Designated Survivor (TV Series) Summit (2018) User Reviews

Everyone NEEDS to CHILL... Life (& this episode) IS NOT that bad lol

[phatchad · 9/10 · 19 March 2021]

Between the people who posted that this episode made you.... "Sick To My stomach"... "Unwatchable"... You would think that this episode was horrible... Spoiler, it's not. I LIKED IT. I thought it was a clever idea for an episode... and honestly, this ENTIRE SERIES, is REALLY GOOD! I'm SAD that they canceled "Designated Survivor". You all need to smoke something and take a chill pill. Life isnt that bad & this episode/show is GOOD. You all remind me of food critics. SO MANY TIMES I've read food reviews, then went to the restaurant MYSELF, and thought the food/restaurant was good. Sure, not EVERYONE will like the same TV shows or same restaurants.... But to BLATANTLY call something "BAD" when its NOT, is blasphemous. That's like people who say "So & so professional athlete isnt any good"... Ummm, they're PROFESSIONALS, so they HAVE to be good to be a PROFESSIONAL in the first place.

Deeply unconvincing

[nhirsteurope-20859 · 3/10 · 4 January 2019]

The central flaw of this series is that it panders too readily to the demands of an audience with a short attention span and advertisers with an eye on quick gains. Everything has to be resolved in double quick time. As a result, it falls between too many stools. This episode is a great example. President Kirkland is trying to broker a peace deal between North and South Korea - mystifyingly renamed East and West Hun Chiu - at Camp David. We learn that the leader of North Kor...sorry, East Hun Chiu, Chairman Kim, is an evil despot who has personally executed most of his own family using an anti-aircraft gun. Yet, when we meet him, he acts like a mildly disgruntled geography teacher!

To complicate matters, Kim's remaining son wants to defect. This he does with the aid of, yes, Hannah Wells who then conducts the debrief hoping to gain intel about Kim's nuclear programme. The son won't give up any information until his girlfriend is safe. She is being held at the East Hun Chiu consulate, which is described as 'a fortress'. Presumably, the consulate, Camp David, the FBI HQ and the unnamed spot where Kim's son defected, are all within a few metres of each other as Agent Hannah Wells (Maggie Q), apparently the FBI's only agent, manages get round them all in a matter of seconds.

Naturally it is the intrepid Agent Wells who decides, unilaterally, to rescue the girlfriend from the consulate, of course alone and with no back-up. How does she break in? Using the devilish deception of setting off her car alarm late at night and overpowering the two guards who come to investigate. She then walks in to the consulate unchallenged and, upon opening the first door she comes to, discovers the girlfriend in question. Who knew security work was so easy?

The whole episode suffers from deeply unconvincing writing and plotting with most of the performances phoned in. It must have been around here when ABC started to consider cancelling the series.

Summit

[bobcobb301 · 5/10 · 29 March 2018]

Why couldn't they use North and South Korea? Even if they didn't pick a side there was no reason to shy away from real world countries since they haven't in the past.

There is just no drama here, and the goofy comedy is too much. The W60-3 forms and sleep apnea masks are not getting it done.

Ridiculous episode

[mwascholz · 2/10 · 3 April 2018]

What a ridiculous episode. Why on earth would they make up fake countries when it is obvious that North and South Korea are meant. Hannah as always is doing everything by herself, now debriefing the defecting son of President Kim. Such a load of nonsense. Of course there is a small, meanigless funny story line, this time about Lyor's duplicate. The acting is lousy, the story is weak and this show is going downhill fast.

Jack and Audrie/North and South Korea

[Hitchcoc · 4/10 · 21 July 2019]

This convoluted episode meanders around. Of course, the two countries are North and South Korea, but..... Then there is the brewing romance between the two actors who played significant roles on 24. The whole process is so far fetched that it is hard to take it seriously. Once again, President Moss has been engaged and once again he is acting like an ass. Oh well.

Sick to the stomach.

[tomthrone · 1/10 · 29 March 2018]

This fictional episode went to too far. We all know East/West HanChu is based on and all about North/South Korea. Bad acting, especially Chairman Kim and his Son. Perhaps ABC couldn't afford better actors. And the writing is one of the worst of the Season 2. If ABC or any network wants to create North/South Korea, China and Japan, Russia based episode, they better research more and treat it with more respect, even if it is for 'entertainment purpose' only with fictional circumstance. At least NBC's TAKEN did just that with their own North Korean episode by providing authenticity in every angle with respect to the culture and people.

Silly and stupid

[nfire-29741 · 2/10 · 7 May 2020]

The writing is laughable. So ridiculous.

And Maggie Q (Hannah) is a horrible actress. Every scene with her in it, seems like a Geiko commercial gone wrong. Maybe a SNL skit???

Unwatchable.

[amodsandeepa · 1/10 · 22 February 2020]

Why on Earth did they use East an West Hun Chiu instead of North and South Korea. This episode is so cringey and totally unwatchable.