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Putting a tv critic hat on for a second:

I'm surprised to see Designated Survivor listed there, watching it felt like it was yanked from network TV and stuck on netflix. It has frequent recaps, obvious gaps where commercial breaks should be, and the same few ideas hyped through the season.

But I guess that's why netflix works, one person's trash is another person's treasure. We all find something that interests us.

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I agree, and I find that show one of the worst written big budget programs I've seen a long time. It is so full of cliche dialog, I had to stop watching after the second episode.

Designated Survivor is a network show, at least in the US.

That explains it, in the UK I thought it was branded as a "netflix original" which surprised me because as I said, it didn't feel like one. I could be wrong and perhaps it was just in the same list but styled as "netflix exclusive".

I'll be sure to check more closely next time I'm logged on.

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