We open up with a VP candidate who is "in the pocket of the NRA." for those of us who work in Washington, this kind of of ignores the fact that Bloomberg's gun ban lobby like Everytown. Moms Demand Action and his own direct funding outspend the NRA 17:1
NRA is powerful because it is the biggest civil rights/liberties organization by paid membership in the USA, 6.4 million Americans and averages 56% to 58% Gallup approvals among all Americans, whereas no gun control/ban group in the USA has more than 1,000 paying members. a Capitol Hill office will get 10x letters from actual constituents, and visits from actual constituents in support of the Second Amendment, compared to those opposed.
This is where, along with military matters the series gets lost. Hollywood does not know these topics and is just spewing its own ignorance (such as with the
"scandal" over the Spec Op SEAL death listed as a "training exercise" when this has been broadly and publicly know to be the listed circumstances of SpecOp deaths for three decades now).
Otherwise Frank is in full form but there doesn't seem to be much dramatic tension since we all know he will make mincemeat of younger GOP candidate who has already made two fatal mistakes by the second episode in which he appears. He is simply no threat