I just started watching Designated Survivor and all I can say is DAMN

[LiberalArkie]

It almost seems like we are in those times.

[Dream Girl]

1. Was that Keizer Sullivan? It sounded interning when it came out. Where is it steaming?

[MissB]

3. Keifer Sutherland?

(Autocorrect?)

It’s been on Netflix for a bit.

[a kennedy]

7. Is this a new series? Because I remember watching it on ABC awhile back.

Really enjoyed it back then.

[MissB]

14. No

Definitely not new

[LiberalArkie]

4. It is an older series on Netflix

Yes... from 2016. Could have been this year

[3catwoman3]

2. We were instant fans.

I wish it had had more seasons. Well written and well acted.

[LiberalArkie]

5. And very prophetic

[3catwoman3]

8. I couldn't help but indulge in a little wishful...

...thinking about an IRL occurrence while Donnie Dipshit was still occupying the WH, although a little more targeted, taking out only him, his cabinet and all the Republicans, and sparing the Democrats.

[LiberalArkie]

16. Like this?

[Hortensis]

6. We saw the first season. Of course Biden's first SOTU caused it to

leap to mind. They can't announce the date, and I hope most will attend from their homes. Or at least large numbers.

[LiberalArkie]

10. If I was Biden, I think I would host it from the bunker

[treestar]

9. I did think about that

after the 1/6 incidents.

There is still some worry about the SOTU?

The show had the theme that the ordinary Sec. of the Treasury made an especially honest president - the old "ordinary people are the real heroes" thing.

And wasn't it the Senate majority leader who had started the coup? Interesting indeed!

[csziggy]

18. I thought Sutherland's character was Secretary of HUD?

Yep:

Kiefer Sutherland stars as Thomas Kirkman, an American academic named as the designated survivor for the State of the Union address, who suddenly ascends from the position of U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to President of the United States after an explosion kills everyone ahead of him in the presidential line of succession. Kirkman deals with his inexperience as head of state while looking to uncover the truth behind the attack.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designated_Survivor_(TV_series)

[treestar]

19. Oh I remembered wrong then

HUD is even more mundane!

[csziggy]

20. And the President was about to fire him!

Makes a good plot to set him up to be expected to fail.

[zeusdogmom]

11. The first 2 seasons were network TV productions

3rd season was a Netflix original - it was a little edgier. I thought the whole series was well done. And after the Jan. 6 nonsense, the series premises not so far fetched.

[BannonsLiver]

12. Network TV dreck

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. I watched the first couple of episodes

and couldn't get past the obvious plot flaws. They moved him and his family into the White House the very next day?

[Midnight Writer]

15. I'll watch anything with Maggie Q. I'd tune in to watch her read the phone book.

[beaglelover]

17. The series goes off the rails after the first season. We stopped watching it.