Night Watch

Episode aired May 20, 2018
TV-14
43m

IMDb RATING

8.4/10

424

YOUR RATING

Téa Leoni and Tim Daly in Madam Secretary (2014)

Drama Thriller

Elizabeth and the cabinet must brace for fallout after President Dalton announces a retaliatory nuclear strike on a nation that has launched missiles at the US.Elizabeth and the cabinet must brace for fallout after President Dalton announces a retaliatory nuclear strike on a nation that has launched missiles at the US.Elizabeth and the cabinet must brace for fallout after President Dalton announces a retaliatory nuclear strike on a nation that has launched missiles at the US.

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IMDb RATING

8.4/10

424

YOUR RATING

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8cjde341-736-330208

Scary, but ...

The first half is outstanding, but it's conclusion was too rushed, too preachy and a bit too improbable. An interesting lead-in to Season 5, though.

10susanfroom

Television at its very best! Rivetingly engaging.

Amazingly excellent. Kudos to the creators for their creativity, commitment and courage in presenting a really big issue at a humanly engaging scale.

Note that in the 1979 incident alluded to in the show, the US came within 14 minutes of a catastrophic nuclear war due to a scenario like the one portrayed, and again in 1980 due to the failure of a 46 cent computer chip. Unfortunately, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, this sort of risk is greater today than ever. Let's hope that this programme inspires good diplomacy and political action.

10blue-7

THOUGHT PROVOKING

This episode was one of the finest things that I've experienced on television. Thought provoking as we realize just how fragile on relationships in this world are. It reminded me of the film FAIL SAFE and just how easy it would be to destroy our world. Its frightening to think of those in power who have the ability to destroy with the press of a button. North Korea, Russia, Iran, U.S.. MADAME SECRETARY is very enlightening in how challenging serving our country can be and this particular episode explored a deep subject in a thought provoking manor.

Trivia
The official name of the "Nuclear Football" is the "President's Emergency Satchel".

Goofs
U.S Strategic Command, Sarpy County, Nebraska is Offutt, AFB in Bellevue Nebraska. The AFB shown is actually Altus AFB, in Altus, Oklahoma.

Quotes
Jay Whitman: [at happy hour after a close call with the nuclear defense system] Let me just tell you what that particular privilege buys you.
Kat Sandoval: Mm hmm, tell him.
Jay Whitman: You get whisked away, without saying goodbye to your friends and family. And then you get to be in an underground bunker with generals and top government brass for weeks or months, eating MREs and drinking ionized water. You emerge after the radiation's reduced to livable levels. At which point you get to try to pick out your loved ones bones from the rubble and ash. And then you spend however many years running the bombed-out husk of the former United Stats government under martial law. That's not a list that you wanna be on.