We had about beaten this thing to death on various Facebook submarine sailor forums when just lately our British colleagues began to see episodes of this on the other side of "the pond" and added a new wave of derision. The simple fact is, if you want contemporary nuclear-submarine-based fantasy watch THE HUNT FOR RED October. CRIMSON TIDE was bad and this is only worse.
Anyway, the average actual, real-life submariner falls into two categories on this: he either thinks it is complete garbage and wants it off the air as of yesterday as defamation of character directed at him and his shipmates, past, present, and future, or he thinks it is complete garbage but since it is "only a TV show" he doesn't care if it goes off the air. Few have reported being able to make it through an entire episode, let alone found it entertaining even as another hopelessly contrived soap opera. It's too ridiculous on essentially every level.
My own view is that it is just VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA all over again but this time with the world's most half-baked take on national and international politics on the one hand and old-fashioned T&A on the other in place of the guys in monster costumes and related bad sci- fi drivel of the original. If the public's mentality is so degraded that this thing can survive long on broadcast television it is no wonder American electoral politics are in such a mess. I give this one star only because there is no zero-star rating available on IMDb.
Anyway, the average actual, real-life submariner falls into two categories on this: he either thinks it is complete garbage and wants it off the air as of yesterday as defamation of character directed at him and his shipmates, past, present, and future, or he thinks it is complete garbage but since it is "only a TV show" he doesn't care if it goes off the air. Few have reported being able to make it through an entire episode, let alone found it entertaining even as another hopelessly contrived soap opera. It's too ridiculous on essentially every level.
My own view is that it is just VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA all over again but this time with the world's most half-baked take on national and international politics on the one hand and old-fashioned T&A on the other in place of the guys in monster costumes and related bad sci- fi drivel of the original. If the public's mentality is so degraded that this thing can survive long on broadcast television it is no wonder American electoral politics are in such a mess. I give this one star only because there is no zero-star rating available on IMDb.