This is why God invented ABC.

Yesterday was Flag Day, which is a patriotic miracle of a day for two reasons:

1. It's my anniversary with Roommate. As of yesterday, we've officially been cohabitating for three years. (I know, right? Yay for us!)

2. On this day of saluting our proud country, ABC aired the series finale of the best one-hour drama on network television, "Commander-in-Chief."

Point #2 is really what we're going to be focusing on here, because the creators of this awesome program pulled out every emotional stop for the finale, and this audience-abandoned show went out with a trumpet blast of glory. As the episode opens, we find President Mackenzie Allen (Geena Davis) re-opening a controversial political issue, following the death of a conservative Illinois senator who had blocked it in the past. Was it abortion rights? Gay marriage? Gun control? No, it was the E.R.A. Now, you can tell that this show is fiction when a sitting president finds the issue of guaranteeing- in writing- equal rights for all American women and girls to be a pressing one. I mean, let's face it, who needs to secure a better world for our daughters when there's money to be made and wars to wage, right? But Mac went on the stump for it, and as the hour-long episode ended, the E.R.A was just two states away from being ratified, with the obvious implication that it would pass, and Mac stepped out (after one killer speech/monologue... more on that in a minute) to thunderous applause from a gathered crowd.

Speaker of the House Nathan Templeton (Donald Sutherland), and a number of conservo mouthpiece characters on the show, decried the E.R.A. as uncessary, as an obsolete holdover idea from a different era. Templeton solidifed his hyper-right position, and declared his candidacy for the presidency, setting up a clash of the titans between Mac and he. But in their first town hall meeting on the issue, Mac calmly, with complete control, brought the issue down to the most human level... Having the first female president doesn't negate the issue, because it's not about American women who are already well-monied or opinionated or looked-after. It's about working mothers who earn 74 cents to a man's dollar, which is the current reality in America.

I have nothing but the utmost hugs for ABC, Geena Davis, and the "Commander-in-Chief" creators for sending this great series off with such a battle cry of an episode. I caught Roommate crying buckets. (I was in a red velvet cake-induced coma, so I couldn't register emotions.) I'd let my tear ducts flow if the American public would snap to and realize that a progressive, human series like this one- with a progressive, human agenda- is JUST what we need right now.

Way to go, guys. Way to go.
KEVIN :-)