As it turns out, Ryan Murphy doesn’t really have anything new to say about politicians in ThePolitician
Photo: Adam Rose Critics agree that The Politician is bad. The first product of Ryan Murphy’s record-setting $300 million Netflix deal has been described as “hot garbage,” “irritating,” and “a mess.”
Murphy is, after all, one of the few of his ilk in Hollywood who offers more than lip service when it comes to hiring women, people of color, and queer people into the industry. An early adoptee of the newly trendy inclusion-rider concept, he launched the Half Initiative in 2016, an actually successful hiring system that helped achieve gender and racial parity within the ranks of his own vast spate of productions.
But, as it turns out, Murphy doesn’t really have anything new to say about politicians in The Politician. The show opens with Payton Hobart, the titular character played by Dear Evan Hansen’s Ben Platt, declaring: “I’m going to be president of the United States,” on the basis of an inflated sense of self he’s nursed since age 7 and an obsession with the historical prestige of the institution. The usual stuff.
I’m just wondering, though: Why? Why, when Murphy explained in a recent Hollywood Reporter interview that Platt’s character is a composite of Obama, Nixon, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, did he ultimately create a show about a Nixon? Why, as Vox’s Emily VanDerWerff writes, is Murphy’s politician basically “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reimagined as an anodyne white man”? As Daniel Feinberg asks, in a world where AOC is “the ultimate poster girl for youthful political hunger … who would have guessed...
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