Political Animals Reviews
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Summary Divorced former First Lady and current Secretary of State Elaine Barrish (Sigourney Weaver) balances crises in politics and within her own family.
Season 1 Premiere: Jul 15, 2012
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Summary Divorced former First Lady and current Secretary of State Elaine Barrish (Sigourney Weaver) balances crises in politics and within her own family.
Fast-paced, darkly funny and scathingly sharp, Political Animals seamlessly blends family drama with real-world issues, including an early crisis in the Middle East.
Political Animals is a welcome escape from the current campaign grind, leaving us already hoping for a second term.
It's more interesting when Elaine takes aim at the easy-target man's world she inhabits.
Political Animals crams elements of conventional TV fare into a blender and makes something that is wildly different and kind of liberating.
Political Animals may be super-fun, but it is also superficial.
This is more soap opera than satire, an intermittently entertaining but not exactly subtle look at the private and public lives of one extremely colorful family.
Wanting soap and dirt--a lot of dirt--he [creator Greg Berlanti] has fashioned something that's watchable only if you completely divorce it from the realm of credibility.
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Production Company:
- Berlanti Productions
- Laurence Mark Productions
- Warner Horizon Television
Initial Release Date: Jul 15, 2012
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-14
Online Film & Television Association
Primetime Emmy Awards
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations