wukkar posted:So does football keep pushing back 60 minutes which pushes back this which screws up my DVR? I keep having to watch the last half of this on cbs.com. Yes, expect that to continue until football season is over.
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Comms girl: "Water is burning, Madam Secretary, and your name is linked to it. The optics of this couldn't be worse." MSec: "Optics? Seriously?" Comms girl: "I'm sorry. It's my job to tell you that." This one exchange illustrates why this show is the poor man's West Wing.
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Nov 4, 2014 11:11
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The only way this works is if he's working for the NSA AND having an affair.
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Nov 4, 2014 15:53
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Wow, this awkward banter/romantic tension between curly hair guy and soon to be married woman is truly awful. And the moronic NSA plot continues, despite that fact that it would completely destroy the credibility of the Secretary and really gently caress up America's diplomatic everything. The fact that they do a "dramatic nighttime raid" and bring the guy back for a tearful reuniting with his wife is just more evidence that this show is banking on cheap drama rather the good writing. There appears to be some super secret plot where the previous Secretary was secretly killed so Madam Secretary can investigate and expose it/risk her life for cheap drama. pentyne fucked around with this message at 04:19 on Nov 10, 2014 |
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Nov 10, 2014 04:12
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I do not care about her husband's bullshit.
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Nov 10, 2014 06:44
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Gawain The Blind posted:I do not care about her husband's bullshit. Yeah, the line about "It came from the President" was stupid justification. The Senate Intelligence committee would lose their poo poo if they learned the President was using the spouse of a high ranking cabinet member for "contract" spy work.
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"You know what would've made The West Wing better? A underlying mystery about whether or not the CIA is assassinating members of the Cabinet and silencing witnesses" -The writers of Madam Secretary. This show is complete garbage. Was it originally pitched as a lovely Tom Clancy-like political thriller series? pentyne fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Nov 17, 2014 |
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Nov 17, 2014 04:09
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"And so it goes" I knew it was going where it did! I am still enjoying it. I liked the lady getting roses from the NASA guy.
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Nov 17, 2014 05:32
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I guess they got sick of trying to redo the West Wing.
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well that sure was an episode! Edit: oh man, that was the most West Wing episode. In fact I think it WAS a west wing episode. At least a pale imitation of, but that's still good yeah? Edit again no it was actually really poo poo. damnit.if the next episode isn't better i'm done with this. BSam fucked around with this message at 12:30 on Nov 24, 2014 |
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Nov 24, 2014 12:02
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This show is hot, hot garbage.
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Are there any drat characters left that aren't read in on Marsh=assassinated? Just her 12 year-old anarchist? Does he still even exist?
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wukkar posted:Are there any drat characters left that aren't read in on Marsh=assassinated? Just her 12 year-old anarchist? Does he still even exist? I can't even tell what direction its going. So the CoS for the president finds out, freaks the gently caress out and yells at her, is really upset that she thought he/pres was involved. So...who killed Marsh? They painted it heavily as "silenced a threat to the president" but now that's up in the air. It'll probably be revealed to be some convoluted web of business interests and entrenched politicians who hired some Mossad agents to recreate their previous "work". But then, what does that make this show? Some weird hybrid of West Wing and Scandal? I literally cannot stand the forced love triangle between the black woman and her abusive fiancee and weirdo glasses curly haired guy, who after having them casually flirt a bit he suddenly confessed his love to her then she said she's staying with the fiancee, then an episode or two later the staffers hook up. It's a complete mess, and it seems like every few episodes the writers have a disagreement and change the tone of the show.
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I might start loving this show if they keep going balls to the walls crazy. A bunch of Texas militiamen storm into Mexico, pull off kidnapping a prisoner (who killed a Texas cop) who was held in Mexico, then bring him back to Texas, and the good old boy southern Governor yucks it up with "this is how we do things in Texas" and refuses to release said prisoner and picks a fight with the federal govt.
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Jan 5, 2015 05:15
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Let me guess - everyone else forgot there was a new episode today?
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pentyne posted:I might start loving this show if they keep going balls to the walls crazy. That governor was loving hilarious, I looked away from my TV and thought I had switched the channel to Looney Tunes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LCsiWL6gn0 (I mean I realize that's a real world accent but he really went full tilt into it)
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The Lord Bude posted:Let me guess - everyone else forgot there was a new episode today? I decided to rewatch an episode of The West Wing every Sunday night instead.
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I personally loved how she handled that lovely rogue governor. She doesn't pull any punches. (yeah yeah, just a show)
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Jan 6, 2015 22:03
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I liked the photo op at the end.
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Is it wrong that this thread didn't sell me on the show based on comparisons to West Wing, but because I've always had a crush on Tea Leoni? 
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WarLocke posted:Is it wrong that this thread didn't sell me on the show based on comparisons to West Wing, but because I've always had a crush on Tea Leoni? That's why I watched, and because I liked wings
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WarLocke posted:Is it wrong that this thread didn't sell me on the show based on comparisons to West Wing, but because I've always had a crush on Tea Leoni? Well, the comparisons were mostly "Hahaha they could not be trying harder and failing to be sorkin-esque"
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Jan 12, 2015 01:52
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This is a ridiculous show, especially all the strange family & feel good scenes and they seem to have forgotten about the assassination etc. On the other hand Tea Leoni is pretty awesome, and I like her secretary too.
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Does anyone know why the show is taking another break until March? Or are the airdates on wikipedia full of crap? The Lord Bude fucked around with this message at 08:20 on Jan 12, 2015 |
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Boatswain posted:This is a ridiculous show, especially all the strange family & feel good scenes and they seem to have forgotten about the assassination etc. The family stuff is bizarre. The oldest daughter is just the stereotypical "college opened my eyes I know how the world really works now  " and keeps acting openly disrespectful to her parents in the worst way possible.
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So after having watched the first episode, I'm liking the show but it's kind of hard to quantify. It first seems like it wants to be West Wing, complete with Sorkin-ish rapid-fire dialogue, but then veers into (more) serious politics with the kidnapped kids and then caps off with a conspiracy and assassinations in the white house/CIA. 
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6 episodes in and I'm not really getting why POTUS wanted her for this job. He's all 'you think outside the box, hell you don't know there IS a box' in the pilot but he and the assistant guy do nothing but make poo poo harder for her and throw her under the bus at every turn. I am starting to think that the POTUS' plan was to kill the former Secretary of State and think that Leoni's character would be one he could control and dispose of later.
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She is an old friend with the same background as he and the box thing was code for I'm gonna throw you under the bus because you can take it. She has yet to fail professionally.
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Jan 14, 2015 06:42
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OK, I'm in on this one. It's a good show. Madam Secretary is basically West Wing Lite with a dash of family drama and the B Plot being thise White House/CIA murder conspiracy mystery. 
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The Lord Bude posted:Does anyone know why the show is taking another break until March? Football.
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Jan 18, 2015 00:41
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So did everyone forget this was back from break or something?
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I watched it. I just have too much stuff going on to post a lot. I am happy this got picked up for season 2. I do NOT like the turn it's taken where her friend is a conspirator in the previous Secretary's death. That just seems wrong. I know it probably happens in real life, but ugh.
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The Lord Bude posted:So did everyone forget this was back from break or something? No the show is just pretty bad. It's a mix of West Wing and standard conspiracy mystery without being able to do either well and clearly failing at it.
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Mar 8, 2015 06:45
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This show is so bad, yet so incredibly watchable.
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I just watched the episode from Sunday. I thought it was really good. I was so sad to see the Iranian guy get killed though, especially in front of his son.
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I don't know what it is about this show, it's not very good honestly but I can't stop watching it.
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That's because it is actually good for what it is and it doesn't stray from that.
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Mar 23, 2015 20:43
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I'm pretty sure there's no way in hell a private citizen could never seize another country's art/antiquities as collateral for owning a bunch of said country's bonds.
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Lol that stuff with the cult is some Monty Python poo poo. "The time is nigh! The time is nigh!" 
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pentyne posted:I'm pretty sure there's no way in hell a private citizen could never seize another country's art/antiquities as collateral for owning a bunch of said country's bonds. You might want to look at the current conflict between Argentina and it's hedge fund creditors.
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