Madam Secretary (TV Series) The Chaos Game (2018) User Reviews

Oh Russia!

[LordofArt · 7/10 · 15 October 2018]

Russia's history as a bad actor on the world stage was all over the place.

Reason for the German flag pin

[mgconlan-1 · 6/10 · 16 October 2018]

The Polish diplomat was wearing a German flag pin to show his white-supremacist sympathies with Germany's Nazi past. The script explained that racist Poles couldn't use actual Nazi symbols because those have been banned in Poland since the end of World War II, so they used proxy symbols like Confederate flags from the U.S. Civil War to express their racist ideology. "Madam Secretary" is one of the best, most literate shows on TV, and at least part of its appeal is as a nostalgic reminder that once the U.S. was governed by people who lived in the real world instead of the narcissistic egomaniac freak, obsessed by mythical conspiracies, in the White House now.

The pin is the Warsaw flag, not the German flag

[carlbarlowiii · 6/10 · 5 June 2023]

A few of the reviews comment on the fact that the character of Polish President Jozef Demko wears a lapel pin on his videoconference calls and at a press conference near the end of this episode, but it would certainly have raised some eyebrows and inspired comments if the pin had been one of the German flag (black, gold, and red horizontal bands from top to bottom). It is not. It is the flag of Warsaw, which only has TWO bands: yellow and red from top to bottom. His dark suit makes it easy to think that there is perhaps a dark/black band above the other two, but there is not.

Those comments probably should have been listed under Trivia or Goofs, not as User Reviews, which is really where this belongs as well.

I know it's supposed to be fiction but.......

[mikebudge · 1/10 · 15 October 2018]

I know it's supposed to be fiction but you have to question the timing of making 'white supremacists' the issue and almost tripping over the praise for muslims in every other conversation.

Just nonsense.

Writers need a 5th grade geography lesson

[vineetmehta-91678 · 1/10 · 15 October 2018]

Polish diplomat with a German flag pin? What are you trying to say?