Watching what?
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
The reviews certainly make it sound silly enough to be amusing. Is it going to tank, you think?
Why would you enjoy seeing Republicans portrayed as being evil?
I'm not watching. And won't be watching.
Watching what? I'm watching baseball. Why watch 1 ballbuster when I can watch 18 at the same time.
Life's too short to squander on crapola like this. But hey, I guess we've all got guilty pleasures. Last year I watched the Apprentice every week. Completely dumb show, but Trump just cracks me up. This year, my wife's still watching. If I'm around, I'll come sit down for the boardroom scenes. I can spare 10 minutes I suppose. But I don't watch dramas or sitcoms. I don't even read fiction. Seems like a waste of time. Life itself is interesting enough for me.
I like the quote that this show is a conservative's equivalent to "Reefer Madness"; when I was in college, all the liberals flocked to RM to yuck it up over the film's alarmist and presumably false views on the dangers of marijuana. Of course, within a few years more than a few of the ex-yuckers did indeed find themselves in deep trouble because of drug abuse. As for me, I never saw "Reefer Madness," and will probably never see "Commander In Chief."
I don't watch network TV and even if I did I would not watch this show since it would only irritate me. I consider it a network propaganda piece designed to condition the American people towards the acceptance of Hillary Clinton as president --YECH!
I have a standing root canal appointment with my dentist in that time slot. It's more fun than watching this show.
According to Drudge the shows creator was fired by the Producer for insisting on a rough sex scene in the back of the President's limo with a SS agent.
I heard an interview of his a few days ago where he was tearing up pontificating on the profound betrayal, corruption and danger of conservatives. All I need, another reason to not watch a show paving way for Hillary.
Haven't seen it and don't plan to.
Donald Sutherland is no Jack Bauer.
Sorry, but the whole premise of the show is stupid on so many counts it is hard to list them, but I will try to list a few:
1. A somewhat misogynistic GOP presidential candidate picks a "moderate" (read liberal) woman as his running-mate because he needed to pick up the women's vote, and this actually results in his winning the presidency, but he doesn't want her to succeed him in the office because they have significant policy differences. This is ridiculous for several reasons, but mostly because the only way a republican candidate wins with a woman as his running mate is if she is a solidly conservative woman, like a Condi Rice, in which case there is no reason to pressure her to step aside.
2. The ailing president tries to convince his VP to resign, which would allow him to appoint a new VP (that the democrats in the senate would certainly block from confirmation). In the absence of a VP, the president pro tem of the Senate is next in line of succession. If a GOP President felt he were about to be incapable of discharging his duties as President, would he try to convince his VP to resign thereby creating a series of vacancies that would put the appointment of his replacement into the hands of the senate where Teddy and Chucky could wreak all kinds of havoc? I think not.
3. The evil conservative Speaker of the House seems to see this as a power play opportunity to move one step closer in the line of succession, but since he comes AFTER the VP, AND THEN AFTER the president pro tem of the senate, he is not going to ascend to the presidency via the line of succession, so the whole nature of this character depends on the Speaker of the House being ignorant of the rules of succession, or at least the ignorance of the audience (but then again with Hollywood that is a given).
4. Geena Davis does NOT carry this role at all. She is simply not believable.
In the one plot synopsis I read, President Lady positions the US armed forces to threaten attack on some African nation because they're about to put a woman, one of their own citizens, to death for adultery. This is such a gross, personalized, feminine, silly soap-opera misunderstanding of the appropriate use of military force, that Hillary's minions should be calling them up and begging the program to cease and desist.
Oh, yeah...and apparently she comes to power because she was an affirmative action VP pick and, when the president dies unexpectedly, they expect her to step aside and not take the reins because...well, she's a girl 'n' stuff.
It sounds like a comic book. A bad comic book. Let 'er rip, I say.
Sometimes I tune in early to see Boston Legal.
It's sound ghastly, in a fun way. It's done well in it's first two weeks, but that might just be the curiousity factor.
The creator of the show, Rod Laurie, just got fired. They cited "logistical setbacks", whatever the hell that means. Pretty big news in Hollywood. Very odd to fire a guy with a "hit" show.
I should check it out. I'm the type who watches really bad movies on the Spanish station, even though I have no idea what they're talking about. I love really bad acting.