I've finally caught up on this, and though I'll probably be watching the rest of the episodes, there sure seem to be a lot of missed opportunities and things that lose focus.
Like, the clinic. What exactly happened to the clinic during the 2 weeks the power has been out? They were making such a big deal about the clinic's power woes just in the previous episode, but this time not a peep. Now, motors are affected the least by an EMP, so they should be able to repair any shorts in the generator and get the power back on, but all that sophisicated medical equipment like the EKG monitor etc should be fried by now and impossible to fix.
And they didn't talk about ANYTHING getting repaired from the EMP. The lower tech something is, the easier it should be to repair. That tractor on the farm didn't look supermodern; farm folks should be used to fixing their own equipment.
And the satellite dish on the roof of the bar--they should have marked positions and tried a bunch of different satellites instead of sticking on that repeating loop one for so long. And when it went out after being on that presidential seal podium, she called up and said "keep moving it around"...but it had been stationary for a long time so I doubt anyone was on the roof at that moment.
The writers of this show aren't being careful enough. Well, I guess I just expect them to be better because of their serious subject matter. I'm much more willing to forgive errors in Heroes or Stargate SG-1 than I am in this.