Netflix has set a June 19th premiere date for the second season of Ryan Murphy’s dark comedy series “The Politician” and have announced that both Judith Light and Bette Midler will have major roles in the new episodes.
Ben Platt returns as Payton Hobart, a wealthy student from Santa Barbara who much navigate the most treacherous political landscape of all – high school – to follow his U.S. Presidential dream.
The second season will find Payton trying to “unseat Dede Standish (Light) 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 (Midler) at her side, Dede’s re-election was supposed to be easy.
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
Gwyneth Paltrow, Zoey Deutch, Lucy Boynton, Bob Balaban, David Corenswet, Julia Schlaepfer, Laura Dreyfuss, Theo Germaine, Rahne Jones, Jessica Lange, and Benjamin Barrett co-star on the series on which Murphy serves as writer, showrunner and executive producer.
Source: Deadline
