Sequel, Prequel, Limited Series, or All-Black Remake
Yes, a 10-episode Netflix series
In the discussion (4)
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- Posed as a new category, could this be remade as a 10-episode Netflix series: one host is 1,000% yes and would be in on the series, but the question is how similar a 2019-20 version would be, an optimistic comedy or the story of a coup and a cover-up.
- Now you would make it as Trump replaced by a body double who becomes a much better president, which could be pretty interesting, though that might inadvertently humanize him and his policies; the underlying issue with the movie, if you think too hard, is the idea that all you need is a nice guy and the country will be fine, which one host still believes.
- The Frank Capra comparison is defended: the movie is about ideas, about using public office for good and decency once ego, money, vanity and sex are disentangled, the kind of show Aaron Sorkin tried to make with The West Wing as a true believer whose dad went to school on the GI Bill; but Sorkin's president is a Nobel-winning economist accused of being an elitist, and the implication here that anyone can be president hits the wrong way today and may already have led down rocky paths, though Dave would disagree.
- Polled yes or no: one host says no, having answered no virtually every time on this category because we got Dave the movie and a series would just be very different and a bummer; another says it can be done and is ready for another president series in general, making it two in favor against one.