![]() ![]() This time, the series is ending in the midst of a real-life impeachment drama, with an ending that’s pointing much more towards something out of House of Cards than Madam Secretary. The politics of the show were loftier than today’s hyperpartisanship, an idealized version of a White House in much the same way that The West Wing was during the Bush years. Clinton even appeared in a cameo, along with other former secretaries of state Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell, and it only further reinforced the tone of the show as a kind of what might have been had things gone a different way in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Season six of MADAM SECRETARY finds Elizabeth (Ta Leoni) newly elected as President of the United States, encountering the challenges and the splendo. ![]() The series had a way of featuring some parallels to current events - McCord even fended off an impeachment drive - but the series was always linked to Hillary Clinton, debuting in 2014 just as speculation was rampant that she would run in 2016. Right when you thought you were going to make it through the episode without crying.
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