(VO) "Tonight on Designated Survivor:" Hannah starts her car with her phone and shows the Fusion' s great Sync features. Kidnappers roar up to the Fusion in the motel parking lot, threatening it with their high speed approach. Everyone hopes the Fusion won't be harmed during the kidnapping.

Whatever might have been good about this episode was negated by ham-fisted direction, pat writing and florid overacting (of course journalists nod with approval and smile to each other whenever POTUS says something hopeful, of course they do…), and hokey storytelling. Does this Hannah woman have zero situational…

Well, that was stupid. Stupid all around. Carol chewing out Todd and Gail? Stupid. Todd dragging around medicated Melissa? Stupid. The return of Gary the Ball as an unnecessary reminder of what a childish moron Tandy has always been? Stupid. The persistence of calling Phil "Tandy"? Particularly stupid. This show would…

You mean like (rip) when they go to the imaginary kids' imaginary school programs and stuff?

Well as this isn't a matter of what the rest of the characters know but is instead ALL about what viewers and A.V. Club readers know and what an A.V. Club review writer is expected to get right, my comment remains entirely correct. Gail is trapped in the elevator, but the reviewer says Gail and Carol are with the…

"Carol and Gail do their best to help, but are hindered by their resources."

Can you provide a complete link? What you posted merely opens another search page (and the search for the info yielded nothing).

Of course! The identical twin med students, Meggie and Peggie. Both of them, sensing Wes's emotional vulnerability, were messing with him for laughs until one of them got serious.

What "signing garden gnome"? I didn't see its hands move.

God, I couldn't stomach Dharma and Greg. Elfman isn't getting anywhere in comedies 'cuz she ain't a comedian and she's not a very good actress either. And Gibson is a stiff, in and out of character.

1. I think Yedlin found that area of the male abbies brains to be a fraction of the size as that of their human counterparts, but the same area in Margaret's brain was much larger than the males'.

And the lameness returns. I suppose it was too much to expect two good episodes in a row, but it would have been nice if it had happened. Still, Jason grew a little and Kerrie grew a lot. Xander and Rebecca's baby seems like a MacGuffin to keep Margaret from killing her, however, and their smooch after he shoots…

There are no "black" or "Asian" abbies? Really? What has struck me each time they show abbies is that there seems to be no clear "race" and that intermixing seems to have been the norm. And please remember that Pilcher's forecast for the abbies was flawed. He foresaw that the forces that lead to them would havebeen…

His reputation as a scientist was marred by his insistence on the coming of this future world, his vision presented primarily in crackpot style, and he was largely discredited. After that, his progress on getting the WP project going was by recruiting society's losers and failures with promises of a better life, and…

Pilcher was defeated by hubris. Humans have the bad habit of seeing themselves in their current state as the ultimate life form, even though we could be easily wiped out by wildlife and whimsical actions of nature. Pilcher could not get beyond his belief that what he foresaw was a devolved human form that could never…

That would be perfect irony, considering how much pain Megan intentionally inflicted on Margaret.

Finally a good episode! Hurrah! Can WP keep it up?

Re the procreation room: I was thinking the same thing. Stark white walls, sterile white bedding, searingly bright lighting, Megan's guides for getting to third base posted around the room… and a pop arrangement of Cole Porter playing in the background. One might think that Megan had never had sex or even sex ed…

Jason Patrick is sliding into Dan Hedaya with age. It hits me every time he's onscreen and snaps me right out of the moment.

Thanks, but no thanks. The show blew its wad last year and is running on wishful thinking now. I hope it doesn't degrade into tenacious purposelessness like Dome did, though right now it's already showing signs of just that. So long, Wayward Pines.