The Common Defense

I used to really enjoy this show. It's now become a weekly hourlong lecture. The Wedt Wing was able to enlighten without preaching. Why not MSec?

Refreshing to watch a network television show that has the courage to address the very real dangers denialism poses to society. You can have your own options but not your own facts. Vaccinations work. Herd immunity must be maintained for infants & immunocompromised. Facts matter regardless of politics.

It's a shame! This was such an excellent series. I believe this show was canceled after only 6 seasons due to the turn it began to take in the 4th season. This episode was where it fell off to the abyss of no return. Sure wish there could have been many more years of M-Sec. This is one of my favorite series ever. I've watched through completely a couple of times and have watched through to this point many more times. I always want the series to continue as it started. The relationships within the McCord family are well developed in this series, as are the ones among the colleagues in M-Sec's office. Perhaps writers and producers will take note of our concerns for future productions.

The author of "Hollywood Fiction" above gets much of this show wrong. The correct terms for immigrants are not "legal" and "illegal," but "documented" and "undocumented." This reviewer is almost certainly a political supporter of the current U.S. President, whereas one of the reasons I watch "Madam Secretary" regularly (and, when it was still on, watched "Designated Survivor" as well) is to be reminded of a time when the U.S. was still being run by people with intelligence and common decency, whom I could respect even when I disagreed with them politically, who were obviously working for the common good and not just to aggrandize their own egos and enrich themselves and their friends. I'm a bit more sympathetic to opponents of vaccination than the writers of this show, but the main point about the immigration crisis as it's depicted here is that our leader's willful denial of climate change and reversal of his predecessor's inadequate but right-minded policies to deal with it is just speeding the total destruction of earth's environment as suitable for human life. The immigrants in this program are literally fleeing their homelands because rising sea levels are rendering their homelands non-existent. What, in the mind of the "Hollywood Fiction" author, are they supposed to do -- just drown?

Once again this show addresses real issues facing the world. Like climate deniers, anti-Vaccors are creating real problems for the rest of us. Even if a young child is vaccinated they are vulnerable until they've had a booster at age four.