Bad Senator
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Written and Directed by Chad W. Richardson
Once a towering figure in American politics, Senator Everett Langston spent four decades mastering the art of spin, manipulation, and self-preservation. Known for his charm, wit, and ruthless ambition, he never lost a vote-or an opportunity to serve himself. But now, years into retirement and increasingly frail, Everett finds himself a relic of a world that has long since moved on. The cameras are gone. The phone doesn't ring. The invitations have stopped coming.
Living alone in a sterile mansion filled with mementos of a life he thought mattered, Everett begins to feel the weight of something he's ignored his entire career: regret. Estranged from his daughter-a brilliant, principled woman who has made a name for herself by actively opposing everything he stood for-Everett must finally confront the cost of his legacy. Meanwhile, the memory of his late wife, the only person who ever saw through the public facade, haunts him with the quiet devastation of what could have been.
As Everett spirals deeper into self-pity and isolation, a series of awkward, darkly comic, and unexpectedly tender encounters begin to chip away at his narcissistic armor. A feisty home care nurse with no patience for political B. S., a former political rival turned unexpected confidant, and even his own daughter-reluctantly drawn back into his orbit-force Everett to reckon with the man behind the myth.
Part political satire, part emotional character study, Bad Senator is a sharp and poignant dramedy about ego, redemption, and the final campaign we all face: making peace with who we really are before it's too late.
