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Tea Leoni is definitely a good actress... But for some reason almost everything she is involved with fails. I expect this to never get any traction and die early.
I think Tea Leoni did a nice job in the pilot. She handles the dramatic scenes pretty well, especially the family scenes. I am not sure yet if I buy her as an expert in foreign policy / ex-CIA type. However, I am willing to give it a chance.
I do think that the writing on the show is suffering in comparison to the excellent writing on the West Wing, which the show is being compared to. While that may not be fair, it is a problem for the show.
I'm on the east coast so football will definitely screw with the start time. Because of that I'm not going to bother DVRing it. I'll just download it the next day and watch it on my computer before I hit the highway. Commercial free
I think Tea Leoni did a nice job in the pilot. She handles the dramatic scenes pretty well, especially the family scenes. I am not sure yet if I buy her as an expert in foreign policy / ex-CIA type. However, I am willing to give it a chance.
I do think that the writing on the show is suffering in comparison to the excellent writing on the West Wing, which the show is being compared to. While that may not be fair, it is a problem for the show.
I'm thinking I'll give it more than one 45 min episode before I decide if it deserves more airing but so far so good.
BTW, how is a former ex CIA type expert supposed come across on a TV program?
I think this show is giving us one writing team's opinion. An agency analyst turned history professor and now Secretary of State. Even the president is a former company man.
I'm not going to watch unless I catch it later in the week on cbs.com. I can't deal with the football thing. I wish they hadn't moved The Good Wife to Sunday. I wouldn't have gotten hooked if had started on Sunday. Football killed Cold Case for me, and I thought that's it, never again. But I love Julianna Margulies.
I wish CBS would put its worst shows on Sunday (NCIS, CSI) instead of its best shows.
It was okay. Predictable that George would die. I'm not going to fight with football and the DVR, I am just not going to get involved with Madame Secretary. I'll be watching another channel, any channel to stay away from Sunday night at CBS.
I watched the show on the CBS website which was kind annoyed as the stream kept getting stuck. But the show was good enough that I think I will try another episode.
I'm not going to watch unless I catch it later in the week on cbs.com. I can't deal with the football thing. I wish they hadn't moved The Good Wife to Sunday. I wouldn't have gotten hooked if had started on Sunday. Football killed Cold Case for me, and I thought that's it, never again. But I love Julianna Margulies.
I wish CBS would put its worst shows on Sunday (NCIS, CSI) instead of its best shows.
Ah yes, Cold Case, another show I would have watched if it wasn't on Sunday night. Now I catch it on cable.
If CBS and NBC don't want to lose viewers because of their unpredictable scheduling on Sunday nights, they should run the shows again at 12, 1, 2, 3 ,4 AM like the cable stations do.....ON TIME....so people can watch or DVR them.
I catch a lot of cable station shows this way when I normally wouldn't watch them at all because of scheduling conflicts.
ABC is the only network programming I watch on Sunday nights, since CBS and NBC starting times are a crap shoot because of football.
I want hassle free TV.
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