade shootout between the FBI and Matix/Platt). Quote
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted January 11, 2022 Posted January 11, 2022 8 hours ago, John from Riverside said: Anybody watch the series designated Survivor i’m binging this right now into season two I got to say I’m hooked oops. i misread that hours ago loved the show Quote
Miyagi-Do Karate Posted January 11, 2022 Posted January 11, 2022 11 hours ago, John from Riverside said: Anybody watch the series designated Survivor i’m binging this right now into season two I got to say I’m hooked As others said, it was great the first two seasons, and the last Netflix season was just plain awful. Got away from its roots to create something more edgy. Also, as I recall, not a very satisfying ending to the series. Quote
Doc Posted January 12, 2022 Posted January 12, 2022 On 1/11/2022 at 7:35 AM, PastaJoe said: I enjoyed it. The last season had some significant twists. But like the Jan 6 insurrection it was a bit frustrating in how long it took to uncover the ringleaders. You're going to be incredibly frustrated then... Quote
ndirish1978 Posted January 17, 2022 Posted January 17, 2022 First couple of seasons were not bad. The third is simply a different show. 1 Quote
Doc Posted January 17, 2022 Posted January 17, 2022 8 minutes ago, ndirish1978 said: First couple of seasons were not bad. The third is simply a different show. Yeah. My wife watched the first 2 seasons and then the 3rd and was struck by all the swearing, after not hearing any the first 2 seasons. Quote
ndirish1978 Posted January 17, 2022 Posted January 17, 2022 19 minutes ago, Doc said: Yeah. My wife watched the first 2 seasons and then the 3rd and was struck by all the swearing, after not hearing any the first 2 seasons. They were on network tv and then got picked up by netflix season 3. Quote
Doc Posted January 17, 2022 Posted January 17, 2022 33 minutes ago, ndirish1978 said: They were on network tv and then got picked up by netflix season 3. Yup. Just saying that she wasn’t used to them swearing. Quote
unbillievable Posted January 17, 2022 Posted January 17, 2022 I tried watching it, but got frustrated by the poor decisions made by the characters. I guess I got used to the West wing where it made more sense. Quote
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