DESIGNATED SURVIVOR 15

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2016 25 sEPTEMBEr DVD ExTras Featurettes

Wouldn’t it be cool if Jack Bauer was president? That’s the core idea behind ABC’s political thriller, in which Kiefer Sutherland’s secretary of housing, Tom Kirkman, is sworn in after an explosion kills POTUS and everyone in the line of succession. Before you can mutter “goddammit”, this sincere liberal is fighting terrorists without and machinations within. It’s hammy but riveting, and the overlaps with Trump’s reign (man of no experience presiding over red-alert times) add juice. Jamie Graham