From the creators of 'Glee,' season 2 of 'The Politician' is an out-of-touch blend of zany soap opera hijinks and shallow political activism.
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He was sparked back to life by his high school sweetheart and band of merry followers to run for New York Senate against incumbent Dede Standish (Light).Though only a glimpse at Light’s Senate Majority Leader was shown in the final episode of season 1, she and chief of staff Hadassah Gold (Bette Midler) are in every single episode of season 2 going punch for punch against Payton in the race for the senate seat. It’s not a Brexit-level political catastrophe, but it’s certainly a ropey second term.© 2020 NME is a member of the media division of. Season 2 of Netflix's The Politician is a nail-biting one just like its predecessor, with Ben Platt's Payton going neck and neck with Judith Light's Dede for New York State Senator. What is perhaps worse than having only a limited amount of smear to go around in a campaign is the conversations around the unwillingness of either party to use it to their advantage. But by the end of the season I could not tell you more than one fact that separated them from each other.The most frustrating part of watching season 2 was the failure to deliver on the tiniest threads of hope in season 1. Episode 2 of The Politician Season 2 starts with Astrid meeting Hadassah again to discuss Payton after finding out he has met with a New York Times reporter. It turns out, though, that a show can be snappier while still being remarkably dull, and for The Politician, that’s largely because it has zero conviction in the full wackiness of its own premise. The test was right here with only seven episodes to tell this leg of Payton’s run to the White House. With only nine months between seasons, the show could probably have benefited from an extended pre-production phase.
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He was sparked back to life by his high school sweetheart and band of merry followers to run for New York Senate against incumbent Dede Standish (Light).Though only a glimpse at Light’s Senate Majority Leader was shown in the final episode of season 1, she and chief of staff Hadassah Gold (Bette Midler) are in every single episode of season 2 going punch for punch against Payton in the race for the senate seat. It’s not a Brexit-level political catastrophe, but it’s certainly a ropey second term.© 2020 NME is a member of the media division of. Season 2 of Netflix's The Politician is a nail-biting one just like its predecessor, with Ben Platt's Payton going neck and neck with Judith Light's Dede for New York State Senator. What is perhaps worse than having only a limited amount of smear to go around in a campaign is the conversations around the unwillingness of either party to use it to their advantage. But by the end of the season I could not tell you more than one fact that separated them from each other.The most frustrating part of watching season 2 was the failure to deliver on the tiniest threads of hope in season 1. Episode 2 of The Politician Season 2 starts with Astrid meeting Hadassah again to discuss Payton after finding out he has met with a New York Times reporter. It turns out, though, that a show can be snappier while still being remarkably dull, and for The Politician, that’s largely because it has zero conviction in the full wackiness of its own premise. The test was right here with only seven episodes to tell this leg of Payton’s run to the White House. With only nine months between seasons, the show could probably have benefited from an extended pre-production phase.