After watching the first two episodes of Designated Survivor, I’m done.  The writing is not up to that of 24, and Kiefer Sutherland plays a curiously low-energy role.  But mostly it’s the P.C. plot.  Terrorists blow up the Capitol during the State of the Union address, decapitating the entire government except for the Secretary of HUD, played by Kiefer, who becomes president, and a single Republican congresswoman (now, there’s diversity). The public, of course, suspects Muslims, and the governor of Michigan turns the cops loose on the citizens of Dearbornistan, resulting in a "child" (18-year-old boy) getting kicked to death by cops.  And Kal Penn, a speechwriter at the White House, is stopped on his way to work by two insensitive (is there any other kind?) white male cops for the crime of looking suspicious (dark skin while carrying a backpack).  Imagine: an attack kills the president, Cabinet, Congress, and Supreme...(Read Full Post)