peter-stead-740-486963 Review of The Politician

The Politician (2019–2020)

Bingeworthy to Cringeworthy in 5 episodes

[5/10 · 18 December 2019]

It started off great, a sort of college level microcosm of grown up politics, but soon it stopped trying to "say" anything, lost interest in the reason for River's suicide (and therefore the emotional backbone of the series) and became tied up in a multitude of subplots, repetitive story points, an insistence on including a death or near-death in every single episode, so that it ended up a sort of mish-mash of Glee and Jane the Virgin (with a score that reminded of the latter). By the end of episode 5 with my eyes glazing over, I decided to call it a day. A really wasted opportunity.