Yeah, like I said it was more something I just needed to get off my chest. Most likely you're right, and I should just try to watch the show here on out and enjoy it.

Apologies in advance for the long and tedious post. I wrote it less as a defender of The Brink, more as someone who normally loves reading AV Club reviews of the TV shows he watches, to the point where it's part of the experience for me. Just something I needed to get off my chest:

I didn't say that Talbot did good by sending the fax, just that it likely wasn't the deciding factor, so Talbot will do more than enough good to make up for it later.

Larson has been stopping the U.S. from bombing Pakistan at every turn, more than making up for what might happen; Talbot's info may have made things slightly harder, but not by much I think, and I fully expect he's about to more than make up for it by being State's only man on the ground; Zeke you may have a point,…

"The series ostensibly tells the story of how a coup d’état in Pakistan coupled with the bumbling actions of three people of influence—a philandering, alcoholic, anti-war Secretary of State, a lowly slacker Foreign Services officer, and a pill-popping fighter pilot—start a chain reaction that could lead to nuclear…