The series premiere of the new CBS summer series BrainDead will air Monday night - and here's how you can watch it online.

CBS is premiering a new political thriller/comedy called BrainDead on Monday, just in time for this election season. The series stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Tony Shalhoub, Danny Pino, Aaron Tveit, Nikki M. James and more.

Here is the plot synopsis courtesy of CBS:

"BrainDead is a comic-thriller set in the world of Washington, D.C. politics that follows Laurel [Winstead], a young, fresh-faced Hill staffer who discovers two things: the government has stopped working, and bugs are eating the brains of Congress members and Hill staffers. The daughter of a Democratic political dynasty who left Washington, D.C. to become a documentary filmmaker, Laurel is pulled back into the family business when her brother, Luke [Pino], the Democratic whip Senator from Maryland, needs her help running his Senate office. On the Hill, Laurel becomes unlikely friends with Gareth [Aaron Tveit], the smart, hardworking Legislative Director to a top Republican, Senator Red Wheatus [Shalhoub]. Her other allies include Gustav [Johnny Ray Gill], an eccentric genius who is the first in D.C. to recognize that something sinister is attacking the Capitol, and Rochelle [James], a medical student who teams up with Laurel and Gustav to protect and defend the citizens of D.C. from an untimely fate. As the tiny bugs continue to multiply, Laurel and her allies must work quickly to identify the other-worldly creatures, stop their infiltration and ultimately save the world."

The show was created and executive produced by Robert King and Michelle King, who were previously the showrunners on The Good Wife.

The series premieres at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.

If you're not able to watch the series premiere of BrainDead on a television, you still have options. To live stream the premiere, go to CBS All Access and sign up for a free trial. You should be able to watch the premiere alongside everybody else watching it on a TV. The episode should be up online Tuesday morning as well.

If you wish to live tweet the premiere of BrainDead, use hashtag #BrainDead on Twitter.

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