Spoiler: The the Season 5 finale, President Frank Underwood sends HUD Secretary Tom Kirkman to the bunker for the State of the Union.

OK, you're absolutely right that no real politician in the real world would engage in a 100% unscripted 24-hour live chat like that.

The only way this show redeems itself during the finale is if the big twist is that President Kirkman is literally Jack Bauer who has been mind-wiped, reprogrammed and is under the control of the conspirators who masterminded the Capitol bombing.

This episode was borderline horrible and probably the worst of the entire season. It's like the writers ran out of material after 10 episodes and then were told to stretch it to 22.

I was disappointed by last night's show. My greatest fear for a show like this that has such a tight and limited premise is that it cannot reasonably sustain itself past a season, and if it does, it only does so by basically jettisoning its original tight and limited premise and becomes Generic Political Drama No. 17.

As soon as they did the reveal that Ward was a double agent (again, in reverse), I figured that this story arc will ultimately be the Redemption of Grant Ward, and I'm totally fine with that. It will be a way for the writers to give him a better send-off as a good guy, heal some of Skye's/Daisey's wounds, and…

That's my wife's guess.

I'm going with the First Lady being the mole/conspirator.

Fair point. Maybe LMD Fitz or LMD Coulson messed with that, too?

Ever since we saw the second door next to where May was being held, I've thought Fitz was an LMD. And since Fitz had Coulson and Mack and Daisy hooked up to a Framework program at the beginning of the episode to get them to do the Matrix simulation thingy, that's how their memories got secretly uploaded to make the…

I'm firmly on the "meh" leaning "thumbs down" on this. Five episodes in and I was still not sure what the series was ABOUT because the whole mysterious promotion of it had me thinking that the entire series was going to be some misdirect and that something else was really afoot. I guess I wasn't entirely wrong on…

This was a WEAK episode - almost like they wrote and filmed it six months ago knowing it was going to air the day after the presidential election and they wanted something very bland and neutral.

Part of me thinks that David is deliberately playing this game like he's writing it - he is, after all, a TV writer, and surely he knows that playing the idol for another player CREATES DRAMA which is GOOD TV.

I'm enjoying the show quite a bit, but I agree completely with the critique, particularly TV Teenage Son, who couldn't be more of a stereotype.

I realize applying logic and continuity to a sit-com is a waste of time, but hasn't it been long established that Sheldon has an eidetic memory? How could he NOT tell the Kardashians apart once he's seen the pictures once? Surely his memory would pull that up quickly.

Thanks for that bit of info.

The way Survivor handles medical stuff is always very weird. Like, earlier this season, Jason was clearly wearing burn bandages on his shoulders from wicked sunburn that had blistered (I recognized them because I did the same thing to myself in my early 20s that required the same treatment. Second-degree sunburns are…

I thought this was the weakest episode of SHIELD in a long, long time - too much shoe-horning in of things that didn't feel organic, and character motivations that came out of nowhere. And, boy, were Bobbi and Hunter missed in this show.

Yeah, count me in amongst the teary-eyed at the farewell scene. I loved that scene.

I got beyond the "unrealistic" part of this show when it depicted the Vice President of the United States, in a hoodie and sunglasses, pushing a reporter in front of a subway train, murdering her.