Seriously this is how you want us to believe that this is the CIA. Or maybe it is the Central Idiotic Agency.
I have never watched anything remotely as bad as this when any intelligence agency was involved. Maxwell Smart (Get Smart)had more going on upstairs than these agents and staff.
I will be happy when the first woman of any colour is elected as president. But we are no where near this happening, let alone a black female president. I am not racist, I am being a realist. Obama, the first black man elected as president didn't happen until 2008. If Oprah was running though I might see this before I die.
The opening scene was amazing. After that it went downhill very quickly. While I realize this is a television drama, I would have liked to see something believable regarding the CIA.
The Director (Skinner) allowed an unsearched Syrian Intelligence Chief into the CIA's building and into the intelligence office when just recently he was arrested for bringing a cellphone to the French Intelligence offices. Charlie (Heigl) phones an older man walking a dog that shows up to stop the vehicle carrying Skinner and Khan(Syrian Intelligence Chief) on their way to meet the president. The dog walker states that he is the Secret Service and quickly removes Khan from the vehicle. Then informs him how he will remove the cellphone from his body(okay this was almost a believable CIA tactic) when he has a light bulb moment and removes Khan's hat to find the cellphone inside. By the by, he is not really Secret Service, he is just an old man walking a dog.
The president(mommy dearest) and Charlie (Heigl) the almost daughter-in-law seek revenge for the death of her fiancé, who just happened to be the presidents son. He was murdered by Fatah, a terrorist who attacked a diplomatic convoy in which Charlie and her fiancé were travelling in. He died, she didn't.
Really, this is what you want us to believe??? There isn't enough drugs or alcohol on earth that could make me believe this.
OK, I gave the show one more try. But found the 2nd episode worse than the first. Charlie requests that the CIA asset of more than 30 years, destroy the submarine along with 6 months of top USA secrets. Then she lies to him about a previous meeting her and her father and the asset and his daughter in a park. Remembering that her father said to her that the asset was a hero. What if there had never been a meeting with her father? She just compromised the mission. All the while she is making this request tears are rolling down her cheek. But as soon as she knew he would complete it she walks slowly out of the room. Doesn't even have the decency to stay with him so he doesn't die alone. I'm sorry I just can't swallow a CIA agent tearing up, especially that she had never worked with this man. It is just horrible cliché after horrible cliché.
I have never watched anything remotely as bad as this when any intelligence agency was involved. Maxwell Smart (Get Smart)had more going on upstairs than these agents and staff.
I will be happy when the first woman of any colour is elected as president. But we are no where near this happening, let alone a black female president. I am not racist, I am being a realist. Obama, the first black man elected as president didn't happen until 2008. If Oprah was running though I might see this before I die.
The opening scene was amazing. After that it went downhill very quickly. While I realize this is a television drama, I would have liked to see something believable regarding the CIA.
The Director (Skinner) allowed an unsearched Syrian Intelligence Chief into the CIA's building and into the intelligence office when just recently he was arrested for bringing a cellphone to the French Intelligence offices. Charlie (Heigl) phones an older man walking a dog that shows up to stop the vehicle carrying Skinner and Khan(Syrian Intelligence Chief) on their way to meet the president. The dog walker states that he is the Secret Service and quickly removes Khan from the vehicle. Then informs him how he will remove the cellphone from his body(okay this was almost a believable CIA tactic) when he has a light bulb moment and removes Khan's hat to find the cellphone inside. By the by, he is not really Secret Service, he is just an old man walking a dog.
The president(mommy dearest) and Charlie (Heigl) the almost daughter-in-law seek revenge for the death of her fiancé, who just happened to be the presidents son. He was murdered by Fatah, a terrorist who attacked a diplomatic convoy in which Charlie and her fiancé were travelling in. He died, she didn't.
Really, this is what you want us to believe??? There isn't enough drugs or alcohol on earth that could make me believe this.
OK, I gave the show one more try. But found the 2nd episode worse than the first. Charlie requests that the CIA asset of more than 30 years, destroy the submarine along with 6 months of top USA secrets. Then she lies to him about a previous meeting her and her father and the asset and his daughter in a park. Remembering that her father said to her that the asset was a hero. What if there had never been a meeting with her father? She just compromised the mission. All the while she is making this request tears are rolling down her cheek. But as soon as she knew he would complete it she walks slowly out of the room. Doesn't even have the decency to stay with him so he doesn't die alone. I'm sorry I just can't swallow a CIA agent tearing up, especially that she had never worked with this man. It is just horrible cliché after horrible cliché.