EPISODE
SEASON
Madam Secretary - Season 1
It is an exciting drama and a strong political event in this exciting series. Elizabeth McCord is the US secretary of state who was chosen by the president after leaving her job as a CIA analyst. Elizabeth faces complex problems in the new position but will try to overcome her because of her knowledge of the Middle East, language skills, creative thinking and good knowledge of international diplomacy, and other specifications that qualify her to be in this position. The series begins when Elizabeth receives a hostile message threatening to publish classified documents leaked from the State Department. On the other hand, Henry will be put on the international negotiating table when his wife uses his job as a means of mediating a deal with Pakistan.
22 July 1969, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
13 September 1994, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
14 October 1973, Santa Maria, California, USA
12 September 1958, Chicago, Illinois, USA
17 May 1959, Rochester, New York, USA
30 May 1962, Chicago, Illinois, USA
22 May 1961, New York City, New York, USA
12 August 1941, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
September 18, 2014
Tea Leoni is terrific and it's great to see her back on TV, but even she can't make some of the clunkier stuff work.
August 15, 2014
Its three main ingredients are uninteresting separately and add up to less than the sum of their parts.
September 19, 2014
It's often good at the seemingly little touches, like the patter of sharp dialogue that fills in character, motivation and personality.
September 19, 2014
The problem is that Madam Secretary, at least through its first three episodes, is a pretty clunky enterprise.
September 19, 2014
I've seen The West Wing, was a big fan of The West Wing and this is no West Wing. If anything, it is the anti-West Wing or West Wing without the charm.
September 18, 2014
Madam Secretary starts off solidly, with an engaging performance by Téa Leoni. What may draw much of the attention with Sunday's premiere, though, is a jarring intersection between the show's plot and recent real-life events in the Mideast.
September 18, 2014
Instead of feeling pleasantly optimistic, Madam Secretary is just really, really dull, as if someone tried to make a counterweight to Scandal with only the boring parts-plus one shamelessly ripped-off conspiracy theory.
