.... when I first watched this show back when I considered myself a normy, I thought everything in the show was outlandish, the government doing surgery to change appearance, secret service just killing people to cover things up, framing people, people who are dead but aren't, murder of political enemies....etc I would actually laugh at how outlandish it all was and how evil the female president was and this "company" that controlled everything.
Now watching it again.... I don't think it goes far enough.... and is probably pretty damn spot on... crazy.
I've actually had this realization about pretty much all books and movies I consumed in my youth. Particularly science fiction and fantasy - I thought those genres always went too far in portraying 'evil' - like made it a caricature too removed from reality to be believable.
I now know that rather most of them didn't go far enough.
Peter F Hamilton, the 'Nights Dawn' trilogy......
The sects in those books are fairly close(albeit mild compared to reality) to the real thing....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night%27s_Dawn_Trilogy