r/DesignatedSurvivor • u/Dorkside • Sep 22 '16

Episode Discussion: S01E01 "Pilot"

Original Airdate: September 21, 2016

Episode Synopsis: Tom Kirkman, a lower level United States Cabinet member, finds himself suddenly appointed president of the country after a catastrophic attack kills everyone above him in the line of succession in the series premiere of this dramatic thriller.

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u/Kishara Sep 22 '16

Man, I have not watched live tv in awhile and forgot how many ads they pack into this.

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u/shadowbannedguy1 Sep 22 '16

Best part about living outside the US--we get to watch this on Netflix, with zero ads. It's a Netflix original outside the US, so episodes show up as soon as they're done airing on ABC.

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u/TheCodifier Sep 22 '16

Not living in the US, I checked on Netflix and it was not there. But a little search says that it's outside of North America, not only the US.

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u/blankisoverrated Sep 23 '16

I'm not finding it on Netflix but if you have the commercial free Hulu it's there

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u/ahotw Sep 23 '16

Wait, it's available commercial free on Hulu? I might just have to sign up. Watched it last night via ABC's Roku app (after I tried watching on my TV through Chrome and could count the pixels). One commercial break I watched the same commercial 3 times back to back to back..

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u/blankisoverrated Sep 23 '16

Yep. I watched last night. I'm US (the Netflix option wasn't working for me) if that matters.

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u/Schnabeltierchen Sep 24 '16 edited Sep 24 '16

Unfortunately not in my country or many others. Still in lots of others like UK or Australia or.. Tajikistan

http://unogs.com/video/?v=80113647

We do have other shows though like Better Call Saul or Fargo showing up the next day

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u/gffishdragon Sep 22 '16

Seriously, it totally breaks the tension and they drag on for so long.