CORPORATE LINE: Geena Davis lights up the screen as President Mackenzie Allen, earning a Golden Globe(R) award for Best Actress in the show’s inaugural season. Experience the first 10 thrilling episodes of the captivating drama, starring Davis, Emmy(R) Award winner Donald Sutherland, and an acclaimed cast. When the President of the United States dies in office, his independent Vice President ventures into territory no woman has ever entered before. Now, the nation’s first female Commander In Chief must balance the pressures of running the country and the responsibility of raising a family while facing a sustained torrent of underhanded attacks from the Speaker Of The House (Sutherland). It’s an exhilarating blend of suspense and drama that O, The Oprah Magazine, calls “realistic and riveting!”
THE REVIEW: Everyone knows there isn’t a better cast on television, aside from most of the HBO shows. Commander In Chief has a great premise—that occasionally gets lost as the show spins its wheels. Geena Davis and Donald Sutherland are the keys to the show. The storylines are fairly impressive and not many steps behind the first few seasons of West Wing. The problem is that the show tries hard to cash in on the idea of Geena Davis being President yet it doesn’t completely cash-in on the many different elements that could come out of the female President. Then again, this is the first season and some things have to be left for what they hoped would be years and years of the show.
THE EXTRAS: The real bust of this DVD set is the fact that there are no features.
FRANKLY: The great thing about Commander In Chief is that you can tear through the episodes in a sitting. I was going to watch the show one evening at 7 P.M. and watch a few episodes and go to bed—it was hard to even get away after about five straight hours. It’s truly absorbing. Then again, the next day there wasn’t an immediate pull to watch the rest—which is what happens with shows like the Sopranos and Deadwood.
+ Charlie Craine
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