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?
This show NEEDS to be renewed!!! I have to get all my “Libertard” and “Conservaturd” friends to watch it and rethink their own extremism!
I hope this show is renewed. It is one of the very few best on television. We have been taking to looking on Netflix for good television series, but this show is one we will never miss when it is on.
Love this show, it’s new and refreshing…alien ants invading Washington is a great storyline…I am so hoping that won’t be cancelled but since novel shows usually don’t make it, I’m afraid that it will be…
Renew this show. Aliens in the brains of politicians. Completely novel and contemporary. Great acting, sympathetic heroes, great bad guys, particularly Tony Shaloub, whose Red Wheatus is probably the best villain ever. More people need to watch- those who geek out on sci-fi- this is nirvana. I want to know how the aliens are going to be exposed and then what?
Great Show…I am addicted..Wonderful ensemble cast
CBS Please Renew BrainDead!
Renew, it is the best thing about politics going on right now. Funny and good writing.
DO NOT cancel. I’m addicted.
Renewed!
Please renew, renew, remew! Love the show, hardly ever watched this network and now I’m seeing their other shows smart money would be to keep show for bigger audience
I totally agree with this. Very clever show!
Love the show. Binge watched it on Netflix. My husband loves it too!
Love it, very entertaining hour goes by very fast.
Keep it going love it.
Love the satire, please keep on the air.
My whole family loves this show, please do not cancel this series.
My whole family loves it! Do not cancel this wonderful series!