User Reviews

Where is his son in this day? Guys, it's not possible..

and also, where are the other episodes of this season?

Not a perfect episode by any means, but it does allow the Tom Kirkman character and his Presidency to come full circle.

The stark contrast from Kirkman's political naïveté in Season 1 to the more complicated politician he's turned into by the end of a season 3 is in full display in the last few episodes of this season.

Sutherland gives a nuanced performance as Kirkman and his evolution through the life of the show.

Like other viewers, I found the change from series 2 to 3 to be jarring - bad language is only effective if used sparingly. I thought I wouldn't like the change of direction of the storyline but I stayed with it and I'm pleased that I did. The writers have used this as a platform to comment and reflect on issues of the day and they certainly need airing. I hope Netflix will reconsider their decision to cancel this show as there are plenty of ends to tie up and of course, it would be interesting to see how far President Kirkman compromises on his original tenet of transparency in office. He has already placed a toe on the slippery slope - how far would he go? We need to know!

Cast was good, acting was good, writing very ridiculous bordering on absurd.

Lorraine's character was great.

No surprises in the ending.

Overall, I enjoyed watching this episode, even though at times I was embarrassed by the blatant social indoctrination between the transgender poster child, the black gay lovers and the Latin VP having to be guided into acknowledging his heritage. And to what purpose? None of these sub-plots added to the excitement of the base story.

The basic premise of this fictional series has been the struggles of a politically Independent everyday American thrust into the position of President of the United States by a massive attack on our Capitol where all our politicians were, save for one, Tom Kirkman. In the run of the series, an undertone was developed that the American people were tired of the partisan politics practiced by both the Democrats and Republicans as to make it feasible for the Independent Kirkman to have a chance at winning a second term in office. This struck me as very topical for our current political reality as most Americans are tired of politicians being elected by the people and having allegiance to the Party rather that the people that voted them into office.

With the cancellation of the series, the viewers are left hanging as to what happens to Kirkman now that the cat's out of the bag about Lorraine's illegal moves. Will the VP and his estranged girl friend reconcile and have the baby? Will Emily ever recover from seeing Kirkman's hesitation to be honest about Moss's involvement with the bio-terrorist plot for his own personal political gain? I have many more questions with no possibility of getting answers!

The references to the pharmaceutical industry being partially responsible for the opioid crisis in the US was spot on. First they convince your doctor to prescribe their highly addictive drugs to you so they can make money off of you and then once you're hooked, they have another drug they'll sell you to get you weened off of the first drug. They get you coming and going in reality!

I loved season 1 and 2. But I think they ruined with season 3. I watched it but I didn't liked it. I just don't understand why did they have to use soo many bad words on the last season. Swearing doesn't make something good. It was bad. The whole last season. They killed my favourite caracter as well. And they ruined the main caracter profile. So bad. Sorry.

So, not only does Tom win easily as an independent which is just crazy, but they essentially wrap up his victory really early in the episode.

Where is the drama then? The script didn't make a lot of sense and neither did most of the episode that preceded it.

I liked this series in S1 and S2, enough to see it through. I even tried to like S3, and I did, I could keep going. The politics are unrealistic, the spy stuff is unrealistic, S2 had a set formular of a new crisis appearing and the president stopping it and never getting credit, many actors leaving - so this series is not short of problems.

Even then, I never could hate it, I liked it very much. The sole reason is that the President always did the right thing, and somehow got everyone to agree, even if not everyone was too happy.

Now, after having therapy for the whole episode, he decides to continue to let Moss be labelled a bio-terrorist. Moss isn't the best person, no doubt. But to leave an ending this wide open, just to make the series look cool? I am not sure how to feel about that. Maybe if there was another season, I would be ok with it since we could have seen kirkman's reaction to it. But not this, this wasn't close to satisfying a viewer who watched this instead of studying for his midterms.

This season Kirkman runs as an independent and calls himself a centrist. But all of his policies and views are clearly leftist. The only critique towards the Democrats was their candidate, none of their policies. He sure smeared the Republicans all the time though. Furthermore it was packed with "progressive" content. We had gays, transgenders, identity politics, only white bad guys etc.

This season showed that this series has become like any other. Without the designated survivor and conspiracy plot lines there is just nothing special about it. The season is also highly unrealistic. How could he as an independent candidate not only win the election but receive the absolute majority required. It was a three horse race remember? We barely heard from the Democratic candidate...