Salon.com > bill pullman http://www.salon.com Wed, 22 May 2013 20:11:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “1600 Penn”: A political satire that’s short on wonkiness, big on wackiness http://www.salon.com/2012/12/18/1600_penn_a_political_satire_thats_short_on_wonkiness_big_on_wackiness/ http://www.salon.com/2012/12/18/1600_penn_a_political_satire_thats_short_on_wonkiness_big_on_wackiness/#comments Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:06:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13148515 There are a lot of fictional politicians milling about the television these days. There’s Leslie Knope, State’s Attorney Peter Florrick, President Fitzgerald Grant, and Vice Presidents Selina Meyer and William Walden. Until recently, Kelsey Grammar was the mayor of Chicago on “Boss” and Sigourney Weaver was a version of Hillary Clinton on “Political Animals.” There are various Defense and State Department officials on “Last Resort,” a mayoral race in “Nashville,” and soon there will be all of Capitol Hill in Netflix’s forthcoming “House of Cards.” As of last night there are also the Gilchrists, America’s first family and the stars of “1600 Penn,” a new sitcom that sneak-previewed on NBC and will begin airing regularly in January.

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