The Politician
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In the last episode, canceled was the word of the day.
Want to hear Bette Midler say the words spicy lube again and again?
Its title issupposedlyHail Mary, but come on, anyone whos seen it knows the truth.
The election nears, the stakes rise, and the lube, it is spicy.
Its entirely too much spicy lube.
This episode is utterly obsessed with the phrasespicy lube, to say nothing of the substance itself.
It wobbles past absurd and tumbles into a territory one might call grating.
Maybe five fewer recitations of spicy lube and Hail Mary a.k.a.
Operation Spicy Lube would be simply energetic and appealingly dizzy, right up until it isnt.
Before addressing Georgina and Mrs. McCutcheon, lets just address the spicy lube head-on.
The bad day for the Standish campaign just gets worse.
Those crazy kids, theyre really in love.
That sense is underlined by Midler, turned up well past 11 in this episode.
They feel its both wrong to do that to Dede and will reflect poorly on Payton in future campaigns.
Its complicated, as is pretty much everything that Payton has to deal with in this episode.
The latter are much rarer, and all the highlights here belong to the former category.
Georgina sits in her home sauna!
Georgina forgets young people, its a tick she has!
Georgina wants to ban all plastic!
Georgina philosophizes about politics!
She uses the phrase mad respect!
She asks intrusive questions about polyamory!
Still, in two scenes, Heather Burns steals the episode right out from under everyone else involved.
Her frank delivery of the things Tino whispered to Mrs. McCutcheon while she was in a coma its divine.
Theres something enormously appealing about someone who simply does not give a fuck, and thats Mrs. McCutcheon.
Most of the best scenes and stories inThe Politicianshare some DNA with these scenes.
With Georgina, its a self-aware wink and sense of fun that tends to counterbalance the shows self-serious streak.
And as for the things that dont work well, theyre often spicy lube.
Too much, too often, without rhyme or reason, overdoing it without justifying its existence.
c’mon, c’mon dont use meditation as a substitute for birth control.
Payton was wrong to cut off McAfees report on Hadassahs shoes.
I want much more about the shoes.
Give us a standalone episode about the shoes.
Teddy Sears screaming into that pillow: very funny and probably a useful GIF.
