User Reviews

Edge of your seat and one of the more entertaining episodes of the series but pretty ridiculous suspension of disbelief. As others have stated:

-Small infantry unit at the outpost are portrayed as completely undisciplined and unskilled amateurs.

-President would NEVER, NEVER travel in just 2 unescorted Blackhawks without drones, Apache's, large Special Forces quick reaction force nearby,...ect. A scenario the writers should know is an impossible bridge to far.

-Apache's or a C-130, just like the drone they're getting footage from could and would give those trapped air support. It would be danger close fire but they would easily pick off the enemy fighters. Just watch the dozens of YouTube videos of Apache's engaging with their FLIR optics. (Bad guys can't hide, even in tree line).

-The Vice President being so weak and indecisive was a little much. Come on. No one that makes it to that position is that ill prepared and shakey. All common sense stuff.

The last few episodes left me hurt seeing Special Forces soldiers behaving like high school kids and seeing Spec fours soldiers in their ranks when the minimum rank is Sergeant.

This episode pushed me over the edge within the first 10 minutes seeing the President in a war zone, at a critical forward base that also is there for intelligence collection somehow travelling with just a small unit of security and no additional security forces and no quick reaction force and no added back within a Taliban controlled area.

Then when something does happen the QRF is over an hour away?

I know I should just take it as it is but is this part of their plan to take a show that was semi-realistic and get folks so pissed that they will stop watching it?

That is my two cents. Just my personal impression that I had to vent.

Definitely an exciting episode. Did they trade substance and story for nonsensical violence? A bit, but the way this season has gone we needed that break for sure. One we'll remember with a cliffhanger that will keep us counting the days until the next episode.

Just wanted to add that if it's a choice of bomb the site destroying the president's body, why can't they retreat and take his body with them ? Looks like they want the evidence destroyed . Plus the vice president isn't even sworn in yet ! Otherwise an exciting episode with whodunnit overtures .

Did I just not notice it before? This season it has completely abandoned plausibility and gone full-blown fantasy.

Do you know why we've never had a US president die anything remotely like this? Because the US does not put its presidents in such insane, absurd, mindbogglingly dangerous situations. Flying a president into an active terrorist warzone is bad enough by itself; that alone pushes the boundary of plausible fiction. But then to put the president on something as fragile as a helicopter is completely unthinkable. And then to have only ONE other helicopter for protection, with no other air cover, and THEN that helicopter isn't even watching the president's helicopter. And this is right after a LIVE worldwide broadcast, that anyone could've watched and easily identified the base the president was at. I mean, my gosh, how on earth do you turn off your brain enough to find ANY of that believable??

And that's just the start of it. This show has become unwatchable. I find it impossible to care about any of the characters any more, as all of it has become one big joke.

You can be a little bit unrealistic as you're a show on television. But stop. You're so spot on with different perspectives of politics and terrorism, only to be so off with our military strategies and tactics.... there is NO way anyone could shoot down the presidents plane... secondly, if there was, there is no way in hell that there wouldn't be endless personnel all over the site.

You're making our military look very bad. Please stop.

The way our soldiers, the army, the Rangers are presented here, is disgusting! People gave their lives on the battlefield to be portrayed like this? Shame on you!!! We are talking the President here. Everyone of us would give everything to protect the Commander in Chief. QRF ONE HOUR!!! Away? Disintegrate the body of our Commander with still one man standing? Those Taliban half out in the open like on a shooting range? The guys have no grenades at hand? Rangers? Not one good shot? No machine gun in the whole squad when they clearly had one before in the river bed? No attempt at flanking the Taliban? They all huddle in the line of fire? Coming out of cover while reloading? Not using the Helicopter as cover or the weapons onboard the Heli? A Hollywood disgrace-once again. Our folks deserve better! All I am saying.

And I can't stand Danes anymore. She is so far out of her league, acting-wise, and no-one like her would even come close to a position similar to the one she has in this series. NEVER! Lives depend on her silly emotions. No way! And always the same expression, the one face of crazy (she seems to only have one technique for her eyes and eyebrows!) and a quivering chin. But that's ok, I keep jumping over it, but the soldiers - that's not fair.