Five things to watch this weekend
Ranging from dark high-school comedy to real-life documentaries, here is a list of binge-watching pleasures
04 October 2019 - 05:08
The Politician — Netflix
Ryan Murphy debuts on Netflix with his satire of American politics set in the world of an exclusive high school. It owes much to the work of Wes Anderson and Alexander Payne but has enough camp and soap opera melodrama to give it a distinctively Murphy feel. Its characters are not always likable and display the ruthlessness of early Bret Easton Ellis rich kids, but overall it’s a well-executed and visually sumptuous piece of dark comic entertainment...
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