What FP's David Rothkopf Really Thinks of TV Shows About DC
VEEP gets some high marks. State of Affairs? Ehhh Katherine Heigl might not be so happy.
Foreign Policy magazine’s CEO and editor, David Rothkopf, published an article yesterday ranking the 10 best shows about Washington, DC and foreign policy — hilarity ensued.
At the bottom of his list were shows so inaccurate, inauthentic, and unentertaining (NBC’s “The Blacklist”, Fox’s “Bones” and CBS’ “NCIS”) that they weren’t even worthy of grades.
Ouch.
The coup de grâce, however, was Rothkopf’s critique of NBC’s “State of Affairs” starring Katherine Heigl, which scored a whooping 4 out of 40.
“Katharine Heigl was once a movie star” is not a sentence you wanna read right off the bat if you’re Hiegl’s publicist. Rothkopf
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