
The original series is the first offering from Ryan Murphy's lucrative and exclusive development deal with the streaming giant, worth about $300 million over a five-year period.
The hitmaker is known for such popular, acclaimed and groundbreaking shows like Glee, American Horror Story, 9-1-1, Pose, Feud and American Crime Story, and now he's trying his hand at making politics funny for the streaming service.
Dear Evan Hansen's Tony-winning actor Ben Platt leads a cast of well known faces and newcomers, playing 'Payton Hobart', a wealthy Santa Barbarian with political ambitions.

Knowing that one day he'll be the U.S. President, before he can reach such lofty heights he need to navigate the most treacherous landscape of all, Saint Sebastian High School.
He'll do anything to get to be President of the Student Body and so will his ruthless classmates, who'll do anything to destroy his well-crafted image.
Before he can continue on his extraordinary path to success he'll need to outsmart his rivals (Lucy Boynton's 'Astrid'), and prove his political acumen.
Will his sexuality be his undoing, what other secrets will be exposed and what happens when things take a deadly turn on his way to the top?

Helping him on his journey is Gwyneth Paltrow as his mother, 'Georgina Hobert', whilst another regular Ryan Murphy collaborator, Jessica Lange, plays the grandmother of Zoey Deutch's character with cancer, 'Infinity Jackson'.
To say that this series is a huge priority for the streaming platform would be an understatement, and all these colourful billboards and street posters were spied along the Sunset Strip, Beverly Boulevard, Melrose Avenue, Santa Monica Boulevard, La Brea Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard from September 4 to September 7, 2019.
In addition to the abundance of witty and innuendo-laden ad creatives joining the skies of the Sunset Strip, Netflix has also pumped money into special extension billboards and 3D embellishment installations to catch passerby eyes around the sprawling city.
Stimulus packages, bipartisanship, domestic affairs, a moral deficit and nasty women, that's a lot of promises which sound awfully familiar from the campaign trail, well maybe not all of them.
This political satire makes a lot of promises, so let's hope unlike real politicians, the series can live up to them and make viewers laugh this fall television season.
UPDATED: The billboards keep coming for The Politician with a trio of frivolity joining the others along the Sunset Strip.
These vibrant ad creatives really do tap into the white privilege, corruption and collusion of the Trump era we live in.
Let's hope the new show itself entertains and provides some escape from the dark political times we're living through though.
UPDATED: Here's also a 'For your consideration' billboard for the show's debut season spotted along the Sunset Strip on November 2019, just in time for industry awards season.
Let's see if this phenomenal cast can garner as many nominations as the billboards there were to promote the series.
We are still on the lookout for a Politician billboard with my daughter Penelope on it. Let us know if you see any with a baby on it!
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