When Netflix signed a mammoth production deal with Ryan Murphy, one natural question was: Which one of him would they get? The big-hearted storyteller of “Pose”? The gore-splashing fabulist of “American Horror Story” and “9-1-1”? The drawn-from-life dramatist of “Feud” and “American Crime Story”?

Judging by Murphy’s teeming to-do list — series about Andy Warhol and Marlene Dietrich, a film of “The Boys in the Band,” documentaries — they’re apt to get all of those and then some.

But what they got first was “The Politician,” appearing Friday, which recalls the Ryan Murphy of “Glee.” Like that high school musical, to which “The Politician” is the jaded richer sibling, it’s an acerbic Technicolor sketch of The Way Teens Live Now that gets lost in its hairpin story turns.

“The Politician” is not a musical, though it stars Ben Platt (“Dear Evan Hansen”) as the electorally ambitious teen Payton Hobart and is sensible enough to give him the occasional excuse to sing. But like “Glee,” (“Nowadays, being anonymous is worse than being poor”), it opens with a clear thesis statement. “People like to think of their presidents as characters we see on TV,” Payton says.