Reply #1: Yeah, they did very good background stuff [View All]

with Al Franken and (I think) Arianna Huffington, as if several years down the road the news shows are dominated by the likes of them, instead of the ones we have now. It did a good job of showing a general deterioration of living conditions in this country.

Meryl Streep is absolutely fabulous as the mother/senator. It's so clear that her character is always the smartest person in the room, and even if she's senator, it's because she was elected when her husband died, and never ever has gotten the recognition she deserves on her own, so there's this undercurrent of frustration, coupled with a truly evil right-wing world view. She really inhabits her characters.