Party Animals

Young Politicos
'Party Animals' is a BBC production of eight episodes that saw only one season. That is a shame,as I became familiar with the characters I liked their stories and the way it was told.

This series reminded me of the US 'West Wing'. Young,energetic people in the place of power, assisting their bosses in their role in the big time, in this case 'Parilment'. The series MPs, advisors, researchers and lobbyists making their way through Westminster. Scott Foster plays Andrew Buchan, a lobbyist on the Labour side who is becoming increasingly tired and burnt out protecting and informing the rich and infamous. He lives with his younger brother Danny, played by Matt Smith, who works as a researcher for Junior Minister Jo Porter played by Raquel Cassidy. Danny Has a crush on the newintern Kirsty MacKenzie, played by Andrea Riseborough.
Ashika Chandrimani, plays Shelley Conn, the chief advisor to Shadow Minister James Northcote. they are having an affair, a risky prospect, no...

Party Animals
Great dvd and content about political parties and the shenanigans that occur as assistants/aides within the party fight to be heard. Power! Stars Matt Smith of Doctor Who in an earlier role. Great stuff.

Beautifully Captures Political Obsession and Follies of Youth
This series, to put it plainly, is brilliant. It showcases a young cast of talented and dedicated actors, all of whom have impressed in other projects and all of whom stand in my mind for this work above all others, even Matt Smith, and I love Doctor Who so that is saying something. His doctor is my favorite, yes, my favorite, of all of them, even the black and white Doctors I remember from childhood in the middle of the night when I couldn't sleep and snuck to the living room for that buzzing static and brightly lit solace (with no remote). Even so, when all is said and done, it is Danny Foster I think of first for this actor.

The premise is simple, two brothers, as in the greatest of stories, two brothers, raised on politics by an office-holding father who set the bar so high and then did the worst thing a father can do: died. Danny (Smith) and Scott (Andrew Buchan of Broadchurch and the best Jane Eyre adaptation in history, the 2006 White, Welch and Wilson version) live...

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