Has anyone else watched this? I thought it was very good. I haven't really seen a TV show like that before. Usually shows in this vein make the left wing character "good but flawed" thus "centrism is the real answer", but this one just doesn't go for that cop out at all and everyone to the right of the main character is basically a monster (from a long line of monsters going back to the middle ages). Its still very much a pre-Blair labor party kind of leftism, but its still good TV and does point to the flaws of that worldview, particularly with the very end.

The way it deals with the security apparatus is also very on point and prescient.

I don't want to spoil any of it, so if you haven't seen it, watch it. It's just three episodes and they are all on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACg6IuFfMJE

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[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Replacing nuclear power stations with coal is a silly unforced error. Also, brace-watching never, ever, give up your nukes.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Having now finished episode 3, episode 4 if it existed would be about him getting got like Allende.

[–] mayakovsky@hexbear.net 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah pretty much

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 2 points 5 days ago

He's at that dangerous point of being radical enough that the amerikkkan capitalist hegemony absolutely cannot tolerate him but not radical enough to take steps to prevent a CIA backed military coup.