It's so interesting seeing the narratives even before Trump.
In the show's timeline, Obama is President but they never mention him or "speak truth to power" to the White House.
The first 3-4 episodes surround the Republicans taking control of the house during the midterms. Tons of scaremongering about The Tea Party.
Saw Waterson plays an executive character that thinks he's the good guy smearing all the GOP newly-elected candidates and makes an analogy to stopping Joe McCarthy as if he were Hitler.
The network execs are portrayed as Republicans who are trying to protect their rich friends even though their fictional network is obviously an ABC/CBS/CNN/MSNBC direct competitor.
The first episode is about the BP Deepwater Horizon oilspill and fire in 2010. But the narratives are about negligence on Haliburton's part selling faulty concrete and not enough government oilrig inspectors. But Obama or the Dems aren't even mentioned.
When Democrats were in charge, everyone was trying to do their best for the country, whatever they thought that meant.
Eventually it looked like the Republicans would get into office, and the plot changed to "the capitol is occupied by the most evil and sinister people on the planet."
But the narratives are about negligence on Haliburton's part selling faulty concrete and not enough government oilrig inspectors. But Obama or the Dems aren't even mentioned.
How could they be mentioned? Like with every single scandal in the entirety of the Obama administration, Barack learned about it when all of us did from CNN.
It's so interesting seeing the narratives even before Trump.
In the show's timeline, Obama is President but they never mention him or "speak truth to power" to the White House.
The first 3-4 episodes surround the Republicans taking control of the house during the midterms. Tons of scaremongering about The Tea Party.
Saw Waterson plays an executive character that thinks he's the good guy smearing all the GOP newly-elected candidates and makes an analogy to stopping Joe McCarthy as if he were Hitler.
The network execs are portrayed as Republicans who are trying to protect their rich friends even though their fictional network is obviously an ABC/CBS/CNN/MSNBC direct competitor.
The first episode is about the BP Deepwater Horizon oilspill and fire in 2010. But the narratives are about negligence on Haliburton's part selling faulty concrete and not enough government oilrig inspectors. But Obama or the Dems aren't even mentioned.
The same thing with The West Wing.
When Democrats were in charge, everyone was trying to do their best for the country, whatever they thought that meant.
Eventually it looked like the Republicans would get into office, and the plot changed to "the capitol is occupied by the most evil and sinister people on the planet."
How could they be mentioned? Like with every single scandal in the entirety of the Obama administration, Barack learned about it when all of us did from CNN.