With a few exceptions, such as same-sex marriage and the status of Chris Christie, “Alpha House” benefits from the fact that almost nothing gets done in Washington, which means Trudeau doesn’t have to worry for the most part that something he wrote last summer will be out of date in October.ĭavid Wiegand is The San Francisco Chronicle’s TV critic and assistant managing editor. There are even more real-life political and media figures making cameo appearances this year, including Andy Cohen, John McCain, Penn Jillette, Ed Rendell, Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie, David Axelrod, Grover Nordquist and Jane Pauley, who would qualify as a major “get” even if she weren’t married to the show’s creator. Then again, given that the Obamas recently had an uninvited guest in the White House who was armed with a knife, maybe the segment isn’t that unlikely. Peg Stanchion ( Janel Moloney) brandishing a pistol in the corridors of Congress and forcing a complete lockdown of the building. There’s also a rather funny but highly unlikely segment about ultraconservative Sen. president now in retirement, he cannot stop talking about how thrilled he is with “my Bush.” It’s also funny that when Laffer wins an original painting by a former U.S.
Horoscope for Friday, 12/10/21 by Christopher Renstrom.The Watts are obviously modeled on the real-life conservative king-making Koch brothers.Īs if Gil John doesn’t have enough on his plate with the revelation that someone he thought of as a protege is going to run against him, his dopey, starstruck daughter “Cee” Biggs ( Lila Newman) has signed up to be on a reality show about the “Real Daughters of DC,” with real-life DC daughter Abby Huntsman as one of her cast mates. Gil John Biggs ( John Goodman).Īlthough topicality trips up some of the jokes, others are spot-on, such as the use of drones by the megalomaniacal billionaire Watt brothers ( Todd Susman and Lee Wilkof) to meet secretly with Biggs to fund his primary campaign. Robert Bettencourt ( Clark Johnson) and North Carolina Sen. And a full-on lip-lock between the lovers in the middle of a press conference is supposed to shock people? If it’s a political press conference, and it is, it probably just woke them up at best.Īs fans of the first season know, Laffer and Guzman make up half of a quartet of senatorial housemates in Washington. If that line doesn’t feel completely out of date now, it will in a week or two. Louis Laffer ( Matt Molloy), who tells Julie that she is like “my own daughter, and no one wants to see their own daughter burn in hell for eternity.” There’s also an extended story arc about the romance between senatorial aides Katherine Sims (Natalie Gold) and Julie Carrell (Brooke Bloom) that supposedly scandalizes closeted Nevada Sen. OK, well that line may have been funny at the height of the New Jersey governor’s Bridgegate mess, but while he may not have entirely regained his GOP front-runner status, he’s at least made himself part of the conversation again.
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