Biggest disappointment ever. I gave it a few episodes hoping it would get better, but the political correctness got worse and worse. Our government is de-capitated, our very existence as a functioning society is in jeopardy, and the new president’s main goal is to punish islamophobia. Even the new ‘24’ is better than this lefy propaganda.
All TV and movies are created in order to promote an agenda, and not to entertain. The entertainment aspect serves to put the audience into a state of minimized judgement, so that it more easily accepts the true purpose of the show, the leftist message.
Last two episodes have lurched considerably left with the anti-Second Amendment agenda. Thought Imwas watching an ad from the Brady Campaign or Bloomberg.
I TiVo the episodes.
Found myself fast-forwarding through the anti-gun program of 2 weeks ago.
Found myself deleting the series from my queue list after 3 minutes of more anti-gun in the latest episode.
1. As soon as any Republican is elected President at least on of the major networks will create a series with a fictionalized Democrat Leftist to serve as an imaginary shadow President.
2. This Shadow President will be more wise, kind, non-partisan, thoughtful and well spoken than any President. The Shadow President will implement every policy that Libs dream of, while lecturing the nation from a position of absolute political morality. 2 B. Funny, we never have a Reagan-like Conservative to contrast with the feckless real-life President during Democratic administrations. LOL.
3. During the W.Bush Presidency we had West Wing with Michael Dougals as the Wise-Philosopher President. We also had "Madamn Secretary", which was an attempt to show us what an idealized Hillary figure was accomplishing - clearly we were supposed to believe Hillary was equally pure and effective and not the drooling criminal we actually witnessed.
4. Survivor did start out with a very interesting premise and a lot of good action in the movie. If they stuck to the part of the plot lines involving the FBI / Terrorists / Sabatoge it might be a pretty good series. However even some parts of that storyline have jumped the shark: the mini-conclusion to the drama around the VP was quite unsatisfying and beyond belief, even for a hypothetical Washington in crisis.
5. But they didin't. They can't help themselves. They went totally off the deep end with Episode #15 (I think) where the entire hour is pretty much devoted to an effort by the POTUS and his wife to pass more Gun Control. The innocuous sounding "Universal Background Checks". President Keifer Sutherland and his (increasingly insufferable wife) are given ample opportunities to lecture us about the need for guns. Gun control opponents are portrayed as Red State Buffoons, scheming to hold on to seats without any real or legitimate concern with more Federal Gun control.
In summary it was truly horrible, like the worst episode of West Wing in it's preacher-presidential harangues of all things Conservative.
A huge disappointment, but not completely unexpected. I won't be tuning in for Season 2.
It quickly descended into an absurdly fictionalized portrayal of American Islamophobia, and I tuned out
Designated Survivor ratings for the last 3 episodes:
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
1.1/4 ratings/share with 5.15 million viewers in the 18-49 group
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
1.1/4 ratings/share with 5.20 million viewers in the 18-49 group
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
0.9/3 ratings/share with 4.82 million viewers in the 18-49 group
source: http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/category/daily-ratings/
Reminds me of the 1970s and 1980s when every TV program had the “hero” mouthing anti gun platitudes.
The West Wing with an implausible backstory...
I assume everything on TV these days is nothing but liberal mush.
Now you know why I watch KDramas.
I’m not convinced it’s actually that interesting a premise. At least not for an entire series of TV, there’s just not 22 hours worth of story in “Bob flunky becomes president”.
-PJ
They went from promising to just whoring of liberal agendas.
I stopped watching with the first hint of gun control propaganda.
More of the same from those whose life’s work is manipulation of the minds of the witless consumers of their whimsical, fanciful “products”...I humbly suggest clueless they are not, but know full well what they’re doing...
Yet so many continue to watch in the vain hope of something different?
Nothing different will likely emerge in the forseable future because it is the nature and purpose of Hollywood to distribute disinformation disguised (not very well) as entertainment...
Nothing new here...
“This thing, what is it in itself, in its own constitution? What is its substance and material? And what is its causal nature [or form]? And what is it doing in the world?...” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
After the last two episodes I am now rooting for the terrorists.