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Ryan Murphy’s new series is coming back for a second run
By Ben Allen
11/13/2019
Spoilers for The Politician season one
Ryan Murphy’s first Netflix Original series The Politician is one of the best shows of 2019 – and thankfully it has already been picked up for a second season.
The second lot of eight episodes is set to go into production in Autumn 2019, with much of the main cast – including Ben Platt and Lucy Boynton – expected to return, alongside some excellent new guest stars who were introduced towards the end of the first season.
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Who is in the cast of Netflix’s The Politician?
Find out everything you need to know about the new series below.
When is The Politician season 2 released on Netflix?
No official release date has been announced as yet. Netflix confirmed to RadioTimes.com that the second season is set to go into production in October 2019, just a month after the show’s initial release. All going well, we should see season 2 sometime in 2020…
Who will be in the cast?
The big news for season two is that Bette Midler and Judith Light are joining the cast as Payton’s political rivals, who were introduced in the season one finale.
Zoey Deutch is also expected to return, though it is unclear what part Infinity could play in the new set of episodes.
It is currently unclear whether Gwyneth Paltrow will return as Georgina Hobart, who flew off to be with her lover (played by tennis star Martina Navratilova) in the penultimate episode. The same goes for Jessica Lange, whose story appears to have come to an end with the second-to-last episode.
What is going to happen?
Season two will follow Payton four years after the events of season one as he runs for Senate in New York against complacent democratic candidate Senator Standish (Judith Light).
Alice has committed to managing Payton’s campaign, having discovered, via Astrid, that Standish is in a three-way marriage, a scandal that they will use to hurt her chances of re-election.
What they don’t know yet, however, is that the senator has signed on to run for vice president under a popular and handsome young candidate from Texas. She has got plenty of reasons to fight dirty, too…
