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This is one of those shows that squandered all the good will it had banked. It started out as interesting, entertaining, and well written and devolved into what amounts as a liberal campaign ad of sorts. Don't get me wrong, I get that a show about politics has to have politics, but the thing is it ceased to be anything but pushing an agenda and at that point it failed to perform its primary function which is to entertain.

Additionally, the show quickly became formulaic ... entire world in a crisis in steps Madam Secretary and solves all of humanities problems by talking to one person and suddenly it undoes decades of problems in minutes. Moreover, none of these solutions ever had any negative or unexpected ramifications... unlike real life which tends to be if not full of them at least not totally devoid of them.

The story, which is mediocre at best, could be told much better in maybe a little over an hour (probably more like 40 minutes really) and yet the director dragged it out for 159 minutes of pure drivel. If the parts with decent dialogue were all you watched it might be 5 - 10 minutes long.

As an example one reviewer gave, there is a scene about 2 minutes long of Vince Vaughn eating a sandwich and Mel Gibson then complaining about how long it took... the irony is that scene describes the entire movie which took too long and had very poor writing from start to finish.

Avoid this thing like the plague, that failing at least play it at 150% speed and make liberal use of the 10 second skip button so you can avoid the tedium of sitting through nothing happening for about 80% of the movie.