Network: CBS
Episodes: 13 (hour)
Seasons: One
TV show dates: June 13, 2016 — September 11, 2016
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Danny Pino, Aaron Tveit, Tony Shalhoub, Nikki M. James, Johnny Ray Gill, Charlie Semine, and Jan Maxwell.
TV show description:
Created by Robert and Michelle King, this comic-thriller TV series is set in the world of Washington, DC politics.
Fresh-faced, Laurel Healy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has returned home to Washington, DC to work for her brother, Senator Luke Healy (Danny Pino) on Capitol Hill.
The daughter of a Democratic political dynasty who left the area to become a documentary filmmaker, Laurel is pulled back into the family business when her brother, the Democratic whip Senator from Maryland, needs her help running his Senate office.
She is caught in the midst of two huge problems: the government has stopped working due to budgetary disagreements, and mysterious bugs are eating the brains of a growing number of members of Congress and Hill staffers
On the Hill, Laurel becomes unlikely friends with Gareth (Aaron Tveit), the smart, hardworking Legislative Director to a top Republican, Senator Red Wheatus (Tony Shalhoub).
One of Laurel’s allies, Gustav Triplett (Johnny Ray Gill) is an eccentric genius who is the first in DC to recognize that something sinister is attacking the Capitol.
There’s also Rochelle (Nikki M. James), a medical student who teams up with Laurel and Gustav to protect and defend the citizens of DC from an untimely fate.
Other characters include Anthony Onofrio (Charlie Semine), and Senator Ella Pollack (Jan Maxwell).
As the tiny bugs continue to multiply, Laurel and her allies must work quickly to identify the creatures, stop their infiltration and ultimately save the world.
Episode #13 — The End of All We Hold Dear: What Happens when Democracies Fail: A Brief Synopsis
Laurel discovers the secret to driving the bugs out of a person’s brain and tests the tactic on her father. Armed with new knowledge, Laurel and Gareth attempt to expel the Queen bug out of Red’s head once and for all.
First aired: September 11, 2016.
What do you think? Do you like the BrainDead TV show? Do you think it should have been cancelled or renewed for a second season?
Anything after the new leader was installed! Brain Dead is totally NORMAL!
I think in todays political climate the show fits right in and I would love to see it continued
This was a great very original show with an out-there-on-the-edge plot, wit and humor that’s hard to find on prime time TV. I’m so sad it was cancelled. Please bring it back. It just needed a little more time to find it’s fan base. People were just finding out about it.
I loved the show
Loved this show kept waiting for the return. CBS you messed-up on this show. Very well written and truly funny wonderful cast.With all the boring reality shows I never watch, all they do is add to the hostility so wrong with America today. Stab your neighbor ,rat out a pretend friend. No wonder I prefer old movies to what you call entertainment today
This show is great and hilarious with wonderful characters! Don’t cancel!!
I’m appalled it has been canceled!!!
These bugs have caused this! Seriously, why has it been canceled?
Bring it back… “we all” need a good laugh now!
I kept waiting for it to come back on, loved it. Am i disappointed.
Finally…a well written and funny TV show – and then it is killed! Typical I guess. Cater to the average American viewer standard – i.e., semi-literate and knuckle-dragging – and give us more “Jersey Shore”, Kardasians, “The Voice”, “Survivor” pap, and all of that refuse. Drive me deeper into cable…
One of the best show sinces MASH.
This show was great. I hope a cable station picks it up. Brilliant writing!
I liked this show and am disappointed it was cancelled.
Great show! I can see why the Republicans wanted it cancelled – too real! LOL
Republican Democrat, Independent….who cares. This was one of the best shows out last year. I am so sick of “Reality” shows where the people get sick or injured and the cameraman doesn’t call for help. Now THAT’S a JOKE! Anybody that watches that mess should just go to bed at 5.00 p.m. and not bother with the ”
“Un” reality of the tube.
Great show, funny, smart. Sorry it was cancelled, especially in light of all the mediocre garbage they put on TV nowadays.
What a great show. Canceling it was a cop out. It was such a satirical comment on today’s political environment. If the producers don’t feel that it’s appropriate for network TV, then they should try to get a deal to sell it to a cable network, not just abandon it. There are too few TV shows that make you think and also entertain.
I agree!