"Political Animals" was a six episode short series that ran on the USA Network in 2012 that is currently available on Netflix. If you haven't watched it yet, what are you waiting for?! Go watch it right now! You won't regret it! With an A-list cast including Sigourney Weaver, Ellen Burstyn and Sebastian Stan, the show tackles American politics approaching an upcoming election season in a mildly more liberal American society. The only major difference from reality is that there is an openly gay Supreme Court justice, and a former first son also came out as homosexual while his father was serving as President.
Anyone who has ever watched the show will agree that there needs to be another season. While there are so many things that happen in just six episodes, the series ends leaving you at the edge of your seat with so many questions left unanswered!
Here are five main reasons that "Political Animals" needs to be rebooted (even if it's for another limited series, I just need more!):
1. Does Elaine actually run for president?!
Okay, hear me out. Even though it is more than heavily implied in the last few minutes that Elaine Barrish fully intends to run for president again, she had just intended to give up her own campaign to run as Garcetti's Vice President in his re-election campaign. With Garcetti gone, will anything else be able to sway her decision? Will she let Collier bully her into staying as Secretary of State? I'd like to at least see him try, and watch Elaine laughing in his face as she hands over her resignation and begins her campaign against him.
2. Was Collier involved in the President's plane crashing?
We know Vice President Collier enjoys his fair share of dirty politics. We know this; we saw him blackmail Senator Reeves into changing his vote to pass a bill. As soon as the President's plane crashes, Collier calls a judge to swear him in as President. Elaine even says to him that there's a constitutional statue that allows him to act as the President without being sworn in, and that being sworn in so soon seems suspicious. After she reasons with him, he backs down and decides not to be sworn in until the President's body is found. But his haste to take the position and lack of empathy towards the situation, along with his known past, make him the prime suspect for causing the plane crash.
3. Will TJ stay involved with the club after his overdose?
TJ was so excited to have the club, because it was something that he had a hand in creating. Even when he found out that his partners only wanted to use his celebrity status to help them launch, he stayed enthusiastically involved in the planning and opening of the club. When his family blew the opening night off, he let his addiction get the better hand of him and ended up spending a few days in the hospital for overdosing. But does he go back to the club? Does he stay involved long enough to pay the loan from his brother back?
4. Does Douglas keep working for Elaine?
Before running off to elope with Anne, Douglas essentially quit working for Elaine. After having sold her out to a reporter, he acknowledges his wrongdoings and more or less steps down from his position as her Chief of Staff. But will he pick his position back up after they reconcile? Does he run her campaign if she runs for President again? Or does he give it all up?
5. Does Elaine continue to keep Bud out of her love life?
Despite a minor slip up, Elaine has been making phenomenal strides to keep her cheating ex-husband out of her love life. However, the series closes with the two of them alone together. Bud and Elaine are great friends, but that's all that they actually work as; friends. Once anything goes beyond that point, Bud is usually using her as leverage, getting information from her, or cheating on her with someone else. Whenever Elaine let's Bud into her love life, she always ends up hurt. So will she realize that Douglas was right about him and keep him out of her love life? Or will she let him back in and risk getting hurt again?
