Greg Berlanti’s genius is back tonight in USA’s limited series event Political Animals on USA at 10p.
Sigourney Weaver plays Elaine Barrish who is kind of Hillary Clinton, but instead of staying married to her cheating husband she tells the ex-President she wants a divorce on the night she concedes her bid to be President of the United States. Also instead of having a daughter she has two sons. One son (James Wolk) who is engaged to be married and the other one (Sebastian Stan) is the first openly out First Child and he has a secret that can hurt his family. That secret is being used a reporter (Carla Gugino) who will do anything to interview Secretary of State Barrish. Through that interview we learn more about the former First Lady, and behind the scenes we see just how tough she is and that the wrong person won.
Political Animals is an interesting drama that goes places no show has gone before. And Ellen Burstyn, who plays Barrish’s mom, is the cherry on top of this Sundae, I mean Sunday, mini-series
