The Politician

• Genre: Satire, Comedy drama, Political satire, Cringe comedy
• Created by: Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan
• Starring: Ben Platt, Zoey Deutch, Lucy Boynton, Bob Balaban, David Corenswet, Julia Schlaepfer, Laura Dreyfuss, Theo Germaine, Rahne Jones, Benjamin Barrett, Jessica Lange, Gwyneth Paltrow, Judith Light, Bette Midler
• Opening theme: "Chicago" by Sufjan Stevens
• Composer: Mac Quayle
• No. of seasons: 2
• No. of episodes: 15
• Executive producers: Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan, Alexis Martin Woodall, Ben Platt, Gwyneth Paltrow
• Producers: Kenneth Silverstein, Todd Nenninger, Lou Eyrich, Eryn Krueger Mekash, Kristin Bernstein, Jeff Dickerson
• Cinematography: Nelson Cragg, Simon Dennis, Tim Norman
• Editors: Shelly Westerman, Danielle Wang, Peggy Tachdjian, Franzis Muller, Erick Fefferman, Lisa Trulli ,Lauren Stewart, Tom Kipley
• Running time: 28–62 minutes
• Production companies: Prospect Films, Brad Falchuk Teley-Vision, Ryan Murphy Television, 20th Television
• Network: Netflix
• Release: September 27, 2019 –June 19, 2020

The first season is set at the fictional Saint Sebastian High School in Santa Barbara, California. Payton Hobart, who has dreamed of being elected President of the United States since childhood, is running for student body president against the popular and athletic River Barkley. Payton, under the direction of his ambitious friends McAfee Westbrook, James Sullivan, and Alice Charles, chooses Infinity Jackson, a cancer patient and victim of Munchausen by Proxy disorder, to be his vice-president. Meanwhile, River, under the direction of his girlfriend Astrid Sloan, chooses Skye Leighton, a gender-nonconforming black classmate, to be his vice-president.

The second season is set in New York City and Albany, New York. Payton, now a student at New York University, is running for a seat in the New York State Senate against incumbent Majority Leader Dede Standish. Payton, under the direction of his former classmates and climate activist Infinity Jackson, runs an ecocentric campaign. Standish, under the direction of her conniving campaign manager Hadassah Gold, runs a more conservative campaign. Meanwhile, Payton's adoptive mother, Georgina Hobart, having also become a politician on a whim, is running to be Governor of California.

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