ABC’s The Mayor is succeeds because it tackles the Trump era without delving into current events

Vulture

The ABC comedy “manages to simultaneously serve as a commentary on Donald Trump and, at least in its pilot, which airs Tuesday night, not engage with actual current events at all,” says Jen Chaney. The Mayor, she adds, “is certainly showing us what it looks like when a person seeks office for selfish reasons and then has to figure out how to lead without experience, or a plan, or even a clue. But it’s also showing us what it looks like when that person happens to be a black man who knows what it means to be an average person with real struggles.”

• The Mayor creator has worked for Chris Matthews and Mindy Kaling 
• The Mayor is too rushed, too unfunny
• The Mayor has a self-assured quality right from the get-go, starting with its charming pilot
• Tony-winning Hamilton star Daveed Diggs, a Mayor producer, writes star Brandon Michael Hall raps for every episode: “What we’re asking Brandon to do is crazy"