The G Word with Adam Conover (Season 1)

The G Word with Adam Conover (2022) is an American documentary comedy series you can watch online on iFILM. Adam Conover — best known for Adam Ruins Everything — trains his fact-first lens on the US federal government itself. Six episodes, Netflix.

Each installment picks a different corner of Washington's bureaucracy and asks what it actually does: weather forecasters who quietly save thousands of lives a year, food safety inspectors stretched thin across the country, the agencies that lurched through — or quietly handled — the COVID-19 crisis. Barack Obama sits for an interview, which sets the tone. If you've ever wondered how the government actually functions between elections — and how much of it is stranger than anything on TV — Conover brings receipts. Stream The G Word with Adam Conover (2022) online on iFILM.