Season 1 • Episode 10
LatestMary and James are forced to sell the office furniture as Bergstrom Lowell's reputation plummets.
An experimental fusion of reality and fiction--a fly-on-the-wall look at government, filmed in and around the corridors of power in Washington. The series ventures inside the world of powerful political consultants--a world that few people ever experience first-hand. Produced on location in Washington, D.C., the largely improvised ten-episode series combines fictional characters with appearances by real-life political figures, all centered around the biggest political news of the week.
Direction
Soderbergh shoots DC like a heist film about meetings.
Acting
McCormack and Slattery doing improv with actual congressmen.
Creators
Steven Soderbergh, George Clooney
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Episodes were written and shot in five days each, with Soderbergh editing overnight for Sunday air—making it closer to live political theater than traditional television.
The show premiered months into the Iraq War and was instantly dated; its real-time production model couldn't adapt to history accelerating faster than satire could process.
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