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Battleground - Political junkies rejoice
Quid
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http://www.hulu.com/battleground
Battleground is a mockumentary dramedy television series created by J. D. Walsh streamed on Hulu. The show follows a group of political campaign staffers working to elect a dark horse candidate to the U.S. Senate in the battleground state of Wisconsin.
The series chronicles the inner workings of a Democratic Party primary campaign for a U.S. Senate seat in Wisconsin. Led by campaign manager Chris "Tak" Davis, the team battles against corrupt politicians and staff infighting while campaigning for a distant third-place candidate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S6ewwutB8UBattleground is absolutely brilliant. The best I can describe it as is a cross between Parks and Rec, The Office, and a touch of The West Wing. The series is shot like an actual documentary with the documenters having a realized role throughout it. The characters come off as real people and not caricatures which leads to them tugging at your heart strings as they either succeed or fail.
Where can you watch this show? Not through your old fashioned television catching radio waves out of the aether. Battleground was produced in house at Hulu. Yeah, the website everyone just a few years ago thought might be an okay supplement to cable is now making critic lauded television. Who knew? Point is that's where you'll find it.
As far as I know they're only going to have the one season. It's something of an experiment for Hulu to build up their viewer base and this is their first attempt at original programming. And as far as I'm concerned they've slammed it out of the park.
The baseline here is if you love politics (Which is roughly all of you) this is a free show you should watch.
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I liked it a lot, although there were some cringe-inducing moments that could rival that of The Office. I could do without those and stick to the more serious/genuinely funny stuff, but it's often one of the dangers of this particular genre of television.
One very odd thing about this show is that, due to it being on Hulu, when I started watching it, I wondered if it was a show built for specific geographical locations. The Madison stuff seemed like it could have been subbed out from time to time with other mid-sized Midwestern cities, and I honestly thought there might be other versions of this show running around, depending on where you lived. I was excited to hear that this wasn't the case and that it truly did focus on Wisconsin.
I'm excited to see where they go from here, and I hope we end up getting a second season, but somehow I doubt that's going to happen.
Hopeless Gamer
Hopeless Gamer
So as a person interested in working on campaigns, I probably don't need to watch this with my girlfriend. :-p
Take plenty of pictures so she remembers what you look like.
Also it will give her something to burn in six months.
I've only seen two episodes and the fact that the candidate isn't kept in a windowless room making fundraising phone calls for 10 hours a day is kind of unrealistic -- oh wait, the third episode just started and the campaign manager is talking about why he needs call time on the schedule, I take it back! The asshole husband is pitch perfect.
Great find Quid!
The other campaign manager is slime too but he's at least intelligent, competent slime.
I feel like what they did is take everything terrible about the candidate and use it as their loathsome, spiteful clay to mold a fat and unlikable husband so that you as an audience member wouldn't find yourself hoping the campaign would fail. Every sentence that spews out of his maw is something I've heard a candidate say before.
Uncanny.
Time to take a nice long break.