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The First Lady (2022)
Season 1
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Season one focuses on Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford and Michelle Obama.
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10 Episodes
that white house
E1
that white house
Episode 1
voices carry
E2
voices carry
Episode 2
please allow me
E3
please allow me
Episode 3
cracked pot
E4
cracked pot
Episode 4
see saw
E5
see saw
Episode 5
shout out
E6
shout out
Episode 6
nadir
E7
nadir
Episode 7
punch perfect
E8
punch perfect
Episode 8
rift
E9
rift
Episode 9
victory dance
E10
victory dance
Episode 10
Cast of Season 1
Viola Davis
Michelle Obama
Michelle Pfeiffer
Betty Ford
Gillian Anderson
Eleanor Roosevelt
O-T Fagbenle
Barack Obama
Dakota Fanning
Susan Elizabeth Ford
Lily Rabe
Lorena Hickok
Regina Taylor
Marian Shields Robinson
Kiefer Sutherland
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Aaron Eckhart
Gerald Ford
Season 1 Reviews
The Atlantic
Shirley Li
The First Lady is a barely thematically connected and carelessly staged summary of three fascinating figures. All of them deserved better.
TheWrap
Melissa Bernardo
Apologies to Eleanor and Michelle - both great first ladies indeed - but Betty's life could be a series in itself.
New Yorker
Doreen St. Felix
The Showtime miniseries, starring Viola Davis, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Gillian Anderson, manages to make life as a White House wife seem both cosmic and forgettable.
Common Sense Media
Diondra K. Brown
A compelling series that grounds prominent historical figures using raw emotions and struggles, The First Lady tackles important thematic issues and shares more about life before the presidency for Michelle Obama, Betty Ford, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Salon.com
Melanie McFarland
Each episode wastes the firepower in front of the camera by plugging its actors into flashpoints and watershed moments as opposed to filling in the open canvas with cues and hints about who they are during the quieter moments.
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
A show that feels too consistently shallow, hitting highlights from the lives of its subjects instead of revealing how one incident impacted another or how these people grew or changed once they were in the public eye.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
The writing is often clunky, obvious and filled with Big Picture Messaging, and too many of the supporting characters are one-note caricatures.
indieWire
Kristen Lopez
If "The First Lady" gets another season itll need to find a way to create compelling narratives for all its leads and be unafraid to get into the mess that is the White House.
Entertainment Weekly
Kristen Baldwin
The show ultimately plays like a prestige (and repetitive) reenactment of each First Lady's Wikipedia page.
Autostraddle
Heather Hogan
There's a prescience to Eleanor's fury on behalf of sick and impoverished Americans suffering through the Great Depression that feels just right in 2022.
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
Once the "great woman behind the man" story line emerges as the show's primary theme, "The First Lady" cannot help but seem hopelessly old-fashioned - and ill-timed for what already seems like a regressive moment for women in our nation.
USA Today
Kelly Lawler
There's never quite enough from any one first lady, which leaves a sense of disappointment. It's unfortunately a show that is lesser than the sum of its Emmy- and Oscar-winning parts.
AV Club
David Cote
For all its glossy production values and talented leads, a few episodes in The First Lady starts to show fatigue, like three highly padded made-for-TV movies spliced together.
Variety
Caroline Framke
Watching the series attempt to make sense of itself, it's tempting to believe that it began as three separate Michelle, Betty, and Eleanor shows before The First Lady slapped them together into one.
TIME Magazine
Judy Berman
The First Lady could have been great.
Hollywood Reporter
Angie Han
For all its glossy sheen and good intentions, The First Lady has little to offer that feels truly, meaningfully "real."
Washington Post
Inkoo Kang
While it celebrates women who break the mold, the show itself is deeply - and dispiritingly - conventional.
Boston Globe
Matthew Gilbert
The message that these women overcame barriers is hammered home, so that their heroism is never in doubt, never challenged along the way. That's no fun.
Chicago Tribune
Nina Metz
Ten episodes in, you don't come away feeling you know the stories of these women any better, any deeper, than you already did.
NPR
David Bianculli
Even though I'm lukewarm about the structure of The First Lady, and wary of the depictions of some of the specific story lines, I'm also very, very enthusiastic about the lead performances.
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