Watched entire third season in a few nights. Ten episodes not enough to fully develop some of the characters and storylines. Was Netflix rushing to get new content uploaded? Not a huge fan of DS, but it's watchable. House of Cards was far better and had more diabolically interesting characters. DS storyline and characters are HoC/West Wing - lite.
Re S3,
Julie White as Lorraine Zimmer, Kirkman's new campaign manager, absolutely knocked it out of the park. MVP of the season in my opinion. She's had a lot of stage experience and
it shows - and has won the Tony award.
LOVED HER.
Lorraine Zimmer is miles away my absolute favorite of all the characters thus far - followed by Hannah Wells. Hope there's a S4 and Julie/Lorraine returns as a regular.
The Aaron/Isabel storyline irritates me. I don't like her. I'm rooting for a breakup in S4, although that appears unlikely.
And what's a Hispanic doing with a name like Aaron Shore? Both first and last names imply Jewish descent. Writers could have chosen something not quite so inapposite.
The bioterrorism story line was good - wish S4 had more than ten episodes to develop that without the characters disappearing so quickly.
I've also always loved Maggie Q.
She met a very odd, unexpected and much too early a demise. Hope they find a way to bring her back.
Other characters are OK for me. Don't particularly appreciate and thus fast forward through the sex scenes, which don't add a thing. Story could easily be told without them - except the after-the-fact scene w/Lorraine and boy toy was a hoot. And, yes, writers are blatantly left-wing - going a bit far, however, this season. Especially with the Dontae storyline. Unnecessarily graphic, imo.
Can't say I'm a huge fan of the series, but it is entertaining enough. If Julie White comes back, I'll continue watching.
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