Liberal Porn

There it is. That headline is the only substantive point I have to make about Geena Davis' new TV series, Commander in Chief. I didn't watch it, though if I had known it was on, perhaps I would have. I'd always had a soft spot in my heart for her after her starring role in Earth Girls are Easy. But I became disenchanted when I found that she had married Jeff Goldblum. And the sight of her practicing archery in an attempt to make the Olympic team just did not look sexy. (Personally, I prefer my women to use firearms.)

Anyway, here are some reviews from people who did watch it;

• The NYT's Alessandra Stanley:

  "Commander in Chief" is a political fantasy, a feminist twist on "The West Wing," which this season pits a Hispanic Democratic nominee against a Republican challenger. And like "The West Wing," the series has a romantic vision of government.

  Nobility in the nation's capital is still a hard sell on television, even in an era of forensic anthropologists with pretty faces and criminal investigators who see dead people. But "Commander in Chief" is well written and playful with its premise even as it conjures a post-Hillary world where female politicians are pure at heart or at least have learned from Senator Clinton's early mistakes.

• The LAT's Al Martinez made his review into a poll of the LAT's newsroom regarding which woman they would most like to see as president. No surprise there, Hillary won in a landslide.
  
  
• The WaPo's Tom Shales didn't really like it (too much focus on the "just imagine! a woman as President of the USA!"), but he did offer this oh-so-daring bit of editorializing: "We could do a lot worse than have Geena Davis serving as president of the United States. Indeed, we already have."
  
  
• The NY Post's Linda Stasi manages to tie it all together with this observation:

  Several years ago I found myself with several other female columnists chowing down and chewing the fat with Hillary Clinton at a White House lunch. We talked about politics, media, kids and the curse of bad haircuts. I swear.

  The next morning, a front-page New York Times story proclaimed that Clinton had invited us all in for makeover advice!

  The point? One, sometimes even other women can't bear to see a woman in a position of power and, second, on tonight's premiere of "Commander in Chief," President McKenzie Allen's makeup is so crazy-lady-on-the-bus bad that even Clinton's lunch bunch could have done a better job.

Liberals may not be able to win elections in this country but, thanks to their pals in Hollywood, they can still pretend.