The new series on Netflix, "Designated Survivor". Kiefer Sutherland is the Secretary for Housing and Urban Development in the US Cabinet. Earlier in the day, the White House Chief of Staff tells him that the President is going to sack him; well, promote him sideways out of the Cabinet. But that night he is the "designated survivor" , the Cabinet member left behind as a safeguard during the State of the Union address. Well, forces unknown blow up the Capitol, taking out all of the top tier of US government. So he's President. Been described as The West Wing mixed with Homeland and House of Cards. Sutherland is superb; he says that after reading a couple of scripts he felt like "the next ten years of my life are taken care of".
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