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* DisqualificationInducedVictory: [[spoiler: Well actually, Astrid withdrew from the election. Nevertheless, Payton won though he feels ambivalent about it.]]
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* HateSink: She's a elitist, homophobic RichBitch [[spoiler: who killed her daughter and poisoned her granddaughter into illness.]]
* HateSink: She's a elitist, homophobic RichBitch [[spoiler: who killed her daughter and poisoned her granddaughter into illness.]]
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* ManipulativeBitch: Dusty [[spoiler: likely caused her daughter-in-law's daughter's death from kidney failure by feeding her lead paint chips, caused her granddaughter to fall ill, and attempts to have Payton killed.]]
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* AddledAddict / FunctioningAddict: AddledAddict: Lizbeth is apparently on numerous drugs.
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* TwinThemeNaming: ThemeTwinNaming: ''Martin'' and ''Luther''.
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* NiceGirl: Infinity is initially a soft-spoken girl who appears to be kind.
* AmbiguouslyGay: She expresses no interest in guys. In episode 4, it's revealed that [[spoiler: [=McAfee=] is having a secret affair with Skye, though that alone doesn't confirm her sexuality as of yet.]]
* LastNameBasis: Possibly.
* LastNameBasis: Possibly.
* BackstabbingTheAlphaBitch: [[spoiler: Skye joins Payton's ticket after Astrid's running off to New York costs them valuable time]].
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* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler: Ricardo's attempt to get back at Astrid for destroying his relationship with Infinity leads to Astrid and him running off to New York in the middle of the presidential election which then leads to Astrid falling behind in the polls.]]
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* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: Or rather, her disappearance. She runs away to New York with the help with Ricardo]].
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* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: Or rather, her disappearance. She briefly runs away to New York with the help with Ricardo]].Ricardo]].
* LonelyRichKid: Astrid despises her life and doesn't have many friends. [[spoiler: This leads to her faking her disappearance in order to skip out of town to stay in New York for several days.]]
* LonelyRichKid: Astrid despises her life and doesn't have many friends. [[spoiler: This leads to her faking her disappearance in order to skip out of town to stay in New York for several days.]]
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* TwoFirstNames: Alice Charles.
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* TwoFirstNames: Alice Charles.
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* BrokenAce: Payton possesses a 4.3 GPA and is politically and academically savvy, though he is also an AcademicAlphaBitch who is deeply affected by [[spoiler: River's suicide]].
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* HappilyAdopted: Downplayed. He's ostracized by his older brothers and initially is TheUnfavorite to his father. His mother, however, loves him and Payton has no desire to look for his birth mother.
* [[SonOfAWhore Daughter Of A Whore]]: Her mother is a former escort.
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: Or rather, her disappearance. She runs away to New York with the help with Ricardo]].
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: Or rather, her disappearance. She runs away to New York with the help with Ricardo]].
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* [[spoiler: MunchausenSyndrome]]: [[spoiler: Pulls this on her granddaughter.]]
* [[spoiler: MunchausenSyndrome]]: [[spoiler: Pulls this on her granddaughter.]]
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* DeadpanSnarker: Frequently. For example, when Payton chastises him for being late (though technically he was on time - Theo just wasn't ten minutes early as per usual), Theo tells him that he will be looking for a catheter to use in order to stop his occasional wanting to go to the bathroom.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Frequently. For example, when Payton chastises him for being late (though technically he was on time - Theo James just wasn't ten minutes early as per usual), Theo James tells him that he will be looking for a catheter to use in order to stop his occasional wanting to go to the bathroom.
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* ButchLesbian: Skye's dress style leans towards this, and she is a lesbian.
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Astrid's mother.
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Astrid's mother.
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* CassandraTruth: [[spoiler: He tells the school principal and staff that Infinity is faking her disability, but is sent to detention for it.]]
* DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJackassery: Subverted. While he has cerebral palsy, he never seems to use his disability as an excuse. He's just generally a jerk to everyone but Infinity.
* DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJackassery: Subverted. While he has cerebral palsy, he never seems to use his disability as an excuse. He's just generally a jerk to everyone but Infinity.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Frequently. For example, when Payton chastises him for being late (though technically he was on time - Theo just wasn't ten minutes early as per usual), Theo tells him that he will be looking for a catheter to use in order to stop his occasional wanting to go to the bathroom.
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* AdoptionDiss: His brothers frequently point out that Payton isn't biologically related to the rest of the family.
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* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: An aborted attempt by one of Payton's rivals, in which he retaliates by calling them a bigot.
* GenderBlenderName: "Payton" (and its variants) can be a girl's name.
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* TheUnfavorite: He implicitly was this to his father Keaton [[spoiler: before his brothers tried to suffocate him]]. His mother, however, is [[ParentalFavoritism the inversion]].
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* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: An aborted attempt by one of Payton's rivals, in which he retaliates by calling them a bigot.
* GenderBlenderName: "Payton" (and its variants) can be a girl's name.
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* TheUnfavorite: He implicitly was this to his father Keaton [[spoiler: before his brothers tried to suffocate him]]. His mother, however, is [[ParentalFavoritism the inversion]].
* BitchInSheepsClothing:
* MunchausenSyndrome: [[spoiler: Infinity is at the receiving end of this.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: She fakes doing this to Payton in order to get him sympathy points during the presidential election. [[spoiler: Except she ''isn't'' fake-cheating on him - she's been sleeping with Theo for several months.]]
* BackstabbingTheAlphaBitch: [[spoiler: He pulls this on Payton after the latter finds out about his affair with Alice.]]
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* MayDecemberRomance: She married to Keaton, who is significantly older than she is.
* ParentalFavoritism: It's clear that Georgina is closer to Payton than to Martin and Luther - thelatter both of whom she calls "borderline psychopathic".psychopathic".
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Payton's adoptive older twin brother.
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* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: With his brother Luther.
* {{Jerkass}}: Between treating their younger brother as lesser because he was adopted, treating their mother like crap, and [[spoiler: attempting to suffocate their comatose father to keep their brother and mother out of the will]], Martin and Luther are pieces of work.
* SingleMindedTwins: Subverted. Martin appears to have more of a conscience than Luther does.
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* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: With his brother Luther.
* {{Jerkass}}: Between treating their younger brother as lesser because he was adopted, treating their mother like crap, and [[spoiler: attempting to suffocate their comatose father to keep their brother and mother out of the will]], Martin and Luther are pieces of work.
* SingleMindedTwins: Subverted. Martin appears to have more of a conscience than Luther does.
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* AdoptionDiss: Not above doing this to Payton.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: With his brother Martin.
* {{Jerkass}}: Between treating their younger brother as lesser because he was adopted, treating their mother like crap, and [[spoiler: attempting to suffocate their comatose father to keep their brother and mother out of the will]], Martin and Luther are pieces of work.
* TwinThemeNaming: ''Martin'' and ''Luther''.
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Georgina's ex-lover.
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* AdoptionDiss: Not above doing this to Payton.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: With his brother Martin.
* {{Jerkass}}: Between treating their younger brother as lesser because he was adopted, treating their mother like crap, and [[spoiler: attempting to suffocate their comatose father to keep their brother and mother out of the will]], Martin and Luther are pieces of work.
* TwinThemeNaming: ''Martin'' and ''Luther''.
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* AcademicAlphaBitch: A rare male example.
* IllGirl: She is suffering from cancer. [[spoiler: Except she really isn't.]]
* ObfuscatingDisability: [[spoiler: Andrew tells Payton that she doesn't really have cancer, which is confirmed at the end of episode 2.]]
* ObfuscatingDisability: [[spoiler: Andrew tells Payton that she doesn't really have cancer, which is confirmed at the end of episode 2.]]
* AlphaBitch:
* TheRival: To Payton.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: At least in second grade, when she called Payton a "fag".
* TheRival: To Payton.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: At least in second grade, when she called Payton a "fag".
* BiTheWay: His girlfriend is Astrid, [[spoiler: but he had feelings for Payton, whom he also had a sexual relationship at some point before River committed suicide]].
* [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide]]: [[spoiler: River fatally shoots himself in front of Payton, and attempted suicide unsuccessfully a year prior to this.]]
* [[spoiler: PlotTriggeringDeath]]: [[spoiler: Somewhat. His girlfriend Astrid replaces him as Payton's rival in the student body president election in order to memorialize River.]]
* [[spoiler: PosthumousCharacter]]: [[spoiler: He only appears in flashbacks and dream sequences after his death in the first episode.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler: It's kind of hard to describe parts of the show without mentioning that River dies by suicide halfway through the pilot episode.]]
* [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide]]: [[spoiler: River fatally shoots himself in front of Payton, and attempted suicide unsuccessfully a year prior to this.]]
* [[spoiler: PlotTriggeringDeath]]: [[spoiler: Somewhat. His girlfriend Astrid replaces him as Payton's rival in the student body president election in order to memorialize River.]]
* [[spoiler: PosthumousCharacter]]: [[spoiler: He only appears in flashbacks and dream sequences after his death in the first episode.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler: It's kind of hard to describe parts of the show without mentioning that River dies by suicide halfway through the pilot episode.]]
* DeadpanSnarker:
* BluntHonesty: As she mentions in her first scene (and demonstrated in later episodes), Skye isn't afraid to give her honest opinion, not matter how blunt it is.
* DeadpanSnarker: Skye is a fan of throwing around
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Infinity's boyfriend.
* DeepSouth: Originally from West Virginia.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: In the series trailer, she describes gay people as only "munching on butts and celebrating Halloween".
* RichBitch: Dusty is rude and self-centered and also wealthy.
* SouthernBelle: What she passes herself as.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: In the series trailer, she describes gay people as only "munching on butts and celebrating Halloween".
* RichBitch: Dusty is rude and self-centered and also wealthy.
* SouthernBelle: What she passes herself as.
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* YourCheatingHeart: She cheats on her husband numerous times.
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[[folder: Payton Hobart]]
!!! '''Played By:''' Creator/BenPlatt
The protagonist of the series, an ambitious high school student who aspires to become president of the United States today and decides to run for student body president in order to achieve this goal.
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Originally Payton's running mate before becoming his rival.
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[[folder: Astrid Sloan]]
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Payton's rival, River's girlfriend.
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[[folder: Keaton Hobart]]
!!! '''Played By:''' Creator/BobBaladan
Payton's adoptive father, Georgina's husband.
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!!! '''Played By:''' David Corenswet
Astrid's boyfriend, Payton's rival [[spoiler: and ex-lover]]
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[[folder: Alice Charles]]
!!! '''Played By:''' Julia Schalepfer
Payton's girlfriend, member of his political team.
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!!! '''Played By:''' Laura Dreyfuss
One of the members of Payton's political team.
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[[folder: James]]
!!! '''Played By:''' Theo Germaine
Another member of Payton's political team.
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[[folder: Skye Leighton]]
!!! '''Played By:''' Rahne Jones
River [[spoiler: and later Astrid's]] running mate, a gender-nonconforming student.
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!!! '''Played By:''' Benjamin Barrett
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[[folder: Dusty Jackson]]
!!! '''Played By:''' Creator/JessicaLange
Infinity's grandmother.
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Payton's adoptive mother.
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!!Main Characters
[[folder: Payton Hobart]]
!!! '''Played By:''' Creator/BenPlatt
The protagonist of the series, an ambitious high school student who aspires to become president of the United States today and decides to run for student body president in order to achieve this goal.
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!!! '''Played By:''' Creator/ZoeyDeutch
Originally Payton's running mate before becoming his rival.
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[[folder: Astrid Sloan]]
!!! '''Played By:''' Creator/LucyBoynton
Payton's rival, River's girlfriend.
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[[folder: Keaton Hobart]]
!!! '''Played By:''' Creator/BobBaladan
Payton's adoptive father, Georgina's husband.
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!!! '''Played By:''' David Corenswet
Astrid's boyfriend, Payton's rival [[spoiler: and ex-lover]]
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[[folder: Alice Charles]]
!!! '''Played By:''' Julia Schalepfer
Payton's girlfriend, member of his political team.
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[[folder: [=McAfee=]]]
!!! '''Played By:''' Laura Dreyfuss
One of the members of Payton's political team.
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[[folder: James]]
!!! '''Played By:''' Theo Germaine
Another member of Payton's political team.
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[[folder: Skye Leighton]]
!!! '''Played By:''' Rahne Jones
River [[spoiler: and later Astrid's]] running mate, a gender-nonconforming student.
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[[folder: Ricardo]]
!!! '''Played By:''' Benjamin Barrett
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[[folder: Dusty Jackson]]
!!! '''Played By:''' Creator/JessicaLange
Infinity's grandmother.
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!!! '''Played By:''' Creator/GwynethPaltrow
Payton's adoptive mother.
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