TV series

The Politician

We promise you bi partisanship.

2019★ 7.0 · 232Ended2 seasonsComedy

Overview

Payton has known since childhood that he's going to be president. First he'll have to navigate the most treacherous political landscape: high school.

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Cast

Ben Platt
as Payton Hobart

Judith Light
as Dede Standish

Lucy Boynton
as Astrid Sloan

Zoey Deutch
as Infinity Jackson

Julia Schlaepfer
as Alice Charles

Laura Dreyfuss
as McAfee Westbrook

Theo Germaine
as James Sullivan

Rahne Jones
as Skye Leighton

Bette Midler
as Hadassah Gold

Gwyneth Paltrow
as Georgina Hobart

Brandon Win
as Connor

Crew

Sherri Berman Laurence
Makeup Department Head

Seasons

Season 1

Payton Hobart, a wealthy student from Santa Barbara, has known since age 7 that he's going to be president of the United States, but first he has to navigate the most treacherous political landscape of all, Saint Sebastian High School.

Episodes: 8

Season 2

Payton Hobart fights to unseat Dede Standish in the New York State Senate race. As a long-time incumbent and greatly admired Senate Majority Leader with no-nonsense Chief of Staff, Hadassah Gold at her side, Dede’s re-election was supposed to be easy, but Payton - who sees this as the next step on his path to the Presidency - must decide what kind of politician he ultimately wants to be in order to succeed, even if that means exposing secrets, lies, and a throuple.

Episodes: 7

Information

Community

7.0/ 10

232 TMDB votes

7.0

Created by: Ian Brennan, Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk,

First air date: 2019-09-27

Show status: Ended

Genres

Comedy

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