The Politician is an American comedy-drama web television series created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan that premiered on Netflix on September 27, 2019.[1] The series stars Ben Platt, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Lange, Zoey Deutch, Lucy Boynton, Bob Balaban, David Corenswet, Julia Schlaepfer, Laura Dreyfuss, Theo Germaine, Rahne Jones and Benjamin Barrett