Templeton For President!

As I write this, it’s 11:30 on Wednesday night and since my blog is currently having technical difficulties, you probably won’t see this for a few days; but I’m so worked up I have to write this now.

There’s no doubt that “Commander In Chief” has been the most frustrating show of the season and tonight’s season/series finale was the most frustrating yet…

Why? Because it was the best episode yet. In fact, I actually cheered out loud twice.

The first time was when Nathan Templeton (Donald Sutherland) finally announced his presidential candidacy in a shrewdly planned “spontaneous” announcement designed to steal the President’s thunder. The second time was when the newly-fired-by-the-President Dickie MacDonald (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) strutted into Templeton’s office. “Aren’t you in the wrong room, young man?” Templeton asked. Dickie’s response, “Am I?” as Templeton gave him a sly smile, setting up a wonderful partnership.

There were other great stories too as Becca, the President’s daughter, finally met her cyber-boyfriend, who happens to be Templeton’s intern. We met Kelly’s ex-boyfriend and his new wife and Jim told the President he was interested in being her Vice-President.

Plus, as a bonus, we got a guest appearance by Sarah Clarke, who played Nina on “24.” She joins Leslie Hope (Teri, “24”) as the second of Kiefer Sutherland’s co-stars to appear with his father on “Commander.” You have to like their style.

In fact, I was so wrapped up in the episode, I almost forgot that none of these stories are going anywhere because the show is dead—murdered by the executives at ABC. I still can’t believe they renewed “What About Brian?” and let this one go. Did they not see how good those last three episodes were?

There’s talk that the show will be resurrected through one or two TV movies, and I certainly hope that’s the case—but only if the entire cast comes back to do them.

Especially now that Dickie has come over to the dark side.

Stay tuned…