Political dramas, for the most part, are boring. When PC is offensively overshadowing a good story, you can count on that program tanking. Happily, this show is not as bad as the more recent fiascoes, at least Geena Davis is not clad in leotards, colorful super-cape and she has real acting chops. I guess the directing is just as good (maybe better because of later episodes) as any other show on TV. The writing begins slow in order to emphasize (and re-emphasize) this victim's tale (too bad - that just isn't needed.) I will say the show really started getting interesting later-on in the saga's progress, but I think it might have been to late to resuscitate this suffering drama. That is too bad, since I really started to like this, "Command in Chief." I think the stopped might have been dealing with all that 'Poor Me - I'm a Victim Garbage.' The cast grew on me and I began to like them all. I guess the bad had to be weeded out. It was also nice to see Geena Davis finally stop chewing on her cheeks when she was trying to be really, really, really serious - I guess she had to get comfortable in the roll). Donald Sutherland is excellent - being the deviously evil Speaker of the House. All in all, this is a show should have gotten a little more time. The potential was there - it just showed up too late in the progress of the program. It is worth a watch.

This was an awesome show I was so sad when it got canceled. It is too bad that more people didn't watch it, it was worth it alone to see Donald Sutherland's performance because he was really amazing in this show and his character was so fascinating and just great. Geena Davis was also really good as the woman who becomes the first female U.S. president out of circumstance without actually being elected, that itself is a really good premise for a show and I thought this show was great and different. I hope it comes out on DVD because I either missed some shows or it just never finished airing on TV. Too bad it didn't get another year at least!

I have to say, I am absolutely hooked on this programme! What a fantastic President! Oh boy the USA needs a woman president! Geena Davis is absolutely perfect and the cast are excellent! The West Wing sometimes was a bit too complex and the dialogue was made at a 100 miles an hour it was hard to keep up. This show is far better, is more realistic, has all ethnic minorities in respected places, gay men, nice people and all the make up of the USA. She is seen as a little gem by her staff, her staff are all there because of their strengths not by being a friend of a friend who has a military corporation like this current president has. This current US president simply looks after his friends, causes conflicts and war to keep his friends paid.A woman president would think twice about sending sons and daughters into illegal wars like the current US president has done.Roll on Hillary Clinton, I hope she watches this programme, she could learn a lot from this excellent show! Diego

Until catching up with American posters here, I hadn't realised "Commander In Chief" had been axed.Joy, oh joy.We've just cleared our PVR of the unseen episodes that stacked up whilst we were away, having set the unit to make weekly recordings of CiC's first (and now, it would appear, only) UK season during our absence.Tempting, though, to keep the pilot, through which we did manage to suffer, if only as an instance of the gulf that separates great US television (West Wing) from dross US TV (CinC).Most tempting of all was to save the sequence where the President of the USA decides to invade Nigeria, a client state of China, in order to protect the right of women to have sex.Well, there's one heady issue West Wing never managed to touch upon in all its careful, considered explorations of global realpolitik.But it's the scene of the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff jovially informing the Nigerian Amabassador: "Hey, we're rather good at this!" which will long resonate.As long as TV shows as dumb as this attract the kind of support seen on this board, it's no wonder Mr Bush has such a constituency of belief to draw upon when seeking to demonstrate in reality what Rod Lurie so clumsily sought to demonstrate in fiction -- that be it Nigeria or Iraq, America really is pretty good at this. . .C'mon home, Jeb. America needs you now more than ever.