User Reviews

I have to admit I agree with some of the negative comments on this recent direction in the show. There are liberties taken with the way politics works. Of course, when you get down to it, for many people, the only issue that matters is having no controls or checks on guns. What happened to dealing with a cinematic presentation without making it about your own belief system. That's for the editorial page. If the bill had been defeated, they would have put up tens. These should be reviews. I have no problem with inaccuracies being pointed out. I have not problem with criticism of poor writing. But I'm so tired of this space being used for editorializing, one way or the other. It's the Internet Movie Database.

Excellent episode detailing what an administration has to do to enact legislation. Meeting with the individual senators and considering the politics involved as well as how these people, up for reelection in November, must act according to their constituents.

Amazing to see the the tie forged between the Republican speaker and the Democratic President. Of course, politics is involved as she wishes to stop the overly ambitious Sen. Bowman from running for president.

This story-line was down to earth and realistic. It certainly overshadowed the threat the nation is under by Jason and Agent Welles discovery of the bomb factory in North Dakota. I'm not making light the threat to national security.

The central thread of this show is a massive terrorist attack on the US capitol building by an unknown group that appears to be a well-organized and well-financed domestic insurgency. A great premise, but the writers are not capable of fulfilling its promise.

In episode 15, Hannah Wells was able to identify and locate the mysterious dark haired lady who we all know is a linchpin of the insurgency. We know it, and Hannah knows it. Yet when she goes to get her, she brings along Jason Atwood, the discredited former Assistant Director of the FBI. No other backup. Predictably, everything goes pear shaped and the lady lies dead on the ground with a handy computer showing more intended targets.

So now we are in episode 16. (CAREFUL NOW: Here comes the spoiler. If you haven't watched the episode yet, close your eyes and hit the back button). Wells decides to go to North Dakota with Atwood because the mysterious dark haired woman went there a lot. They manage to stumble into an abandoned missile silo that has a conveniently concealed, but easily found, entrance door hidden in a forest. There they find that the insurgency has more explosives than Carter has liver pills. No insurgent guard anywhere in sight. (OKAY, THAT'S IT, END OF SPOILER).

You would think, or at least I would, that after such a devastating attack Washington - and likely the rest of the country - would be put in lock down until the culprits are found. And that all the various paramilitary agencies of the government would concentrate their energy on finding those culprits. At least mobilize ATF, FBI, USMS, DEA, DOJ, and the ETC. Order them to work around the clock until they get the criminals. Doesn't happen. There are no Muslims hiding under the beds, so those powerful agencies can stand down and leave the job to a single agent and her not-ready-for-prime-time former boss.

This show could have been so much better if it had been given to writers capable of developing a fundamentally intriguing premise.

I honestly feel that I lose brain cells after watching the collapsing storyline on this series.

Along with the ongoing inconsistency of the transitional stock footage of DC area monuments between scenes (one is winter with snow on the ground, other cuts show a springtime scene with flowering bushes, then others show plush trees full of leaves from the summer), the writers are apparently now incapable of understanding basic Senate rules and procedure.

For non-budgetary reconciliation type bits of legislation, it requires 60 votes to pass a bill (not 51 as this idiotic show indicated on this episode.) Perhaps the evil Republicans changed the Senate rules before being blown up in the Pilot episode?! Regardless, this was a missed layup. Dear writers: it's obvious you are pushing your left-leaning guns are bad, GOP is evil, independents and democrats will save the day subliminal messaging through this series, yet at least get the facts right when trying to brainwash low-information viewers.

I can't wait to watch the rest of this season as it slowly morphed into an unwatchable dumbed- down version of The West Wing. Actually, that's probably giving it far too much credit...I anxiously await what clueless talking point will be beaten into the plot on the next episode. Who would have thought that this alleged 'drama' would in fact be a comedy?! Thanks for the ongoing amusement.

So let me get this straight. The Capital was blown up along with every single elected official and basically the entire government, we still have yet to uncover the whole truth behind that attack, and the first order of importance to the new congress is "gun control"? Really?

Yeah, because in a world where our government can be blown up imagining a civilian population that doesn't need to protect itself seems reasonable.

With much sympathy to the pandering woman who lost her child to "gun violence" in the show... Lady, our rights don't stop just because your spawn died. Our RIGHTS are bigger than one person, in fact hundreds of thousands have died to preserve those rights so, my sympathy for your fictitious victim has limitations.

If the writers had good writing and entertainment as their priority instead of pushing a political agenda and preaching to activists maybe this show could have gone the distance... BUT network TV is proving just how obsolete it really is.

Stop preaching. STOP!