Looking for an escape from this year’s political intrigue? Don’t turn on your TV

This election year has been so fraught with outsize storylines that reading the news can feel like reading a thick novel. Nominated for 26 Emmys, FX’s gorgeous drama about power struggles in feudal Japan revolves around Lord Yoshii Toranaga, a brilliant warlord seen as a threat by his fellow members on the Council of Regents. Meanwhile, Netflix’s “The Crown,” bowing out after six seasons with 18 nominations, continues its smart dramatic study of competing public and private political image. Matt Bomer, left, and Jonathan Bailey star in “Fellow Travelers,” a limited series whose juiciest political battles are fought in the 1950s, at the height of McCarthyism. The public/private schism drives “Fellow Travelers,” which has its own personal connection to the current presidential race in McCarthy’s closeted henchman, Roy Cohn, a onetime mentor to Donald Trump who was disbarred in 1986.