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IMDb rating 7.5
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Critic rating 6.9

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Critic Richard Roeper
rated 6

...it can be great fun watching these audaciously amoral clowns, many of them obscenely rich, stumbling and bumbling about and smugly thinking they’re the smartest people in the room when in fact they’re not, they’re really, really not.

Read full review at Chicago Sun-Times
Critic Kelly Lawler
rated 8

...a relief to watch, because it manages to make fiction stranger than life once more. That is no small achievement...

Read full review at Usa Today
Critic Brad Newsome

Murphy & Co are at the peak of their powers, and their granular mastery of character and narrative enables them to toss in the kind of goofy curve-balls they need to keep things funny without their own singular spell.

Read full review at The Sydney Morning Herald
Critic Shannon Miller
rated 5

...what it does manage to show—which is, as Murphy himself once described, “wealthy people behaving badly”—is enough of a reason to tune in and have a good enough time.

Read full review at The A.V. Club
Critic Helen Brown
rated 10

...Murphy gets my vote.

Read full review at The Telegraph
Critic Michael Haigis
rated 8

...balances well-honed satire and melodramatic frenzy.

Read full review at Slant Magazine
Critic Lucy Mangan
rated 10

Murphy’s dazzling Netflix series plays gloriously with the inauthenticity that has become standard in the corridors of power.

Read full review at The Guardian
Critic The Sydney Morning Herald Staf

Murphy & Co are at the peak of their powers, and their granular mastery of character and narrative enables them to toss in the kind of goofy curve-balls they need to keep things funny without their own singular spell.

Read full review at The Sydney Morning Herald

Cast & Crew

Gwyneth Paltrow
As Georgina Hobart
Bette Midler
As Hadassah Gold
Zoey Deutch
As Infinity Jackson
Judith Light
As Dede Standish
Ben Platt
As Payton Hobart

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The Politician is a comedy series that follows the story of Payton Hobart, a wealthy high school student who has always dreamed of becoming the President of the United States. Set in Santa Barbara, California, the first season sees Payton running for student body president against his popular and athletic classmate, River Barkley. With the help of his ambitious friends, Payton chooses Infinity Jackson, a cancer patient and victim of Munchausen by Proxy disorder, to be his vice-president. The second season takes place in New York City and Albany, where Payton is running for a seat in the New York State Senate against incumbent Majority Leader Dede Standish. The series explores themes of ambition, morality, and political strategy as Payton navigates the treacherous landscape of high school politics.

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