The Politician - Reviews

...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.

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

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

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.

...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.

...Murphy gets my vote.

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

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.

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.

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.

...Zoey Deutch's glamorous take on Greta Thunberg is especially heavy-handed - but it injects the show with a much-needed dose of vim.

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

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

...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.

...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.

...Zoey Deutch's glamorous take on Greta Thunberg is especially heavy-handed - but it injects the show with a much-needed dose of vim.