Katherine Heighl, 'State Of Affairs' Review - Lately, there's been a lot of shows that deal with political issues. Still, none of them probably received worse reviews than this one.
Katherine Heigl made her comeback into a TV series as the main character after "Grey's Anatomy," which ended in 2010. Now, four years later, the actress plays "Charleston Tucker."
The show premiered on Monday, Nov. 17. And according to all reviews, it "should have stayed out."
New Republic's title to the review already is, "'State of Affairs' Won't Save Katherine Heigl's Free-Falling Career." Basically, if that isn't an incredibly low-blow, then I am not sure what could be.
The story in "State of Affairs" is about Charleston Tucker, who used to be a CIA officer and becomes the president's daily briefer. Apart from this, she navigates her life also and the drama unfolds in both senses.
Still, the show already begins with an unparticular scene.
"Do you consider yourself sexually responsible?" is the first question that Katherine Heigl's character gets asked by her therapist. She answers, "Occasionally" and this already dictates a lot of how the series is going to go.
Like Esther Breger already said in New Republic, it already shows that the character is a "complicated" or a "wrecked" one because she sleeps with countless men and gets insanely drunk.
Basically, it dictates that she will probably have to "fix" herself while "fixing" the country's issues by helping the president, who is played by Alfre Woodard.
And exactly why does everyone know or sense that this is going to happen throughout the series? Probably because it's been done a thousand times before. Proving that "State of Affairs" doesn't stand-out and that could be its ultimate failure, if the reviews are anything to go by.
According to Deadline, even if the show has a "prime" spot because it comes after "The Voice" and the schedule is actually an incredibly convenient one to have a good rating; that still won't happen, apparently.
"State of Affairs" is seemingly doomed to go downwards other than upwards, both in ratings and reviews.
Even in IMDB, which tends to give an opportunity to TV shows to flourish by providing them with at least a medium rate, it has a 5,5.
Apart from that, the user reviews condemn "State of Affairs" completely. The last one gave the show one star and said with it, "if I could put a -1, I would."
Basically, I suppose the only words to add about "State of Affairs" and Katherine Heigl is that we wish her good luck. It looks like she and the show are going to need it.
