“I think the writers have really taken it over the top. It’s like watching ‘Scandal’ in its eighth season where you just feel that they have exhausted every possible trick and they’re emptying their notebooks at you.”

Would you commit to another season? “I think I’d like to see it recast.”

And we chat with Susan Dominus, of The Times Magazine, about the surprising ways that gender is playing out in pop cultural depictions of Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton in this campaign, a topic she is studying closely this year.

“If we are going to extend gender stereotypes all the way to their worst place, it’s celebrity, lightweight — that reads as in some ways feminine and inconsequential or not perceived as a real threat,” Ms. Dominus says. And in that sense, Mr. Trump, in some ways, is the more feminized figure. “For all of his bluster, when was the last time that people were this obsessed with a candidate’s hair?” Ms. Dominus asks. “It was Hillary in 2008!”

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