Designated Survivor

Two reasons, one story telling, one practical.

First, that kind of President has never really been done before on TV (probably because it's only rarely been done in real life). So its new ground for story telling.

Secondly, the person was leaving to do a new show on another network.

What, you mean a president whose wife has been assassinated?

The best thing about Kirkman is his subtlety, compassion, and intelligence. He rarely looks good when he loses his cool. I don't like Angry!Kirkman. Though I love how he schooled Not!Erdogan.

Well, single in general, for whatever reason. The last such real President was Wilson, nearly a century ago.

It's nearly as rare in fiction as well.

Restarting this thread because I've been watching this recently and I have some things to say but I have this to share:

We might get a third season. Not with ABC though.

Now, some stuff I've as I just finished the second season:

On Patrick Llyod being based on Donald Trump, I didn't hear anything to be commentary on Trump. Maybe the narcisism but Llyod being a former soldier, special forces even, who goes into defense contracting, points him more at Erik Prince.

As for the story arc that ended with Alex's death, anyone get the feeling that was a commentary on the FBI when James Comey was its director given the way he was going after Alex?

A double-post resurrection to which I apologize for: a trailer for Season 3 courtesy of Netflix's Youtube page:

After having two lives on ABC and Netflix, Survivor's been canceled.

A big letdown when I heard about it. Though in fairness, once Hannah bit it, what else could have been explored once Kirkman won another term yet by incredibly dishonest means by his campaign manager?

Did they at least solve the main issue, mainly the conspiracy that wiped out the government?!

The people who had the Capital building bombed were a shadowy cabal consisting of former military and a few politicians led by a Corrupt Corporate Executive named Patrick Lloyd who wanted to rebuild the US in their image because they saw the government as ineffectual and planned to use Kirkman as a puppet. Didn't take and the only one to escape was Lloyd. Kirkman, who read the copy of the manifesto written by Lloyd and saw that Lloyd's grudge with the US government was because he was prevented from seeing his son and tried to reason with Lloyd, only for him to keep fighting, which doomed him in the end.

Edited by HallowHawk on Sep 6th 2019 at 12:09:44 AM