Season 2
We promise you bi partisanship.
Synopsis
You can watch The Politician Season 2 (2020) online on iFILM — seven episodes that leave high school behind. Payton Hobart is now aiming at the New York State Senate, taking on long-serving Majority Leader Dede Standish.
On paper Dede's re-election was a formality: decades of clout, a polished record, and a ruthless chief of staff named Hadassah Gold guarding her flank. Then Payton learns about the unconventional shape of her private life and starts weighing whether to weaponize it. The campaign keeps lurching — a compromising photo guts his climate credibility, his aide McAfee's snooping digs up an explosive secret, and Payton's own tangled affairs somehow start working in his favor. By election day it all comes down to a strange ballot-box twist that drops him at a real moral crossroads.
This run is shorter and nastier than the first, trading school-pageant camp for grown-up backroom politics and a harder question about what kind of politician Payton actually wants to be. Ben Platt anchors it again, with Judith Light and Bette Midler alongside. Watch all episodes of The Politician Season 2 online on iFILM.
7 episodes
S2·E1New York State of Mind
Frustrated with his polling numbers, Payton goes to Georgina for help as he weighs using his opponent's hush-hush love life to score political points.
S2·E2Conscious Unthroupling
As Astrid pumps Payton for details about their long-ago dalliance, Hadassah hatches a cover-up for Dede, and McAfee seeks a healthier work-life balance.
S2·E3Cancel Culture
Payton scrambles to salvage his campaign when he suffers a credibility crisis over a compromising photo and his commitment to fixing climate change.
S2·E4Hail Mary
McAfee's prurient sleuthing uncovers an explosive secret, Payton's tangled affairs turn fruitful, and Georgina's link to Tino proves problematic.
S2·E5The Voters
On Election Day, a mother and daughter argue over whether Payton or Dede is the better pick, motivating each to spend time with her chosen candidate.
S2·E6What's in the Box?
A shocking ballot-box twist positions Payton at a moral and ethical crossroads that could define the rest of his political career — and life.
S2·E7Election Day
With the senate race up for grabs, Payton and Dede prepare for an unconventional showdown, but a last-minute decision suddenly changes everything.
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