Ignore this review if you are part of ABC's target demographic (Grey's Anatomy, Revenge, Scandal, Nashville, ...) because this show is very much in that vein.
However, if you come to the show based on its ads, you will likely be very disappointed. It is a soap opera that makes absolutely no attempt to work within its supposed context, or to even leverage off its context. For example, some of the prominent errors could have been trivially avoided with a simple Wikipedia query. Many reviews talk about all the details, big and small, that this show got unnecessarily wrong. I spotted so many that my expectation is that it would be far quicker to list what it got right.
The characters are similarly ridiculous. My reaction to many of the male characters was that those parts were written for women. The third lead character Lt. Grace Shepard is played by an actress (Daisy Betts) who brings to mind Anne Hathaway in both appearance and mannerism, and this makes it hard not to notice that her story line seems inspired by "The Princess Diaries".
Even if your knowledge of the military and the Navy comes only from a couple of good movies or novels, you will constantly be saying "Wrong", "No way", "Stupid" and "Why the **** would s/he do that?".
And the politics underlying the events would seem absurd even if the national and international leaders were 14 year-old psychopaths.
I have to believe that ABC got a pitch for yet-another show that was a proxy for high school and asked to have it tweaked a little. Rather than school itself, how about a field trip? Not an airplane, but a cruise ship. And rather than the usual proxy settings (medical, legal, fashion,...), how about the military? Change that cruise ship to a submarine. And cruise to a exotic location, I know, a Pacific paradise.
However, if you come to the show based on its ads, you will likely be very disappointed. It is a soap opera that makes absolutely no attempt to work within its supposed context, or to even leverage off its context. For example, some of the prominent errors could have been trivially avoided with a simple Wikipedia query. Many reviews talk about all the details, big and small, that this show got unnecessarily wrong. I spotted so many that my expectation is that it would be far quicker to list what it got right.
The characters are similarly ridiculous. My reaction to many of the male characters was that those parts were written for women. The third lead character Lt. Grace Shepard is played by an actress (Daisy Betts) who brings to mind Anne Hathaway in both appearance and mannerism, and this makes it hard not to notice that her story line seems inspired by "The Princess Diaries".
Even if your knowledge of the military and the Navy comes only from a couple of good movies or novels, you will constantly be saying "Wrong", "No way", "Stupid" and "Why the **** would s/he do that?".
And the politics underlying the events would seem absurd even if the national and international leaders were 14 year-old psychopaths.
I have to believe that ABC got a pitch for yet-another show that was a proxy for high school and asked to have it tweaked a little. Rather than school itself, how about a field trip? Not an airplane, but a cruise ship. And rather than the usual proxy settings (medical, legal, fashion,...), how about the military? Change that cruise ship to a submarine. And cruise to a exotic location, I know, a Pacific paradise.