Just finished marthoning Political Animals. Jesus fuck is that good. Seriously, a drama about politics and a dysfunctional family that I not only enjoyed, but which brought tears to my eyes in the finale?! OMFG. Ungh. And it’s remarkably feminist too, spoilers on why and on other stuff below.

( Feminism and spoilers )

Final verdict: This is a must-watch for everyone. And at 6 episodes around 50 minutes each, it's not prohibitively long. I watched around two episodes earlier this week, and the remaining four today. As I summarized it on Tumblr,

Come for the gay crying strung-out drug addict Sebastian Stan, stay for the powerful feminist women in an unfair world.

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