A select group of “Hamptons influencers,” meaning people who Instagram their Aperol spritzes, gathered at a rented McMansion in East Hampton Friday evening for a screening of “The Politician,” a forthcoming Netflix series starring Gwyneth Paltrow and created by, among others, Brad Falchuk, her husband.

“Only Brad could get me back to my original day job,” said Ms. Paltrow, who has mostly left acting to concentrate on her powerhouse lifestyle brand, Goop.

She turned to him and added: “It helps that you’re so good-looking, and that you have sex with me.”

Tittering into their popcorn in the basement screening room were Ali Wentworth, the comedian, and her husband, George Stephanopoulos, the television host; Tracy Anderson, the professional fit person; Blythe Danner, the actress and Ms. Paltrow’s mother; and Ted Sarandos, the chief content officer of Netflix.

Like “Beverly Hills, 90210” before it, “The Politician” is set in a California high school where students look old enough to be divorced. “Luckily, my character is wildly intelligent for a high-school student, so I don’t have to play too young or too much below my level,” said Ben Platt, 25, who plays Payton Hobart, the rich and ambitious student of the title.