This was an old episode that I
had to get caught up on. I have not seen it as I recorded it on VHS. Why did I
do that? You see, CBS aired a football game that overran its programs. I
started the tape recording the show 60 Minutes while missing the beginning of
the Simpsons. (Thanks to the power of reruns, I was able to see the beginning
of that Simpsons episode.) The delay was at a weird time, which is why I recorded
it on VHS instead of my laptop. The tape starts with a set of commercials
before we reach the second segment of a 60 Minutes episode. After that, then we
get to the Madam Secretary episode that I will blog about. It was the episode
involving torture, I think.
Well, the matter of me getting
caught up on VHS tapes can depend on how far behind I am on them. If there
comes a certain time when I have a pile of six different tapes that need to be
watched, then I ignore any other TV shows on DVD that I watch and get caught up
so that the pile is at a more manageable number. On 2-5-2015, I have six tapes
to get caught up on, so I start getting caught up on them. I will not watch
anything else for a while until I can get to a lower number. On 2-28-2015, I’m
able to reinstate the rolling list, but that might not last too long, depending
on whether I have to tape a lot before I can watch more of the tapes.
Using this method, I was able
to find the Madam Secretary episode in question. It aired at a 40 minute delay.
I don’t know when I’ll post this blog update, but it shouldn’t be too long.
Since it is an older episode, that might be part of the problem with me not
knowing when to post it since it is late. But I’m sure I’ll post it at some
point in time. I also hope that I can get more caught up on VHS recorded shows
so I can get back to rolling and watching other shows of mine. I just hope that
this blog post isn’t too much better than it otherwise might be. Why worry
about it being better? Well, if most of the posts are one quality, then I don’t
want it to be a better quality in the case that I recorded it on VHS instead of
the usual TV tuner. Watching it on VHS would give me more time to blog about
the episode while watching the episode. If you don’t believe me, then check up
my Survivor blog. The posts from before the twenty-seventh season would have
delayed posts that I watched on my laptop. The VHS option became better from
the twenty-seventh season onward so I could give more detailed posts and stay
updated with the confessional count. Link to that blog: http://adamdeckersurvivor.blogspot.com/
Now we get to the episode. We
start with a news story of a foreign city taken over by ISIS. (For the record,
it is pronounced eye-sis, not is-is. If you’ve never heard of it and only read
it, then you might get that wrong.) There is also a plot that relates to what
happened to the original secretary of state, a mystery that surrounds the show.
Let’s face it, with a lot of new shows, you need a recurring mystery like that
to get people to come back week after week. Elizabeth acts like a mother to her
daughter Stevie. There is then a lockdown due to a shooter in the area. They
are at the white house, right?
So we get to more of the
situation. “You might be some deranged guy’s hostage.” “Well, technically, I’m
my mom’s hostage.” That’s the exchange that Stevie has about not being able to
get to work on time. Also, I should apologize in advance if I ever point out
flaws in the show because I am a fan of CinemaSins and that makes me think
about various flaws in shows and movies a lot.
It’s hard to summarize a lot
of what happened. The subplot with Daisy’s romance seemed strange at best. I’m
glad that they are trying to focus on other characters in the show, but it
didn’t seem well developed to me. Daisy’s current lover meets her old lover.
That leads to a bit of conflict. Also, the conflict with the shooter is taking
place at the state department building and not at the white house, I think.
Elizabeth also confesses to her daughter that she approved the torture of a
man. This episode was less about torture than I thought that it was.
A strange subplot on Stevie
possibly donating her eggs is part of this episode. Weird, huh? But I guess
without a woman’s eggs, none of us could be here. But I would never donate
sperm. Not unless it was in the conventional way by having sex with my wife. Of
course, I’d have to find a wife first. But I’ll worry about that later. Daisy
no longer has a fiancée which might put her back with her old lover whom she
still works with. Why can’t I remember his name? Anyways, this episode explains
why Stevie hates her mother for a while, although that might be solved by now.
