There are two big problems with Designated Survivor right now, or at least two big ones – the smaller ones are just too numerous to count and I just don’t have the time or inclination to list them. Let’s focus…
‘Designated Survivor’ 2×14 Review: If You Don’t Care, Then I Don’t Care
I have to write this review, and I really don’t know what to say about what happened. Because, what happened? I mean – things, happened, obviously, but nothing actually happened. Nothing ever happens in this show anymore. Nothing at all.…
‘Designated Survivor’ 2×12 Review: The Final Frontier
I’ll be the first to say I love Tom Kirkman. And that’s true, I love Tom Kirkman. He’s a kind, decent man who I think everyone who’s ever watched an episode of Designated Survivor would rather have in the White…
‘Designated Survivor’ 2×11 Review: Grief
Some people dismiss ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ as teenage crap, but I can tell you, as someone who’s a little removed from her teenage years at this point, and as someone who has experienced loss, that the book, to…
‘Designated Survivor’ 2×13 Review: This Should All be Really Sad
…if we, you know, cared? Harsh, I know, but had to be said. Designated Survivor’s winter finale ended with a not-so-shocking (if you’d heard the news of Natascha McElhone’s departure) death that feels way less emotional and anticlimactic than it…
‘Designated Survivor’ 2X09 Review: Three Wishes
On the first day of Christmas ….oh, wait, no. Wrong show. Right season, though, and right tone for this entirely feel-good episode of Designated Survivor. This, of course, probably means we’re in for a hard time next week, in the…
‘Designated Survivor’ 2×08 Review: Bravery or Stupidity?
You know when you’re watching a TV show and you catch yourself thinking, yeah, this sort of thing ONLY happens on TV? That was me at several points during this otherwise enjoyable episode of Designated Survivor. Because really, Mr. President,…
‘Designated Survivor’ 2×06 Review: Human Connections
For weeks, there has been something missing with Designated Survivor. The show hasn’t been bad, not even close to bad, and the level of emotion Tom Kirkman routinely manages to elict in me, in us, is about as high as…
‘Designated Survivor’ 2×05 Review: Pay it Forward
Sometimes I think that maybe, in another Earth (Earth 19, or something, help me out here The Flash), one where Hillary Clinton is President of the United States, I could watch a show like Designated Survivor with a TV reviewer…
‘Designated Survivor’ 2×04 Review: Who We Are
Remember when this show was about abstract politics and idealism and not about who we are as people? Yeah, I don’t either. After a season of conceptual problems, a season mostly planned in a world where Donald Trump was not…
