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State of Affairs

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2014 | 1 seasons | 60 min | Drama

Monday Morning Maybeearly rating

Why it’s a Monday Morning Maybe

With just 26% on Rotten Tomatoes, a small audience and a quick end and almost no lasting buzz, this one could be a tough watch. Keep your phone handy.

Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.

Is it for you?

Who'll love it
Made for anyone who loves a strong character drama. If you loved Homeland or Lioness, start here.
The mood
Thoughtful and character-driven.
The pace
1 season: a few weeks of evenings, hour-long episodes, about 13 hours in all.
What might put you off
  • Rated TV-14. Probably too much for younger kids.
  • It was cancelled, so the story may not get a proper ending.

Each day the President is faced with dozens of life and death decisions, and to prioritize the biggest international crises facing the country, one top CIA analyst - Charleston Tucker - assembles the President's Daily Briefing. This list of the most vital security issues facing the nation brings with it moral and political judgment calls for Charleston and her trusted group of brilliant analysts at the agency. Aside from the political minefields she has to walk, Charlie has a close personal relationship with the President because she was once engaged to her son before a tragic terrorist attack took his life. Charlie survived that attack and is now determined to bring the perpetrators to justice. Navigating a complex personal life and a pressure-cooker profession is, of course, a challenge, and Charlie sometimes engages in boundary-pushing behavior to avoid facing her grief. But when the clock strikes 2 a.m., she is all about her job - protecting her nation, serving her president and still trying to get to the bottom of her fiancé's murder that will reveal itself as a shocking mystery.

How it earned its rating

  • CriticsWeak

    26% on Rotten Tomatoes, 43 on Metacritic

  • AudiencesNot counted

    Not measured yet: not enough ratings

  • AwardsWeak

    0 wins and 1 nomination from smaller awards and festivals

  • Reach & staying powerWeak

    Ran for 1 season and reached a small audience so far

  • Buzz & cultural impactWeak

    About 20K people sought it out in the past year

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Cast & crew

Created by Joe Carnahan

  • Katherine HeiglCharleston Tucker
  • Alfre WoodardPresident Constance Payton
  • Adam KaufmanLucas Newsome
  • Sheila VandMaureen James
  • Cliff ChamberlainKurt Tannen
  • Tommy SavasDashiell Greer
  • David HarbourDavid Patrick