Is anyone watching that new American political show on the television? I stumbled across it the other day. It's a bit like the Office, you cringe and laugh at the same time. There's this orange-skinned character with doofus hair playing the new President. All he does is sit in the Oval Office and tweet random stuff, occasionally sticking his put to yell at people, and complain about not being in New York. He basically has no self-awareness at all. All the staffers are trying to avoid him because he's apparently a 'pussy grabber' but will pretty much grab anything that has legs. He's brilliantly played. Dunno who the actor is, I'm sure he's been in something else. He has this mad campaign manager who just comes up with brilliant phrases like 'alternative facts' and likes punching people. She makes Julia-Louis Dreyfus look like an amateur. Best though is the press secretary, he basically gets told every episode to stand there and repeat obvious lies over and over, trying to gloss over them by shouting 'next question' and pointing to someone else every time the questions get heated.
I sincerely recommend it. OK, you have to suspend belief a little, but I tell you, whoever scripted it has put Armando Iannucci out of work. Car-crash TV at its best. Hopefully it won't get cancelled mid-season, that would be such a huge disappointment.
