Michael Winterbottom’s new series says more about the Prime Minister’s love life than the state of the country
Is this man better suited to spouting Shakespeare than running the country? Is he a literary man or swaggering amateur? But it probably won’t have been the first time these questions have crossed your mind.
But for others, it might not go far enough. It presents the ongoing crises – both the world’s and Johnson’s – as an extended news reel, not saying anything new about the pandemic and even less about the politicians in charge .is a straightforward show, which doesn’t have to be a bad thing. A linear retelling of turbulent times can be clarifying, important even, and the scenes showing how Covid strained care homes and UK family life are undoubtedly moving.
. Kate Winslet, playing the film’s doomsday doctor, is explaining what the hell the R number is, a term no one had ever heard of and was suddenly everywhere. “It’s a bit like homework,” says Branagh as Boris, swilling a glass of red. It’s a moment many will be familiar with – how the stuff of disaster films became everyday life.
It’s here, in the Johnsons’ private, imagined moments, that Winterbottom’s drama works best. Another playful example: Carrie’s baby shower, at which
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