Graves

Nick Nolte plays Richard Graves, in an earlier life (fictional) president of the United States and generally known as the worst in the history of the country, a fact that clearly eats at him and he is more than tired. Although the presidency has been behind him for several decades, as a former president, he still has a busy agenda that, somewhat reluctantly, he completes every day. Until one day he sees the light and wants to put an end to his past. The man who is not shy about strong statements anyway: "Opinions are like assholes; Everybody has one and they all stink." at his next "acte de presence" in favor of a children's cancer fund, throws all brakes off and the protocol overboard. Instead of rattling off a prescribed speech in front of those present, he throws his own unvarnished opinion on the table ... But of course it doesn't stop there; His new vision of life and the urge to break with the past make ex-president Graves a loose cannon who only wants to do his own thing and speak his own mind. For example, after showing up unannounced at the quinceanera of his Mexican gardener's daughter and probing the opinion of those present, he agrees the next day in an interview with a reporter who has asked him in vain for 30 years, and then goes for the national television to invite all illegal immigrants to his Santa Fe estate with an expulsion order. The result is obvious ... As far as I am concerned, a more than successful start for the first two episodes with a great Nick Nolte in the lead role and a convincing Sela Ward as his "first lady". Unfortunately afterwards it collapses like a pudding and little remains of what seemed a promising comedy at first.