Designated Survivor - Season 2

Designated Survivor started out like this: the HUD Secretary was about to be fired. Before that firing actually took…

The world is full of stories that have already been told. It’s nearly impossible, in fact, to avoid all tropes and…

For its mid-season finale, Designated Survivor makes a bold choice: to spin its wheels a bit while it patiently…

Nearly every week in these reviews, I call out whichever episode of The West Wing feels oddly similar to Designated…

This review covers two episodes of Designated Survivor: “Family Ties,” which aired on 11/15, as well as “Home,”…

To say that Designated Survivor still doesn’t know what kind of show it wants to be would be inaccurate. It wants to…

It is not enough to decide that a character, speech, episode, or television series is inspirational. To be…

“Equilibrium” isn’t a great hour of television. It bumbles around between its several subplots, often pivoting…

“Outbreak” is not all that thoughtful. “Outbreak” is not particularly exciting, or funny, or daring, or or sexy. As…

Let’s try something here. Please bear with me. This is what happens in “Sting Of The Tail,” the second episode of…

It’s been one year since Tom Kirkman became President. In that time, he’s survived an assassination attempt, passed…