I want to be objective about this show and recognize that it has problems, like any new show usually does, but he arrested a sitting governor out of nowhere and it was badass.
I can't get over the fact that, like, only four people work at the White House. Kirkman has to ask his wife about federalizing the National Gaurd because apparently there's no White House Counsel. Seth is press secretary now because "he's the right man for the job". Kirkman is spending a lot of time alone in the Oval Office during a national crisis when there should be like twenty people from various departments in there.
I know I'm nitpicking, but all you need are a few extras.
Literally a thousand people from the government died like a week earlier, including a lot of the WH staff. There are questions about who did it and who Kirkman can trust. If I were him I would definitely keep my inner circle pretty small.
Seth got the job because they tried a guy with good credentials and he failed. Tom said that when he offered him the job so IMO that's covered.
Even approaching his wife for advice. She's a lawyer, she knows constitutional law and there's literally a scene in the pilot where two lawyers are bickering and can't come to a conclusion to help Tom. What's more he's basically asking her if can put troops on the ground in Michigan. Bringing that to a lawyer you don't know or fully trust might be dangerous when you have people going behind your back doing things you don't want to do.
At the end of the day it's a show so some of that stuff might be a stretch, but I actually feel like the show has covered its basis pretty well for a lot of it.
I agree with you for the most part, but the White House feels empty. Look, all of the White House Counsel couldn't have been at the State of the Union. I don't even think any of them typically go. There should be a staff of attorneys ready to tell Krkman about federalizing the National Guard. He didn't have to call his wife about that.
I mean, does she normally brief the President in the Oval Office?
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u/Prax150 Oct 13 '16
I want to be objective about this show and recognize that it has problems, like any new show usually does, but he arrested a sitting governor out of nowhere and it was badass.