Season 1 poster

Season 1

(2022)

Overview

Season one focuses on Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford and Michelle Obama.

Cast

Viola Davis as Michelle Obama
Viola Davis

as Michelle Obama

Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford
Michelle Pfeiffer

as Betty Ford

Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt
Gillian Anderson

as Eleanor Roosevelt

O-T Fagbenle as Barack Obama
O-T Fagbenle

as Barack Obama

Dakota Fanning as Susan Elizabeth Ford
Dakota Fanning

as Susan Elizabeth Ford

Lily Rabe as Lorena Hickok
Lily Rabe

as Lorena Hickok

Regina Taylor as Marian Shields Robinson
Regina Taylor

as Marian Shields Robinson

Kiefer Sutherland as Franklin D. Roosevelt
Kiefer Sutherland

as Franklin D. Roosevelt

Aaron Eckhart as Gerald Ford
Aaron Eckhart

as Gerald Ford

Episodes

that white house poster

that white house 6.8

April 17, 2022

After Franklin’s sudden polio diagnosis, Eleanor Roosevelt commits to enabling his political future despite pressure fr…

voices carry poster

voices carry 7.3

April 24, 2022

Moved by the toll the Great Depression has taken on the country, Eleanor presses Franklin to act more boldly and lobbie…

please allow me poster

please allow me 7.0

May 1, 2022

Young Eleanor reluctantly cuts short her progressive education in London to make her dreaded societal debut as a member…

cracked pot poster

cracked pot 5.2

May 8, 2022

Years before first entering the White House, Eleanor discovers Franklin’s marital indiscretions, which push her to soci…

see saw poster

see saw 8.0

May 15, 2022

Frustrated by the male dominated world of media and politics, Eleanor holds the White House’s first all-female press co…

shout out poster

shout out 7.0

May 22, 2022

Eleanor moves Hick into an adjacent bedroom in the White House while Franklin has the FBI surveil her actions. Inspired…

nadir poster

nadir 7.7

May 29, 2022

After African-American opera singer Marian Anderson is banned from performing for the Daughters of the American Revolut…

punch perfect poster

punch perfect 7.0

June 5, 2022

Dissatisfied with Franklin’s complacency over growing international atrocities in Europe, Eleanor forces his hand to as…

rift poster

rift 7.0

June 12, 2022

As Franklin helms the United States’ entry into World War II, Eleanor patriotically rallies the country as First Lady, …

victory dance poster

victory dance 7.7

June 19, 2022

Eleanor receives a last gift from an ailing Franklin: the charter for the League of Nations, a blueprint for their shar…