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Its hard to sum up the second season ofThe Politicianbetter than that strip of paper.
It is a show thats ostensibly about politics and the people who run for office.
It scoffs at the naive idea that it might actually matter what an elected official believes in.
Most of all,The Politicianis a show about ambition, about how the ends justify the means.
Payton is dating two nearly identical blonde women.
That soundsreallyfun!I know it does.
Plus,The Politicianfigures, if one throuple is good, more must be better!
So it turns actually were in a throuple into a returning plot development.
What if Payton … isalsoin a throuple.
SomehowThe Politicians own political convictions are even less sincere.
Its possible, I think, to readThe Politicianas attempting to undermine that treatment of politics.
Payton Hobart is not being presented as a saint.
The Politicianclearly sympathizes with Payton, though.
Translated into the real world, that kind of farce does not feel fun.
