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Title: The Common Defense (24 Mar 2019)
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| Episode cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Téa Leoni | ... | Elizabeth McCord | |
| Tim Daly | ... | Henry McCord | |
| Keith Carradine | ... | President Conrad Dalton | |
| Patina Miller | ... | Daisy Grant | |
| Geoffrey Arend | ... | Matt Mahoney | |
| Erich Bergen | ... | Blake Moran | |
| Sebastian Arcelus | ... | Jay Whitman | |
| Kathrine Herzer | ... | Alison McCord (credit only) | |
| Evan Roe | ... | Jason McCord (credit only) | |
| Wallis Currie-Wood | ... | Stephanie 'Stevie' McCord | |
| Zeljko Ivanek | ... | Russell Jackson | |
| Sara Ramirez | ... | Kat Sandoval | |
| Tracee Chimo Pallero | ... | Nina Cummings | |
| Murray Bartlett | ... | Australian Prime Minister Chris Lawson | |
| John Behlmann | ... | Aaron Davis | |
While Elizabeth is away, her staff tries to secure an international agreement to protect citizens who have been displaced due to global warming. Daisy and her daughter are caught up in a measles outbreak.
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?