Pilot

I am looking for more episodes to come out, the first one was funny. I really thought that John Goodman was great as a lazy senator who isn't all that concerned with his job and I really liked the house dynamic. It will be interesting to see where they head from this point but I felt the interpersonal dynamics of the show felt a bit like Boston Legal. I know that Gary Trudeau wrote this but it did really feel like he took some pointers from some other popular shows. There is certainly nothing groundbreaking or insanely funny in the show, but it was still very good overall. If you have 30 minutes or so to kill give it a chance.

The contempt for the Republicans hits you across the face like a hurdled brick. There is zero subtlety here. The parodies like "The Council for Normal Marriage" and the older senator ranting about climate change might be good enough for a 3-panel daily comic, but the jokes just die on screen. As another person commented, this needs a democrat in the house to at least provide some balance. And don't make all of the characters so stupid or so painfully cliché. I consider myself a progressive independent, but this doesn't endear me to Trudeau's politics. Treat the audience's intelligence with a little more respect and you may get an audience for this.

Would love to see a 3rd season. Particularly now in 2018 with Trump. There is much more GOP material.

Now with all the political shows on TV and Netflix, I expected something more intelligent and thought-provoking, but this was a one-sided anti-conservative propaganda. I forced myself to watch the whole pilot episode, but became uninterested after 5 minutes and really felt like I wasted my time finishing it. I consider myself mostly liberal too, and this insulted my intelligence. If Amazon thinks we're all liberal idiots who will laugh at anything anti-republican, then they really demonstrated it by producing this show. There was nothing particularly funny or original, it just poked fun at all the same old stereotypes of conservatives. I expect more from a studio trying to compete with the content Netflix is creating! Amazon is playing little league, while Netflix is advancing to the majors.

If you have respect for your own taste in shows/movies, I would not waste a minute on this junk.

I believe the show is awesome, and i believe it has great potential , short and sweet to the point , if they do get better writers, i think there would be nothing more adrenaline filling then a episode or episodes where they show congress having huge exhilarating debates filled with back stabs and special interest dealings , like a season trying to balance the country budget but at every turn something goes wrong or someone gets the short end of the stick , and have little law cases or family emergencies within the season, or have a scandal or something , I do believe this show has immense potential. Hopefully someone in there writing team may see this.