Review: Our Cartoon President “Election Day”

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

Donald Trump was the President. Was the Donald Trump the President? Yes, he was.

OUR TAKE

Wow, it suddenly feels so much easier to talk about this show! A shame that it is probably going to be put to bed now that the subject matter will no longer be in power. And yet you could see clear examples of the way this series handled the coverage of Donald Trump and his flunkeys kneecapping itself when real life could be so much funnier. For example, you may have heard about Trump’s campaign team booking the Four Seasons for a press conference to contest the Election Results…except instead of the expected Four Seasons hotel, it was actually some landscaping company that they likely booked by accident and then had to work backwards from in order to not look like even bigger jokes than they already were. As one tweet pointed out, not even the presidential satire Veep could’ve been this good. Maybe that says something about trying to so forcibly satirize situations like this and how real life will always have the possibility to be more tragic and hilarious than any attempt to force a joke. Still, this is a series that could only exist in this time of Donald Trump as president, and much like that, it may have been better to not have it at all, but we got it, and maybe some good came out of us having to deal with this weirdness.

As for a season, and potentially series finale, it’s…not great. They attempt to go the musical route but it’s really inconsistent and doesn’t really add much. All of these caricatures of real life existing people get to have their send offs, but it’s honestly more of a relief just that they’re hopefully gone. No more needing to force in a Kellyanne Conway joke about alternative facts, no more trying make Don Jr or Eric into the rambunctious man children who can’t hold a scene, no more Rudy Giuliani…just please, no more Rudy Giuliani. Not even in real life. That may be the only relief we get in the political process, that it won’t feel like so much of a reality show anymore. Hopefully that won’t mean that the effort and care that has brought more people to think about how things have been will wear off, but it will be nice to at least have someone in charge who isn’t constantly rage tweeting about Fox News from his gold toilet. And maybe there’s a deeper dive of this to get into in the Season Review