Politics and Drama Collide at the Writers Guild Awards

FishbowlDC talks to Tony Goldwyn, Margo Martindale, David Simon and Al Franken.

As if to underscore how deeply politics has saturated the world of drama, this weekend’s 2016 Writers Guild Awards was well-populated by writers and actors from the fictional political worlds of shows like House of Cards, Scandal, Veep and The Good Wife, as well as the fictionalized worlds of real politics in efforts like HBO’s Show Me a Hero, which captures the politics of late ’80s/early ’90s racial tension and segregation in the city of Yonkers in New York’s Westchester county.

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