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Graves: Season 2

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MGM+ | Season Premiere Date: October 16, 2016

Summary: Former President Richard Graves (Nick Nolte) seeks to overturn many of his administration's accomplishments just as his wife Margaret (Sela Ward) decides she wants to run for office.

Creator: Joshua Michael Stern

Genre(s): Comedy, Drama

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E11. Not Giants but Windmills
Air Date: December 18, 2016
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S1:E10. Through a Glass Gravely
Air Date: December 11, 2016
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S1:E9. TV Is the Shepard
Air Date: December 4, 2016

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IndieWire Ben Travers

Oct 13, 2016

It’s a big step up from Amazon’s “Alpha House.” Plus, through three episodes, the well-performed, warmly funny tale is also fair to both sides of the aisle. And it’s got some big ideas to boot. Read full review

Sonia Saraiya

Oct 6, 2016

The political comedy, starring Nick Nolte and Sela Ward, is both genuinely funny and genuinely moving, displaying a kind of rigor in its storytelling that is frequently lost on networks new to original programming. Read full review

Robert Lloyd

Oct 17, 2016

It does not go deep. And yet in its moments, Graves can be quite persuasive, even moving. (It can be corny too, but corn can work.) Growling and grumbling like a spokesperson for phlegm as he takes Graves from childishness to youthfulness, Nolte finds everything touching in his character, and makes you feel it too. Read full review

Hank Stuever

Sep 15, 2016

It’s an interesting spree--strewn with cameos from Jake Tapper, Rudy Giuliani, Bill Richardson and more--and Nolte seems to make more of the role than the scripts offer. But Graves is also somewhat leaden and obvious in its first two episodes, replete with a rebellious former first daughter (Helene Yorke) and a first son (Chris Lowell) who never felt loved. Read full review

Joe McGovern

Oct 8, 2016

Graves is a lumpy blob of satire--witless and unadventurous in its targets. ... Nothing more than a Veep for Dummies. [Oct 14, 2016, p.53]

Uncle Barky Ed Bark

Oct 13, 2016

Graves assuredly will turn off some viewers with its title character’s U-turns from previous conservative positions on military spending and illegal immigration. The series clearly has an “agenda,” but isn’t all that artful in putting it forth. Nolte’s performance is energetic without being particularly memorable. Read full review

Daniel Fienberg

Oct 11, 2016

Graves is unquestionably politically aware, but it's neither politically smart nor, despite the hero's arc, all that politically reflective. Nolte has moments of grounded sadness that are nearly effective, but there's no way for those moments to stick when the show keeps undermining both his dignity and whatever dignity Graves once had. Read full review

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sedstrom

Jan 24, 2017

NICK NOLTE IS BACK! His acting is brilliant in this clever, intelligent drama/comedy. Sela Ward is PERFECT! And all the other characters are amazing and perfectly cast. The guy who plays Isiah is fantastic! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THIS SHOW!

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RichardGonci

Oct 18, 2016

First off, when you start with Nick Nolte and Sela Ward you are already in my wheelhouse. This show will inflame some viewers, as it is obviously casts slings and arrows at the right wing crazed dialogue in the country now. Though, it was sooo funny that the producers got Rudy Giuliani toFirst off, when you start with Nick Nolte and Sela Ward you are already in my wheelhouse. This show will inflame some viewers, as it is obviously casts slings and arrows at the right wing crazed dialogue in the country now. Though, it was sooo funny that the producers got Rudy Giuliani to appear! The obvious "blush" to George W. Bush as the "worst President in America, with Nolte rendering a reconstructed version thereof in the post-presidency space, is brilliant. We need antidote to hate speech now, and this is a hoot and a half.… Expand

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Qldgamer

Oct 29, 2016

This was a train wreck in progress, dull plot and characters that I have zero interest in. If the ideas are relevant in the US then it is not translating OS.

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: October 22, 2017
Season 1

61
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: October 16, 2016
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  S1:E11. Not Giants but Windmills
  Air Date: December 18, 2016
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  S1:E10. Through a Glass Gravely
  Air Date: December 11, 2016
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  S1:E9. TV Is the Shepard
  Air Date: December 4, 2016
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  S1:E8. The Careless Giant
  Air Date: November 27, 2016
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  S1:E7. Hunter or Savage
  Air Date: November 27, 2016
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  S1:E6. A Tincture of Madness
  Air Date: November 20, 2016
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  S1:E5. Liars in Winter
  Air Date: November 13, 2016
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  S1:E4. That Dare Not Speak
  Air Date: November 6, 2016
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  S1:E3. Nothing Can Come of Nothing
  Air Date: October 30, 2016
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  S1:E2. You Started Everything
  Air Date: October 23, 2016
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  S1:E1. Evil Good and Good Evil
  Air Date: October 16, 2016