Review: Our Cartoon President “Hiding Joe Biden”

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

Biden starts wanting to control his media appearances instead of Chuck and Nancy, so they send him on a trip with Hillary, which ends with them both in the desert. Meanwhile, Don Jr attempts to finally get dirt on Hunter Biden but ends up making his very first friend.

OUR TAKE

Huh, we have another episode where Trump more or less takes a back seat. That’s partially due to them finally making use of him being sick, but I have to wonder how much of that worked into what they already had planned. With the major players in both sides fully established, they might be just using the time they would need to flesh out the Democratic side, though you would think that wouldn’t be at the cost of the initial group they started with. Which I guess is where the stuff with Don Jr comes in. I guess you could say it was KINDA heartwarming for two weird sons of the two presidential candidates to bond over lying to each other, but then the real world stuff comes into your mind and it muddies the waters. And helps my theory that making the two candidates have the same voice actor wasn’t entirely an accident. Also gotta love how they basically redid the vice presidential debate that they already had last time so they could make a gag about the REAL vice presidential debate, which ended up funnier than what THEY wrote. Almost as if this was a pretty futile effort to try and make something that was somehow funnier and sadder than ACTUAL REALITY right now.

With only four episodes in the season to go (and three until election day), I’m pretty sure the conflict between Trump and Biden specifically will come into the forefront again for the final stretch. Heck, maybe they’ll make use of that virtual debate that Trump is too much of a baby to attend. Then again, these two don’t have much in the way of chemistry as rivals, so the show tends to just fall back on them being two near senile old men that their respective parties just bank on to stay in power. Which is commentary in its own right I suppose, it’s just kinda more sad than funny when it comes down to it. But hey, at least we’re getting closer to the end and hopefully we won’t have to talk about Trump as anything more than a bad joke after a certain point. With that in mind, though, I can’t imagine this show will age all that well as the years go by, but we still have to see it through to the end, I guess. And while I’m here, REGISTER TO VOTE!