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Review: The Politician, season 2

The Politician, season 2, returned to Netflix with the same ambitious politician engaged in a run for office, much like season 1. All the back-stabbing, conniving, bald-faced lying that we saw in season 1 returned as well.

Review: The Politician, season 1

1 Comment / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / October 4, 2019 / #eldersrock, Ben Platt, Bette Midler, Bob Balaban, Brad Falchuk, David Corenswet, Dylan McDermott, Gwyneth Horder-Payton, Gwyneth Paltrow, Helen Hunt, Ian Brennan, Janet Mock, January Jones, Jessica Lange, Joe Morton, Judith Light, Julia Schlaepfer, Laura Dreyfuss, Lucy Boynton, Martina Navratilova, Natasha Ofili, Rahne Jones, Russell Posner, Ryan J. Haddad, Ryan Murphy, season 1, The Politician, Theo Germaine, Women Directors, Zoey Deutch

The Politician, the latest production from Brad Falchuk and Ryan Murphy, is equal parts brilliant and scattered. It’s pretentiously adult but set in a high school. Thematically it jumps around from one idea to another and never quite lands. Ryan

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