TrollfaceDeux
Pronouns: zie/zhem/zer
- 19,577
- 3,743
Designated Survivor
- Thread starter faille
- Start date
Lanx
<Prior Amod>
- 69,935
- 162,960
Sure, but i see horrible "family issues" start to creep up, in fact, lets just say everybody except 24 guy really, really, sux. MaggieQ looks good enough, but her General Tsao got no spice.
Also, if you've watched Mr. Robot, you can't ever, ever, EVER go back to watching fake TV, hacking shit, like finding redtube for the first time, then going back to playboy.
Everything is just so Troupey, in a bad way.
I'll be checking it out for a bit, pressing FF, but i'm not going to sit through an entire eps.
- 2
Bondurant
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
- 3,893
- 4,839
This TV show wouldn't have been bad if it was all about "The West Wing : Jack Bauer". Alas, awful writing (muh wisconsin), stand-in generic acting (muh republican general) and bad production (muh heroic presidency) bring the show to the abyss of television.
- 21,169
- 80,919
Crone
Bronze Baronet of the Realm
- 9,714
- 3,211
Just binge watched all episodes in the Season so far last night and I'm really digging it. The first couple episodes really hit out the park I think with Keifer's role, and him being all bad ass. That has tailed off quite a bit, and so I'm not as excited about it, but will still continue to watch.
sakkath
Trakanon Raider
- 1,885
- 1,177
Well I forced myself to watch the whole season. I really wanted to like it but it's too preposterous. Every character is a moron, nobody trusts anybody and it's like the "good guys" are intentionally making it easier for the "bad guys" by not communicating with each-other at all. It's got classic x-files style mystery - every time you think you learned something, nope, just more questions. The cliffhanger finale was tailor made to piss everyone off. Don't watch.
- 332
- 437
Yeah it was pretty obnoxious when she pulled out her pho-
With a SYNC® Connect-equipped vehicle, you can use FordPass™ to track your vehicle’s location and
remotely access vehicle features such as start, lock and unlock and vehicle status including fuel level
and approximate mileage. You can also schedule specific times to remotely start your vehicle so it’s
ready to hit the road as soon as you are.
Shit, it's contagious.
Sidenote - Is it just me or does Kal Penn sound like Castle? I'm half watching eps while doing other shit and keep getting caught out thinking it's a Nathan Fillion guest spot.
With a SYNC® Connect-equipped vehicle, you can use FordPass™ to track your vehicle’s location and
remotely access vehicle features such as start, lock and unlock and vehicle status including fuel level
and approximate mileage. You can also schedule specific times to remotely start your vehicle so it’s
ready to hit the road as soon as you are.
Shit, it's contagious.
Sidenote - Is it just me or does Kal Penn sound like Castle? I'm half watching eps while doing other shit and keep getting caught out thinking it's a Nathan Fillion guest spot.
Conefed
Blackwing Lair Raider
- 2,850
- 1,702
Glad to hear this show turned to shit. It ate up my good rest last night after episode 1 turned into a binge for me. There is much good to be had but enough bad to cause for worry. And a thing I hate hate hate in movies/shows/etc is secrecy for the sake of keeping the dramaplot going. Like FBI folk should have spilled beans first chance they had. Lady FBI should have spoke up to Almeida when he brought her him about Bill Harken confessing. I yelled at TV when that happened.
It's filled with bad creative practices that I feared would take over and the more I watched, the more ready I was to abandon ship.
It's filled with bad creative practices that I feared would take over and the more I watched, the more ready I was to abandon ship.
Denamian
Night Janitor
- 7,715
- 21,453
Title: Designated Survivor
Genre: Drama, War & Politics
Creator: David Guggenheim
Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Maggie Q, Kal Penn, Adan Canto, Italia Ricci
First aired: 2016-09-21
Overview: Tom Kirkman, a low-level cabinet member is suddenly appointed President of the United States after a catastrophic attack during the State of the Union kills everyone above him in the Presidential line of succession.
- 1
Gravel
Mr. Poopybutthole
- 42,746
- 148,726
I expected this thread to be larger based on how long this show has been on (3 seasons?).
Glad most people didn't like it, cause I thought maybe it was just me.
Seems like the show just wanted to be a generic network TV Washington DC centered drama, but with a neat episode 1 premise. But once you get past the first episode, it's just a bullshit political drama.
The entire FBI plotline is garbo. Everything else is almost passable but just not intriguing enough. Because once you get past the shock of the first episode there's nothing left. It's almost like LOST with a super cool pilot and then meanders a bunch (but LOST was fun because of all the mysteries; which in retrospect were also bullshit).
Only made it through 4 episodes but I think I'm calling it.
Glad most people didn't like it, cause I thought maybe it was just me.
Seems like the show just wanted to be a generic network TV Washington DC centered drama, but with a neat episode 1 premise. But once you get past the first episode, it's just a bullshit political drama.
The entire FBI plotline is garbo. Everything else is almost passable but just not intriguing enough. Because once you get past the shock of the first episode there's nothing left. It's almost like LOST with a super cool pilot and then meanders a bunch (but LOST was fun because of all the mysteries; which in retrospect were also bullshit).
Only made it through 4 episodes but I think I'm calling it.
- 1
Intrinsic
Person of Whiteness
- 15,870
- 14,791
This is terrible. I slowly wound my way through season 1 and 2 as background noise because my mom was watching it and to have something to text her about. It isn’t good at all. If it had stuck to just being one thing maybe it would have worked as just a budget and worse West Wing or just a ridiculous spy show, the combination of the two turns an already bad show badder.
The politics portion is nauseatingly pompous and pandering. West Wing (the Sorkin Cocaine years) could get away with it because the writing was great, acting, directing, and had some ambivalence (not much in retrospect). Kiefer is great but every episode is like white man’s burden trying to help some minority and acting holier than thou, with some of the worst monologues. There was one episode where he was talking about an Architects first duty or some shit? Ugh.
Then the FBI Maggie Q side plots which might as well have been a totally different TV show altogether with super hacking, missions around the world LARPing as special forces, just plain absurdity. They did manage to put her in extremely tight tops and jeans for most of two seasons, so that was appreciated.
I mean, if it was all just cheese and dumb that’s one thing and there’s a place for it. The biggest issue it suffered from was needing the standard 22 episodes for TV. All the above would have been tolerable at 10 episodes as garbo TV time waster, spread out just makes it near intolerable.
And then it moves it Netflix and holy shit it goes turbo stupid. Write off half the cast with zero on screen explanation. First episode introduces the young gay black tech nerd. Have to introduce cussing every other word. And they took the West Wing pedaconference to 11. Not even sure I can bother finishing these last 10 or whatever episodes. Can’t wait til my Mom gets to these. She won’t know what happened. She just wants to see Kiefer do Jack Bauer things.
The politics portion is nauseatingly pompous and pandering. West Wing (the Sorkin Cocaine years) could get away with it because the writing was great, acting, directing, and had some ambivalence (not much in retrospect). Kiefer is great but every episode is like white man’s burden trying to help some minority and acting holier than thou, with some of the worst monologues. There was one episode where he was talking about an Architects first duty or some shit? Ugh.
Then the FBI Maggie Q side plots which might as well have been a totally different TV show altogether with super hacking, missions around the world LARPing as special forces, just plain absurdity. They did manage to put her in extremely tight tops and jeans for most of two seasons, so that was appreciated.
I mean, if it was all just cheese and dumb that’s one thing and there’s a place for it. The biggest issue it suffered from was needing the standard 22 episodes for TV. All the above would have been tolerable at 10 episodes as garbo TV time waster, spread out just makes it near intolerable.
And then it moves it Netflix and holy shit it goes turbo stupid. Write off half the cast with zero on screen explanation. First episode introduces the young gay black tech nerd. Have to introduce cussing every other word. And they took the West Wing pedaconference to 11. Not even sure I can bother finishing these last 10 or whatever episodes. Can’t wait til my Mom gets to these. She won’t know what happened. She just wants to see Kiefer do Jack Bauer things.