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?
Re Cap of Gunsmoke was hilarious last week, can’t believe finale is already here – please bring it back ASAP!
Love “Brain Dead”, it’s cute and makes me laugh especially with a back drop of Washington DC❤️
Smartest show on Television right now. Creative, funny, exciting, extremely well written (I’m a writer, I know) and besides I’d watch Tony Shaloub read the phone book. Renew! PS: Few people know this, but it’s actually a documentary. Explains a lot, right?
This is a smart, crazy, funny and well written comedy. The cast is terrific and I hope that it makes it to season 2, can’t wait to see where it goes next.
Please renew — creative and funny.
Love this show”
This show is hilarious. I hate when good shows end so soon because not enough people find it. Please give it another season!
I love show! It’s quirky and different. Please don’t cancel.
Fun show. Great cast, great writing. Please renew!
I think the show is terrific and pretty much sums up what’s going on in our country now. I will be very disappointed if it goes off the air as a cliffhanger and doesn’t return. There must be resolution to the bug problem.
good show. Different, good script and somewhat silly at times, but that’s ok
I like it. Poltical shenanigans, alien invasion, are mundane to say the least. The rest is genius.
We love this show. quirky, but so politically on target for the shenanigans that are playing across our country. Twists and turns you never see coming. Please don’t cancel.
I am enjoying this quirky show and would have hoped it would go to a second season. Sadly, i read that it’s being cancelled…..guess i’ll never find out if the head-exploding aliens get defeated. Darn.
IT MUST BE RENEWED… YEA, IT’S NUTS BUT TAKES YOU AWAY, YET EXPLAINS SOME OF THE CURREMT REPUBLICAN’S ACTIONS.. BUGS.. THAT MUST BE IT!!!!….