Limited series about a European autocrat that's part Putin, part you-know-who aims for the jugular and can barely hit the funny bone.
plays Elena Vernham, the autocratic ruler of a small nation located somewhere in “Middle Europe.” Most of the action takes place inside Elena’s palace, and we frequently pay visits to a briefing room where Elena berates her cowed advisers. The room, with its huge round table and circular light fixture, very much resembles. It is probably meant as a nod to the greatest piece of political satire ever filmed.
Making a show in 2024 whose fundamental thesis is that autocracies are bad for everyone but the autocrats, and sometimes their friends, doesn’t exactly feel like a fresh or bold statement. Elena’s behavior has some echoes of Putin and Trump . But beyond that, there’s nothere.
Nearly every prominent character speaks with a UK accent, save for Elena’s husband Nicholas , whom she met in France, and Herbert, whom Schoenaerts plays with a slightly cartoonish Iron Curtain dialect. The idea, it seems, is to suggest that the world Elena moves in has nothing to do with the one Herbert is from, but like a lot ofis attempting to insert some level of drama into all the scenes about how the rest of the country has to dance to Elena’s ridiculous tunes.
The production design of the palace — a former luxury hotel Elena seized for her own use when she took power — is impressive, particularly in an episode where Elena gives a tour of the place to a discombobulated U.S. senator . And there are some cutting one-liners here and there — Elena welcomes Herbert to the “soup tureen of worms known as the bureaucracy,” and later complains that a political prisoner’s cell “smells like a hog’s urethra” — but not nearly as many as Tracy and everyone else on.
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