"Seasoned Survivor" Season 3 Uses Docu Footage for Child Marriage Debate

during Designated Survivor Season 3, whenever a person brings to the attention of President Kirkman a video of a citizen's testimony, what he's looking at is never an actor in the process of read a scenario, but a real documentary.

Some of the topics covered throughout the 10 episode season (now available on Netflix) include opioid addiction and the exorbitant cost of life-sustaining medications, such as insulin.

"A mother whose child died of diabetes, opioid-dependent people, people who were part of a transgender therapy group …" It's always true, "says season 3 video clips from Neal Baer. "When people say to Kirkman why they do not vote [in the previous presidential election], they are non-actors telling us why they did not vote. "

Describing the incorporation of documentary footage into an episodic series as something "very different," says Baer, ​​"in my debut, I realized a pilot with John Wells in 1991, entitled Night life, which integrates documentary sequences with people who work all night. In the end, it was not detected by the NBC channel, but I had this virus in my ear since. "

Episode 1 of the new season ends on Kirkman, who presents a multitude of videos of Americans generally deprived of their rights. From there, the videos become more specific, starting from episode 2, with an American woman who describes in tears her badual badault as a 13-year-old wife. Build from a public relations story in which Kirkman involuntarily posed with a Saudi and his married wife (baduming that the girl girl), the episode exposes the harsh truths, including the legality of child marriage in all but two US (Delaware and New Jersey).

"I have not met anyone who knows that the child marriage rate in the United States is somehow equal to what is happening in Saudi Arabia," Baer said. "That's why this episode deals with badumptions, such as" Oh, my God, it must be worse, "and in fact it's not. These are all facts and actual numbers that are corroborated by the data we have. "

Baer actually shared this data with series consultant Eric Schultz, who was deputy press secretary to President Obama, asking why the issue had never caught the White House's attention. Eric said, "It was not on our radar. "I showed him the numbers, and he's like:"Whoa. It was not on our radar.

Even if that had in the White House on the radar, implementing the policy to change things, as illustrated on Designated Survivor, would be problematic and would face a surprising opposition. "As [Director of Social Innovation] According to Isobel, two of the more liberal organizations, the ACLU and Planned Parenthood, were against it, notes Baer. "And all this is true. It's all in California. "