'Designated Survivor' Fans Are Calling out Canceled Netflix Series For 'Predicting' Coronavirus Pandemic in Season 3
With more and more people the world over in self-isolation in order to help slow the spread of [...]
Season 3 episode 8 of #DesignatedSurvivor is pretty much what we're going through now
— Goldie (@G0ldie_Mack) March 24, 2020
All I know is that I’m watching #DesignatedSurvivor, an episode that aired last year, and it’s preeeety similar to what’s going on now and the coronavirus. This is wild 😳
— Alexandra Donati (@DJAlexD_) March 9, 2020
Designated Survivor first premiered in September of 2016 and ran for the first two seasons on ABC. By May of 2018, the network canceled the series after two seasons, though it was picked up by Netflix the following September.
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#CoronaVirus reminds me of one of the episodes in #DesignatedSurvivor where a virus was created specially for people of color
— TshetlhanaYaBarolong🌻🌻🌻 (@BlaqViolet) March 9, 2020
After binge watching the final season of #DesignatedSurvivor on #Netflix the conspiracy theorist in me is coming out about this #Coronavirus 🤔
— Marsha Lawson (@MlawsonLawson) February 29, 2020
The third season of Designated Survivor premiered globally on Netflix in June of 2017. However, the streamer canceled the series a month later.
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If Thomas Kirkman was still #POTUS he and his staff would have beat #Covid_19 by supper time, on day one#designatedsurvivor
— MLS WORLD CUP CHAMPS 💙🌟🌟💚 (@golo808) March 20, 2020
Somehow #DesignatedSurvivor season 2 episode 3 has a pretty up to date topic. Unfortunately the current POTUS is more concerned about the economy and not too much about the people.
— Bernhard Kau (@2ndKauBoy) March 25, 2020
It didn't take long for fans of the show to compare the fictional administration's reaction to the current one, which has been consistently criticized over its handling of the pandemic.
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I'm waiting on the TV show #DesignatedSurvivor to move from fiction to real life...#Coronavirus
— Noel Dolan (@cybernoelie) March 22, 2020
Ok I've heard enough of Trump's lies abt #coronavirus .
— Lee O'Connor (@Ferwynne) March 23, 2020
I'm going back to binge-watching President Kirkman being... presidential. #DesignatedSurvivor
The difference being the outbreak in Designated Survivor turned out to be an elaborate bioterrorism plot, whereas the coronavirus is not.
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Bruh #DesignatedSurvivor season 3 predicted the corona virus situation we in rn last year 👀 @netflix what do you have to say for yourself?
— Kiyan Badkoubeh (@kjbexplorer) March 23, 2020
We need Tom Kirkman to save us from the coronavirus #designatedsurvivor
— Riddhi Patel (@riddhi413) March 17, 2020
It's not the first time comparisons like this have been made. After Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson announced they'd tested positive on March 12, a number of people pointed out some vague similarities between that and Hanks' cameo in The Simpsons Movie.
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Remember Designated Survivor? This is the UK remake. Instead of getting Tom Kirkman you’re getting #michaelgove 😬 #coronavirus #BorisJohnson #DesignatedSurvivor pic.twitter.com/lqnqSj0YJc
— Ronan O’Connor (@rpatrickoconnor) March 27, 2020
Keifer Sutherland trending
"YES - new season of Designated Survivor" my brain says instantly.
Nope - some shite about who will run the UK Govt should Boris et all croak of Coronavirus and why Keifer would do a better job 🙄#DesignatedSurvivor
— S a v a g e (@Keith_Sav) March 22, 2020
After news broke that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had also tested positive for coronavirus, the question of who his designated survivor began to circulate, which also drew some inevitable comparisons.
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