johns6087
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This show is good and I am looking forward to seeing where they go with it.
I have to admit it is still kind of weird seeing Kiefer Sutherland in a role that is not his famous Jack Bauer role in the long running hit show 24 - especially since a lot of these scenes also take place in the Oval Office/White House/FBI offices etc. But I'm getting more used to this more thoughtful, diplomatic, even "nerdy" character he is playing in this.
Once you get past a pretty hard to swallow premise, that terrorists (or was it?) have set off a bomb in the U.S. capitol building during the President's state of the union address, killing absolutely every member of government other than the titular "designated survivor" (Kiefer Sutherland as a very low run cabinet member, the secretary of urban development) and making him a very unlikely and unprepared president - the rest becomes much easier to accept, and more entertaining.
Throw in the requisite investigation with twists and turns and a possible frame job/cover-up, citizens and governors who aren't ready to accept him as president - especially after discovering the president told him he was fired the day of the attack, and a second "designated survivor" from congress who of course is at odds with Sutherland and wants his job, and you've got this series so far.
It's promising and the acting is good.
I have to admit it is still kind of weird seeing Kiefer Sutherland in a role that is not his famous Jack Bauer role in the long running hit show 24 - especially since a lot of these scenes also take place in the Oval Office/White House/FBI offices etc. But I'm getting more used to this more thoughtful, diplomatic, even "nerdy" character he is playing in this.
Once you get past a pretty hard to swallow premise, that terrorists (or was it?) have set off a bomb in the U.S. capitol building during the President's state of the union address, killing absolutely every member of government other than the titular "designated survivor" (Kiefer Sutherland as a very low run cabinet member, the secretary of urban development) and making him a very unlikely and unprepared president - the rest becomes much easier to accept, and more entertaining.
Throw in the requisite investigation with twists and turns and a possible frame job/cover-up, citizens and governors who aren't ready to accept him as president - especially after discovering the president told him he was fired the day of the attack, and a second "designated survivor" from congress who of course is at odds with Sutherland and wants his job, and you've got this series so far.
It's promising and the acting is good.
There's nothing really special about this show, it's a typical 1980's to 1990's sitcom with not very well developed characters and a really simple premise, but the actors are so likable and the show is so fun that I just don't care.
In this case the characters are Balki Bartokomous (Bronson Pinchot), a naive and very foreign shepherd boy from Mypos (pretty much but technically not really a Greek island) who immigrates to the land of the free America, in the city of Chicago, to build a new life. This is much to the chagrin of "Cousin Larry", his (distant) American cousin who is a wannabe photographer who had no idea Balki was coming. Apparently it's customary in their family that they should just take each other in for unknown periods of time.
Cousin Larry obviously has reservations until he's moved by Balki's plight and his kindness and opens his doors (and apartment) to the foreigner. The two work in a nick-knack shop, then at the Chicago Tribune newspaper (after Larry makes it as a photographer/news man), and all along the way they go through the weekly ritual of know-it- all Larry announcing "I have a plan!" then forcing Balki, who knows what they should actually do but is too innocent and taken in by Cousin Larry's confidence to object, to get into trouble before clumsily lucking their way out of it. They also have crushes on their two upstairs neighbour girls, beautiful stewardesses, who they pursue (and finally get) during the series' entire run, even buying and fixing up a house. Obviously the plots and situations wear thin by the end (the last season was not very good in my opinion) but even then the characters and simple, fun premise stayed entertaining and just plain fun!
The only really remarkable thing about this show is how enduringly popular it was as it lasted a surprising number of seasons/years (like 10!) and huge numbers of people loved it during its run on ABC's (or was it NBC's?) "TGIF" Friday night lineup.
Definitely a family friendly show too, if that is something that concerns you (kind of why we watched it).
In this case the characters are Balki Bartokomous (Bronson Pinchot), a naive and very foreign shepherd boy from Mypos (pretty much but technically not really a Greek island) who immigrates to the land of the free America, in the city of Chicago, to build a new life. This is much to the chagrin of "Cousin Larry", his (distant) American cousin who is a wannabe photographer who had no idea Balki was coming. Apparently it's customary in their family that they should just take each other in for unknown periods of time.
Cousin Larry obviously has reservations until he's moved by Balki's plight and his kindness and opens his doors (and apartment) to the foreigner. The two work in a nick-knack shop, then at the Chicago Tribune newspaper (after Larry makes it as a photographer/news man), and all along the way they go through the weekly ritual of know-it- all Larry announcing "I have a plan!" then forcing Balki, who knows what they should actually do but is too innocent and taken in by Cousin Larry's confidence to object, to get into trouble before clumsily lucking their way out of it. They also have crushes on their two upstairs neighbour girls, beautiful stewardesses, who they pursue (and finally get) during the series' entire run, even buying and fixing up a house. Obviously the plots and situations wear thin by the end (the last season was not very good in my opinion) but even then the characters and simple, fun premise stayed entertaining and just plain fun!
The only really remarkable thing about this show is how enduringly popular it was as it lasted a surprising number of seasons/years (like 10!) and huge numbers of people loved it during its run on ABC's (or was it NBC's?) "TGIF" Friday night lineup.
Definitely a family friendly show too, if that is something that concerns you (kind of why we watched it).
This show is junk. None of this show is funny or has made me laugh even one time.
The show is made by a sketch troop of four women and one of them is great (Meredith), one is good, one is just OK and one is really just awful.
The sketches are not funny and just plain stupid and you can see exactly where the jokes are going to be coming from at every single turn.
It is just your typical bad CBC comedy show and I don't know why they keep making awful comedies like this. At least this is a step up from Little Mosque on the Prairie which was total garbage and had even worse acting.
It is worth watching for the two good actresses but the one girl is just an annoying mosquito and all of the jokes are so bad I just roll my eyes.
Another miss for the CBC and I don't understand why they are pretending this is a huge hit, it is not and I only know a few people who have seen it and none of them like it. I'm betting it will be cancelled quick.
The show is made by a sketch troop of four women and one of them is great (Meredith), one is good, one is just OK and one is really just awful.
The sketches are not funny and just plain stupid and you can see exactly where the jokes are going to be coming from at every single turn.
It is just your typical bad CBC comedy show and I don't know why they keep making awful comedies like this. At least this is a step up from Little Mosque on the Prairie which was total garbage and had even worse acting.
It is worth watching for the two good actresses but the one girl is just an annoying mosquito and all of the jokes are so bad I just roll my eyes.
Another miss for the CBC and I don't understand why they are pretending this is a huge hit, it is not and I only know a few people who have seen it and none of them like it. I'm betting it will be cancelled quick.