The Regime series premiere

[silverstarry]

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Kate Winslet stars in this limited series that chronicles a year within the walls of the palace of a modern European regime as it begins to unravel. Co-starring Matthias Schoenaerts, Guillaume Gallienne, Andrea Riseborough, Martha Plimpton and Hugh Grant

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[thrysus]

I was honestly expecting more from this. It all seems a little tired from the trailer

[silverstarry]

Even after watching the promo, I still wasn't sure what to expect from this show and even with that low bar, I was still disappointed in the first episode.

[angriest_girl]

I love Martha Plimpton, but Kate Winslet leaves me cold (hard to get past her support of Woody Allen), and this looks kind of dumb and annoying.

[j3]

With the world in such a shambles and the next presidential election looming in November, this doesn’t seem very entertaining. Not to mention, I truly can’t stand Kate Winslet and her feigned ignorance of the problematic directors she’s chosen to work with.

[deerlike]

I said this in a previous post, but it feels like it's trying (and failing) to ape Ianucci. Also I think the show would be better coming from an Eastern European director and cast who are actually familiar with the realities and absurdities of living under an authoritarian regime.

[kittenishgirl]

It has definite Death of Stalin vibes but not as "fun" and punchy.

[the4thjuliek]

The creator, Will Tracy, was one of the few American writers on Succession and while he did a good job of emulating British black humour in The Menu (I think it helped that the director was British as well as most the cast), I think it doesn't really work well here.

Political satire is so hard to get right; Iannucci is undoubtedly the master of it, and considering Tracy hasn't actually worked with him, it comes off as a bit try-hard.

I mean, Adam McKay (who, to be fair, directed the pilot of Succession and then fucked off lol) couldn't pull it off with Don't Look Up and Vice. The black humour and satire in both movies were so lazy.

[5368f65]

HBO actually did many local productions that explored the same subject. I only hear from friends how painfully funny some of the Hungarian ones were, but I think they must have had Czech and Polish ones, too. So they had to make an effort to mess it up.