I’m trying to watch “Designated Survivor” on ABC (starring Jack Bauer! Except he’s not Jack Bauer!), but the show seems to be making an effort to lose me.
After the “third deputy assistant to the press secretary” has a poor performance in front of the DC press corps, Kal Penn’s character takes up the mantle. And what happens to the previous person thrust into the spotlight?
“That poor guy is probably halfway to Dubuque by now.”
Now, is it a random city, a poke at Midwesterners who go to DC thinking they have the chops to handle the place, or both? (Or Penn’s character doing the same thing and the guy wasn’t even from Dubuque?) I admit I’m picking apart one line for something non-serious; this is not why the show is losing me. If there’s a state that should have a beef with the show it’s Michigan, because oh boy.