Political Animals
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 45 Ratings
- Summary: Divorced former First Lady and current Secretary of State Elaine Barrish (Sigourney Weaver) balances crises in politics and within her own family.
- Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure
- Show Type: Ended
- Season 1 premiere date: Jul 15, 2012
- Episode Length: 60
- Air Time: 10:00 PM
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Positive: 19 out of 33
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100Fast-paced, darkly funny and scathingly sharp, Political Animals seamlessly blends family drama with real-world issues, including an early crisis in the Middle East.
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80Political Animals can be slightly murky when it comes to invoking issues and ideologies. But when it comes to the microlevel of politics, the misdirection and machinations politicians employ to satisfy their own ambitions and thwart those of others, Political Animals is peerless.
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60Think the Clintons meet "Dallas" in D.C. And that, for six episodes, may be enough.
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25it's a clanking, clattering collection of collagenous clinkers--of dialogue so inept, of acting performances so preposterous, of plot points so cliched that the only question worth posing is why someone of Weaver's stature would be caught anywhere near a turkey like this.
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