Designated Survivor
 

Keifer Sutherland's next TV series

On the night of the State of the Union address, an explosion claims the lives of the President of the United States and all present members of the Cabinet. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Tom Kirkman, who was named the designated survivor, is immediately sworn in and struggles to prevent America from falling into chaos, unaware that the attack is only the beginning of what is to come.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design...28TV_series%29


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Looks like it could be good.

Watched it tonight, thought it got off to a slow start with the focus on his family instead of terrorism and him being the President.

Has some good possibilities.

Kinda what I thought also just to much focus on technical stuff triyg to be accurate to a T. I think once it settles in and gets on to the plot it will get better I hope.

But could you imagine being put into that spot we kind of see how Harry Truman felt after be left in the dark and left out of meetings with FDR. Sutherland puking his guts out in the toilet must have been what old Harry did also.

Yeah, I think the showing the family thing, getting fired was to show us this isn't tough as nails Jack Bauer. He's conflicted and flawed, not perfect.

Might make good TV how this type of person is thrown into such a powerful position. They will certainty be able to weave current events into the storylines.

I thought it was fantastic and not slow at all. The puking thing was a great touch but he quickly turned "Jack Bauer" in the meeting with the Iranian diplomat.

It "feels" like 24 to me, with obviously Keifer, Sean Callery (composer), etc. but I welcome it because I absolutely loved "24", save for the last full season. I enjoyed the shortened season.

They got me at the end, too. "Dammit! It's over?!!".

24 is one of my all time favorite shows even including those suck ass year at the end. I did like the shortened season too.

I agree the end and the previews look a little Jack Bauerish for sure.

I liked that episode much better. Tighter script and story line. Keifer is going to kill it in this role.

Twenty-five DAMMIT

season 2, episode 12, i am done with this show. tired of wasting my time on this nonsense. :cuss:

What happened that upsets you? I'm watched every episode because my wife loves the show. Seemed to be a standard show.

I loved 24. Still think its one of the best TV shows of all time.

the most recent episode has to be the dumbest of the bunch. absolutely terrible acting. i've been on the fence for a bit, but last night was too much. i will wait to hear back from others, but man it was bad. :D

I have last night's episode on the DVR still. Hell, the Cuba episode the week before was dumber than a GEICO commercial - it's only saving grace was that the idiot ass wife was actually dead. If this next one is even worse, that will probably be it for me as well.

This was fairly interesting in the beginning. Now it's just mindless tripe.

Yeah, when he was chasing down those who attacked America, putting it back together, Keifer was at his best.

Now, it’s about politics, passing some bill. Personal drama issues with the staff etc. it’s lost it’s way and is off the tracks.

To be honest, I expected this to be a one or two season show tops. The entire premise is gone after that because it just becomes another political drama.

Basically the “For Dummies” version of West Wing.

Thats why Homeland still works. They find new really bad guys to go after. Looks like this year its the Russians.

But this show, boring political intrigue. Surely someone is telling them this? Why should we care about some new guy on the show got 2nd place in band camp in his youth??? Trying to throw in in some "This is us"? Really?!!??? WTF, blown chance. :shake:

Made it halfway through the first episode. Thats it.

Had all of this season recorded, after reading this I deleted it. Thanks for saving me 12 hours of my life.

some of us took one for the team, but in the end, we saved lives :thumb:

I loved this show, this thread has been disappointing to read. =(

I don't know if I can bother to continue.

Keifer deserves better material. I hate ‘play it safe’ network TV. Get Keifer a cable tv series next.

yeah, he’d be much better on cable.

at this point, i would say the series 'touch' was better than this shit :D