CBS' New D.C. Series About Brain-Eating Alien Bugs Can't Compete With This Year's Crazy Election

BrainDead is a comic thriller with little of either

When it comes to TV shows about D.C. politics in 2016, truth is stranger than fiction. Even when the fiction involves brain-eating bugs from space.

And that's the problem with BrainDead, CBS' new series, debuting tonight, about a Capitol Hill staffer (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) who is one of the only people in Washington to realize that something sinister is slowly overtaking D.C.'s political players.

It's an inspired idea—and one of the most intriguing concepts that broadcast TV has attempted for its own version of a Walking Dead-like story.

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