User Reviews

The show took a ripped from the headlines story regarding Confederate monuments and actually accurately portrayed both sides of the debate. Unfortunately, this is Hollywood and we could all predict which side they would take, but it was at least an entertaining subplot.

The Hannah stuff is just a mess at this point. It's not even clear what they are going for other than random violence to try to keep the viewers who tune in for that entertained.

Modern day topics such as the statues is brought up in this episode, as we invariably learn about the art of compromise.

What does the mother-in-law have to do with the recently killed man who had blown up the capitol? This issue shall have to be revisited much more in depth, but we already know that she did some shenanigans to get her husband moved up on the heart transplant list years before.

Kirkman's wife and children continue to be low-key this season. They hardly appear and one wonders what's in the future for them in the series?

There is a plague in the nation that's rapidly spreading and killing off people. We're seeing the greedy pharmaceutical companies, and for a change, Kirkman is able to put them down. We need this in real life as well.

I haven't written a review, but my disgust at this episode is so high that I felt compelled to write.

I found this show to be quite compelling at first. The premise of re-establishing our government in a time of crisis is very interesting, and I believe that the way Kirkman was received as a non-elected President might reflect what might happen in today's political climate.

Sadly, that premise is no longer relevant after the first season. Kirkman is now an experienced politician and has become skilled at political manipulation. He has also decided that the Constitution is no longer relevant.

It was bad enough last season when Kirkman jailed the governor of Michigan. He now employs extortion on a drug manufacturer in order to steal his supply of a drug to combat an outbreak. Seriously, if the manufacturer is concerned about his patent, couldn't they have worked something out to secure his rights instead?

Towards the end of this episode was a lost opportunity when one of his visitors tells him that the framers of the Constitution declared people like him to be 3/5 of a human - and this was not corrected. The clause he referred to was written as a compromise between slave states and the North. The slave states wanted to count slaves for purposes of representation in Congress without granting them the ability to vote. Had slaves been counted as whole the slave states would have had more control of Congress, and slavery would have endured much longer. A teachable moment lost to an effort to sustain contempt.

Unbelievable how Hollywood is so incredibly leftist in this episode. The president has to shakedown a pharmaceutical company because it needs the 10,000 vaccines it produced. They go to court, slander the company's name, utterly destroy its reputation - and the viewer is to believe this is all corporate greediness that's at the root of the problem. Yet following the numbers of the show itself, a vaccin would cost $2000. So are we to believe that a company is to invest $1 billion, give up its patents, because the government is unwilling to pay $20 million to - to use the President's words - save the country from a litteral Doomsday? $20 million is too expensive to save millions of people from excruciating death? The simplified logic behind it all is maddening, and it unnecessarily hardens the American people's believe about big corporates.

Kirkman and Mike lamenting about the condition of black race relations omg. We had a black freakin president! The statue issue, the evil capitalist system, the big bad pharmacy company, this episode had all the left wing propaganda boxes checked. The Hannah investigation is a complete mess. Time to drop this show.