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Borgen

757 statements
149 feature instances
19 referencing feature instances

Borgen	type	TVTItem
Borgen	label	Borgen
Borgen	page	Borgen
Borgen	comment	DR, the broadcaster who brought you Forbrydelsen, now bring you The West Wing... in Denmark."Borgen" note /bÉ’wÉ™n/ is Danish for "The Castle", a nickname for the Christiansborg Palace, the centre of the Danish government. The actual Danish pronunciation is more like "Bauwen". (DR marketed the series with the overseas title Government, but The BBC and Link TV chose to use the Untranslated Title when transmitting it in English.) The show is a Danish Government Procedural by Adam Price, running from 2010 to 2013. It has been critically acclaimed for its realistic fictional parties and its lack of strawman stereotypes, getting very high ratings in Denmark. The main character is Prime Minister Birgitte Nyborg Christensen (Sidse Babett Knudsen), a minor centrist politician who becomes the first female Prime Minister of Denmark against all odds, and who is trying to balance politics, personal problems and her two kids.The supporting characters are Katrine FÃ¸nsmark (Birgitte Hjort SÃ¸rensen), a surprisingly intelligent journalist with a job at the public broadcaster TV1; her fellow journalist Hanne Holm (Benedikte Hansen), an equally bright, but alcoholic Team Mom; Kasper Juul (Pilou AsbÃ¦k), Birgitte's brilliant media consultant/spin doctor and Katrine's ex-boyfriend, who still carries a torch for her; Bent SejrÃ¸ (Lars Knutzon), Birgitte's mentor and Team Dad; and Michael Laugesen (Peter Mygind), the former Labour Party leader turned editor of the tabloid Ekspres (think The Sun) and Manipulative Bastard. Lars Mikkelsen appears in Seasons 3 and 4 as Soren Ravn, an ex-communist professor who joins Birgitte's party; in Season 4 he's in a relationship with Katrine.The third and final season was shown in Denmark in late 2012, and abroad in Britain and Australia in 2013. In 2020, it was announced that the series will revived for a fourth season in 2022, after a deal was struck between DR and Netflix. The fourth season, called Borgen: Power & Glory, ran in Denmark from February to April, 2022.
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Borgen / int_11b01fc7	type	Happy Marriage Charade
Borgen / int_11b01fc7	comment	Happy Marriage Charade: The Hesselboes. And by the end of series 1, the Nyborgs. The latter narrowly avert it by divorcing.
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Borgen / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Borgen / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Saltum bears a major physical resemblance to the late Mogens Glistrup◊, a far-right party leader. The backgrounds of the two Kharunese leaders greatly resemble the leaders of Sudan and South Sudan around the time Season 2 was aired: North Kharunese leader Omar al-Jawhar is said to have a pending ICC arrest warrant, not unlike Omar al-Bashir. Jakob Lokoya of South Kharun has a line seemingly drawn from Salva Kiir Mayardit's interview with Dutch radio where he discussed his homophobic views.
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Borgen / int_12b6fe15	type	Walk and Talk
Borgen / int_12b6fe15	comment	Walk and Talk: Usually averted, but employed deliberately in the finale of series 2, to express the different style of running government while Thorsen is in charge.
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Borgen / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Borgen / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Season 4 is considerably more cynical than the original trilogy, showing Birgitte holding to her power as foreign minister and Katrine navigating through editorial differences with star anchor Narciza Aydin; both set within the backdrop of an oil find in Greenland, where Arctic geopolitics, climate change, and Greenland's relations with Denmark are featured front and center.
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Borgen / int_170128e9	type	Right Behind Me
Borgen / int_170128e9	comment	Right Behind Me: In the second episode, Birgitte is summoned to see the Queen of Denmark so she can be appointed "Royal Investigator" (which means she can start negotiating a coalition). There's a delay and Birgitte wonders how long the... certain word for a woman... is going to be, as a footman arrives to tell her that Her Majesty is ready.
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Borgen / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Borgen / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop Almost every episode has the title mentioned somewhere in the dialogue. The 2022 revival season has one in the season (and apparently series) finale. As Birgitte is off to the climactic New Democrats leadership conference, a TV news anchor says "this is all about the power and the glory."
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Borgen / int_1b70ccc6	type	The Cynic
Borgen / int_1b70ccc6	comment	The Cynic: Kasper. In the first season finale Katrine marvels at how cynical he is even when writing speeches that connect with the hearts of the people, and she remembers how Kasper once said he could sell anyone's political platform.
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Borgen / int_1c96f945	type	Wrong-Name Outburst
Borgen / int_1c96f945	comment	Wrong-Name Outburst: Kasper calls Lotte "Katrine", right when they drink to moving in together.
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Borgen / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
Borgen / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: Kasper doesn't take Katrine's relationship with Benjamin well. Birgitte, who becomes suspicious of Phillip's (innocent) relationship with one of his female students.
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Borgen / int_21535375	type	Blonde Republican Sex Kitten
Borgen / int_21535375	comment	Blonde Republican Sex Kitten: Benedikte Nedergaard, Saltum's Starscream in the third season, is this, although (ironically given she's a Danish racial nationalist) she isn't blonde. When Ulrik asks point blank how much she trades on her looks, she retorts "As much as you do."
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Borgen / int_220c23cb	type	Condescending Compassion
Borgen / int_220c23cb	comment	Condescending Compassion: Basically Saltumâ€™s attitude towards delinquent Muslim teens living in poverty and Pernille Madsenâ€™s towards sex workers in S03E05.
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Borgen / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Borgen / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Magnus' drawing of whales as a grade schooler will come in handy towards the end of season 4.
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Borgen / int_27ba9b64	type	What Did I Do Last Night?
Borgen / int_27ba9b64	comment	What Did I Do Last Night?: In Season 2, Nyborg, drunken and emotionally destitute, impulsively sleeps with her driver. When she wakes up the next morning and sees her clothes strewn on the floor, you can tell this is what she is asking herself in her head.
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Borgen / int_280333d4	type	Hollywood Heart Attack
Borgen / int_280333d4	comment	Hollywood Heart Attack: Bent's stroke in the second season.
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Borgen / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
Borgen / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: The Liberals are right-wing, which makes them this trope for American viewers. However, note that in Denmark and most of the rest of Europe, the term is used exactly for the type of politics the Liberals stand for.
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Borgen / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
Borgen / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: Amir's attitude when Nyborg's concessions to polluters causes him to resign from both the Ministry of the Environment and the Green Party. Birgitte in season 4 betrays her principles to stay in Kragh's good graces to the point that Magnus quits political science and her party suffers from defections, up to and including co-founder Nadia, the Climate and Energy minister.
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Borgen / int_2db90f77	type	Contemplative Boss
Borgen / int_2db90f77	comment	Contemplative Boss: Birgitte is shown with her back to the viewer while looking out of a window and with her arms folded behind her at the end of the credit sequence.
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Borgen / int_32da91b8	type	Out of Focus
Borgen / int_32da91b8	comment	Out of Focus: Kasper in Season 3, which is surprising since he was one of the three protagonists in the first two seasons. But in the third season it's Katrine that's the spin doctor for Birgitte, and Torben that gets the storylines from the TV1 newsroom (an affair, a combative relationship with his new boss). Pilou AsbÃ¦k has little to do in the third season other than a brief storyline where he and Katrine are arguing about taking care of their son. He is Put on a Bus in Season 4, with Katrine briefly mentioning he works in London now. Laugesen is mostly absent in the third season, replaced by Alex as a more subtle evil media person. He returns to a more prominent role in the fourth season as a political commentator and Brigittes unofficial spin doctor.
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Borgen / int_33db913f	type	Open Mouth, Insert Foot
Borgen / int_33db913f	comment	Open Mouth, Insert Foot: Saltum realizes an instant too late that he has shot himself in the foot, when he blurts out on TV that pig farmers, including himself, raise "garbage" because it is what the consumers want.
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Borgen / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Borgen / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Saltum does permanent damage to his own career by chopping off a piglet's tail during a live TV interview. (It Makes Sense in Context.)
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Borgen / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
Borgen / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Kind of in limbo between the two, actually. Becomes especially apparent in comparison with its highly idealistic American and incredibly cynical British counterparts. The show partly focuses on Nyborg's struggles to reach her goals and make her premiership a success without compromising her integrity. Bent slides towards idealism, while Kasper slides towards cynicism. With the latter, so does Amir, eventually. In Power and Glory, Nyborg moves progressively in the cynical direction, starting by changing her position on the oil in Greenland to keep her job as Foreign Minister and hiring Laugesen as a spin doctor. By the end of the season, she's realised she has gone too far and moves back down the scale.
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Borgen / int_38ad0e6a	type	BreakingSpeech
Borgen / int_38ad0e6a	comment	Breaking Speech: By Saltum, when Kasper and Nyborg are successively forced to come to his office and apologize for antagonizing him.
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Borgen / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
Borgen / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Laugesen as Ekspres editor-in-chief, often gets into loggerheads with Katrine and Hanne over editorial decisions, with him forcing the two into chasing angles they are uncomfortable with.
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Borgen / int_3d69ca47	type	AmicablyDivorced
Borgen / int_3d69ca47	comment	Katrine and Kasper. By season 2 they finally get back together, between season 2 and 3 they have a child and get divorced, and by mid-season 3 they are finally Amicably Divorced.
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Borgen / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Borgen / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Laugesen is the most consistent example, though Kasper definitely has shades of this too. The entire Labour Party becomes a collective Manipulative Bastard when it tricks its own leader, BjÃ¸rn Marrot, into making a series of public gaffes in order to discredit and fire him. Jacob Kruse in the second series, until he badly over-reaches himself.
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Borgen / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Borgen / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: In the third-season finale, Birgitte's coalition narrowly loses the election and the previous right-wing governing coalition ends up up back in power, but Birgitte joins the coalition after the elections, gets them to tone down the policies she disagrees with, and becomes the Minister of Foreign Affairs, a job she is apparently very well-suited for, having an excellent command of English and French and having worked in business abroad.
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Borgen / int_414b064b	type	Lonely Funeral
Borgen / int_414b064b	comment	Lonely Funeral: The funeral of Kasper's abusive father is attended only by himself and Katrine.
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Borgen / int_45cd286c	type	Corrupt Politician
Borgen / int_45cd286c	comment	Corrupt Politician: Labor party leader Laugesen explicitly acknowledges that Denmark is run by a tiny circle of industrialists, media men and politicians. He has no problem with that, as long as he is among them.
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Borgen / int_47d35854	type	Intergenerational Friendship
Borgen / int_47d35854	comment	Intergenerational Friendship: Birgitte and Bent. He's old enough to be her father but they are close personal friends, she goes to him for personal advice when she's stressed, and of all the sacrifices she makes in Season 1, firing Bent is the worst.
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Borgen / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Borgen / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: BjÃ¸rn Marrot is this to his own party, in particular Laugesen.
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Borgen / int_483152c4	type	The Resenter
Borgen / int_483152c4	comment	The Resenter: Ulrik occasionally resented Katrine being assigned to report on the major (plot-relevant) news items in TV1.
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Borgen / int_4873cba8	type	I Was Young and Needed the Money
Borgen / int_4873cba8	comment	I Was Young and Needed the Money: What one minister basically says when it's revealed she was a lingerie model when younger.
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Borgen / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Borgen / int_49a2599d	comment	Platonic Prostitution: Laugesen hires an escort to seduce HÃ¶xenhaven. Katrine and Hanne find out and hire the same escort to tell them about it.
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Borgen / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Borgen / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: The job nearly does this to Nyborg on a few occasions.
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Borgen / int_4e4ea654	type	Workaholic
Borgen / int_4e4ea654	comment	Workaholic: Birgitte morphs into one of these over the course of the series. In her defence, she is the Prime Minister. Also Katrine, although not to the same extent.
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Borgen / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Borgen / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: In the first episode, Birgitte and her family enter Christiansborg in triumph after an unexpectedly successful election - and then again in the last one.
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Borgen / int_566f1565	type	10-Minute Retirement
Borgen / int_566f1565	comment	10-Minute Retirement: Shortly after leaving due to persistent media attention to his past as a card-carrying communist, SÃ¸ren Ravn is recruited back into the New Democrats to help hash out their economic policy the following episode. Katrine walks back on her sacking of Narciza after receiving heavy backlash of it. Magnus drops out of political science after seeing his mother turn into the dark side. He returns once Birgitte arranges to get herself transferred to Brussels.
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Borgen / int_5679208c	type	No Bisexuals
Borgen / int_5679208c	comment	No Bisexuals: The reaction to Troels Hoxenhaven's affair with a rent boy reeks of this.
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Borgen / int_567e7c4d	type	Wounded Gazelle Gambit
Borgen / int_567e7c4d	comment	Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Saltum tries this when he is mugged by hoodlums, using his ordeal to force the issue of enacting tougher penalties for juvenile offenders.
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Borgen / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
Borgen / int_5798bfbf	comment	Reassigned to Antarctica: In episode 2-2, being assigned to the EU as a commissioner is described as this since it apparently has been used to get rid of politicians who were too troublesome on the homefront; the discussion provides the episode title, "In Brussels, No One Can Hear You Scream". Episode 4-1 has Birgitte transfer Arctic ambassador Kaare Mathiesen to a consular post in Manila after leaking news of the Greenland oil find to Ekspres.
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Borgen / int_582f5a70	type	This Is the Part Where...
Borgen / int_582f5a70	comment	This Is the Part Where...: As Birgitte leans on the American ambassador in a fateful Season 4 meeting, he says "I guess this is the point where I ask how I can scratch your back?"
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Borgen / int_59788b2c	type	Hiding Behind the Language Barrier
Borgen / int_59788b2c	comment	Hiding Behind the Language Barrier: Subverted. A touchy moment in Season 4 has Birgitte negotiating with the Chinese ambassador, about Greenland, with each of them speaking in English. Birgitte's deputy leans into her ear and mutters in Danish about how she should be careful when discussing "telecommunications and rare earth metals." Soon after the staffer leaves, the Chinese ambassador catches Birgitte by surprise by switching to Danish, in which he is fluent.
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Borgen / int_59932dd2	type	Big Brother Is Watching This Index
Borgen / int_59932dd2	comment	Malik Johansen in season 4 is implied to have committed suicide after a botched attempt at bugging a meeting on behalf of the PET. Asger and Tanja believe he didn't.
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Borgen / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
Borgen / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: Laugesen according to himself. To the point where he assures Birgitte that one of the New Democrats' senior members is loyal to her because he slept with her.
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Borgen / int_5f3bb274	type	Late-Arrival Spoiler
Borgen / int_5f3bb274	comment	Late-Arrival Spoiler: The Nyborgs are divorced by season 2.
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Borgen / int_5f52cfcf	type	Intrepid Reporter
Borgen / int_5f52cfcf	comment	Intrepid Reporter: In the first two seasons, Katrine and Hanne's muckraked on whatever issue the government was dealing with. And their investigations don't stop at political matters - they even dug deep on HÃ¶x's death after Laugesen tried to browbeat the two into outing the guy. Torben in season 4 as a political commentator is shown to be no slouch either where he helps Katrine with material on the dynamics of Kragh's government. He, after all, has a Cavling prize to his name.
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Borgen / int_5f5aa5af	type	Bulungi
Borgen / int_5f5aa5af	comment	Bulungi: Two Season 2 episodes deal with Birgitte negotiating a peace agreement between the central government and the separatist southern region of a fictitious East African nation called Kharun, which is definitely not Sudan. (Just like Sudan, the northern region has Arabic-looking people who are mostly Muslim, and the southern region has sub-Saharan-looking people who are mostly Christian.)
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Borgen / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Borgen / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: A startling one between Seasons 2 and 3. Season 2 ends with a couple of big sequel hooks, namely Birgitte calling an election, and Kasper agreeing to have a child with Katrine. Season 3 skips forward 2 1/2 years to reveal that the election happened, Birgitte lost, and she is out of politics; and Kasper and Katrine got married, had their baby, and divorced.
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Borgen / int_602bf60a	type	Sorry That I'm Dying
Borgen / int_602bf60a	comment	Sorry That I'm Dying: So writes JÃ¸rgen HedegÃ¥rd's son, serving in Afghanistan, in his last letter to his father.
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Borgen / int_60cc14ba	type	Ruritania
Borgen / int_60cc14ba	comment	Ruritania: One episode revolves around the visit of the president of the former Soviet republic of Turgisia.
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Borgen / int_61313315	type	Off the Wagon
Borgen / int_61313315	comment	Off the Wagon: Inevitably, Hanne Holm. In one episode Kasper and Katrine have to work together to sneak Hanne out of the building, after she comes stumbling out of a bathroom stall, falling-down drunk. Out of a mens' room stall.
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Borgen / int_6383a034	type	The Mutiny
Borgen / int_6383a034	comment	The Mutiny: Hanne and Ulrik stage one of these in season 3 when Alex has Torben fired for scrapping Alex's plan to stage the final debate like a cheesy game show.
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Borgen / int_64b303c0	type	Drunk with Power
Borgen / int_64b303c0	comment	Drunk with Power: Averted in the first three seasons. Nyborg keeps a good head on her shoulders where her job is concerned, despite the havoc it wreaks on her personal life. Season 4 has Birgitte's descent into this shown front and center.
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Borgen / int_661a66d8	type	Animal Wrongs Group
Borgen / int_661a66d8	comment	Animal Wrongs Group: Season 4 finds Birgitte's son Magnus having aged into an extremely irritating, politically strident college student. He's part of an animal rights group that steals a truck full of pigs and sets the pigs free. The pigs wander out onto a highway and half of them have to be euthanized.
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Borgen / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
Borgen / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: As stated above, Hanne Holm is herself one, having been absent for most of her daughter's childhood and all but loosing contact with her after her divorce, after which custody of the then five-year-old was granted to her ex-husband.
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Borgen / int_67d90683	type	Fictional Political Party
Borgen / int_67d90683	comment	Fictional Political Party: The seven parties are not the real-life ones in Denmark, but some mirror the actual ones to a degree. They also seem to represent a simplified left-right "sliding scale" that's easier for the viewer to understand. Nyborg's centre-left coalition consists of: The Solidarisk Samling/Solidarity Party (hard-left with Muslims like Aicha Nagrawi, led by Anna-Sophie Linderkrone, resembling the real-life Red-Green Coalition) The MiljÃ¸partiet/Green Party (left-wing & green like the Socialist People's Party, led by Amir Diwan) The Arbejderpartiet/Labour Party (centre-left, like the real-life Social Democrats, and modernising under Laugesen) The De Moderate/Moderate Party (centre-left/centre, like the Social Liberal Party in real-life). On the right, meanwhile, are: The De Liberale/Liberals (centre-right, clearly based on the real-life Venstre) The Ny HÃ¸jre/New Right (right-wing conservative, led by Yvonne KjÃ¦r, similar to the Conservative People's Party) The Frihedspartiet/Freedom Party (hard-right and stated to be descended from Glistrup's Progress, just like the real-life Danish People's Party). In the third season, we get the Nye Demokrater/New Democrats, another centre-left party, as the Moderates move centre-right.
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Borgen / int_68a77024	type	Untranslated Title
Borgen / int_68a77024	comment	Untranslated Title: Borgen means "The Castle" in Danish, but is often used as a slang expression for the government similar to "The Kremlin." DR marketed the series in English-speaking countries as Government, but the BBC decided to go with the untranslated original.
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Borgen / int_6a1a1f8a	type	Glasses Pull
Borgen / int_6a1a1f8a	comment	Glasses Pull: Katrine's editor at TV1 whips off his glasses a lot, like when Katrine produces her previously anonymous source from military intelligence at the station, or when he's screaming with rage after Katrine broke an agreement and asked a personal question of PM Nyborg during an interview.
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Borgen / int_6acb79b2	type	Episode Title Card
Borgen / int_6acb79b2	comment	Episode Title Card: Each episode gets two: one with an apposite quote at the very beginning, and one with the actual title right after the credits.
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Borgen / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Borgen / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: several examples Alex Hjort, Torben's boss in season 3. Heâ€™s smug, condescending and only cares about the ratings, but Torbenâ€™s serious high standards are of little interest to the viewers, who are paying for TV1 with their tax money, and his suggestion to liven up the first debate turns out to be a success. Subverted towards the end of the season when he goes too far with the third debate. Saltum, when he points out Birgitte's poor negotiation techniques and tthe fact that she's wasting time talking to him.
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Borgen / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Borgen / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Troels is involuntarily outed after a sting operation involving a male escort posing as a photographer. Birgitte tries to convince him that it doesn't have to end his political career, but he is clearly shattered by it and ends up committing suicide. Katrine's source in episode 1-4 kills himself after he receives a threat that an old criminal case of his will be divulged. Malik Johansen in season 4 is implied to have committed suicide after a botched attempt at bugging a meeting on behalf of the PET. Asger and Tanja believe he didn't.
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Borgen / int_6d89ad1a	type	The Ophelia
Borgen / int_6d89ad1a	comment	The Ophelia: Nyborg's daughter Laura has a complete mental breakdown in Season 2. Her parents have to commit her to a sanitarium for therapy, something that gets weaponized against Birgitte.
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Borgen / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
Borgen / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: Emil Poulsen (Magnus) played Sidse Babett Knudsen's son before in the 2009 movie Over Gaden Under Vandet (released internationally as Above the Street, Below The Water).
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Borgen / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Borgen / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Saltum, who is incredibly racist, and can come to an American viewer as quite redneck-ish. Laugesen at first professes to be left-wing, but he's later shown to be homophobic, sexist towards Nyborg, bigoted towards immigrants, basically completely unprincipled in the pursuit of power, and Islamophobic e-mails eventually bring down his political career. Once his political career is over and he takes over as editor of the Ekspres he becomes an anti-PC populist, and when Nyborg goes after the Moderates in Season 3 the Ekspres starts running muck-raking headlines about what a bitch she is, suggesting that Laugesen ends up in bed with the Moderates.
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Borgen / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Borgen / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Kasper, who went Out of Focus in Season 3, is simply absent from the 2022 revival. There's a throwaway mention of him that explains he now works in London.
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Borgen / int_763ac306	type	Mandatory Unretirement
Borgen / int_763ac306	comment	Mandatory Unretirement: After giving up politics, Amir gets dragged in again when Birgitte picks him as her necessary Arabic-speaking and Islamic representative in the Kharun peace talks. Happens to Birgitte herself when she loses the general election announced at the end of Season 2, and subsequently leaves office. Two years later, Birgitte has no plans to resume a political career until she sees how Jacob Kruse is toeing the line to Hesselboe's agenda and making the Moderate Party increasingly right-wing.
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Borgen / int_77063cd7	type	Hooker with a Heart of Gold
Borgen / int_77063cd7	comment	Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Episodes 5 of season 3 revolves around the issue of protection and rights of sex workers, featuring the head of the Danish sex workersâ€™ union, Helene, who is very pleased with her work. This trope is discussed in depth, and Helene says she is opposed to this term, as â€˜you never hear about a happy real estate agentâ€™.
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Borgen / int_775a1af6	type	Married to the Job
Borgen / int_775a1af6	comment	Married to the Job: As Bent reveals at the end of series 1, virtually everyone in Christiansborg suffers from this to some extent. Divorces and open marriages are common among the politicians. Hanne Holm, which led to her ex-husband gaining sole custody of their daughter. Then of course there's Birgitte herself, who got divorced and was a semi-absentee mother for much of her children's lives. In the 2022 revival series she says she's glad that she's got an empty nest now and she can devote herself completely to politics—but she also regards the possibility of resignation with horror, observing that she lives alone and sends herself flowers and wondering who she is if she's not working 19-hour days as the Foreign Minister.
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Borgen / int_7994c93a	type	Violence Really Is the Answer
Borgen / int_7994c93a	comment	Violence Really Is the Answer: After speaking with representatives of Afghan non-governmental organisations, who thank her for her country's aid in fighting the Taliban and urge her to keep the troops on the ground until the Afghans are ready to fend for themselves, Nyborg begins to rethink her position on Denmark's presence in Afghanistan.
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Borgen / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Borgen / int_7a12aabf	comment	New Media Are Evil: As the editor of the tabloid Ekspres, Laugesen uses vitriolic viral video editorials to constantly criticize Nyborg and her coalition allies. DR runs a fake website for Ekspres which features videos by both Laugesen and Saltum. In season 3, TV1's Torben Friis is asked by his boss to sex up political coverage with game show-style political debates, etc.
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Borgen / int_7ab81664	type	Kick Them While They Are Down
Borgen / int_7ab81664	comment	Kick Them While They Are Down: In the first debate in season 3, Ulrik is made to do this to Birgitte, revealing that she had little understanding of her own political platform. What makes this extra harsh is that itâ€™s due to her cancer treatments damaging her ability to stay alert and focused.
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Borgen / int_7c14d0f2	type	Rejected Apology
Borgen / int_7c14d0f2	comment	Rejected Apology: In the third season, Laugesen tries to apologise to Birgitte privately for his persecution of Laura when she was mentally ill, but Birgitte refuses to accept any apology unless it's in the paper as prominently as the original stories.
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Borgen / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
Borgen / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: The Labour party in season 1, aimed both at Birgitte and at each other. Lampshaded by Marrot, who admits they have a reputation for infighting.
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Borgen / int_7cf2f728	type	Boomerang Bigot
Borgen / int_7cf2f728	comment	Boomerang Bigot: Nadia Suleiman, a Pakistani woman who starts out as a financial commentator for TV1 but is fired because its director sees her as a "Palestinian [sic] end-days prophet". Later she goes on to be integration spokesperson at the New Democrats, where it is eventually revealed that she didn't want people from lesser developed countries (with radical ideas like Salafism) in Denmark - even some of her family. She says this in a way that sounds like a coded race appeal. To be fair, she did tell them.
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Borgen / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Borgen / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Kasper gives one to Saltum in Episode 16, calling him a "political parasite". In the second episode, Hanne Holm gives a particularly vocal one about Katrine's shallow understanding of journalism. In the fourth season finale, we get a literal example. Bent makes a speech at the emergency New Democrat congress where he says he no long recognises Birgitte and endorses her leadership rival. It proves effective and Birgitte realises she has gone too far. She gets Kragh to reverse the decision to exploit the oil find in Denmark, before coming out to resign as party leader.
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Borgen / int_7e95adeb	type	High-Class Call Girl
Borgen / int_7e95adeb	comment	High-Class Call Girl: A High-Class Call Boy becomes the source of HÃ¶xenhaven's demise.
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Borgen / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Borgen / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Hanne Holm, at least in the first two episodes of the first series and again in the first episode of the second.
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Borgen / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Borgen / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Kasper's attempt to damage Amir's image to make the Greens more co-operative leads to Amir getting monstered by the press so badly that he gives up politics completely, the Greens leave the coalition, and Birgitte is left leading a minority government. Nyborg's idea to call a new general election leads to the end of her government; her resignation as prime minister; the return of Hesselboe to office; and the return of Kruse, who proceeds to make the Moderates as right-wing as Hesselboe's party.
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Borgen / int_8387bb18	type	Good Girls Avoid Abortion
Borgen / int_8387bb18	comment	Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Zig Zagged. In the first series, Katrine finds out she is pregnant as the result of an affair with a married (dead) man, but decides to keep the baby regardless. When her mother finds out, she puts Katrine under considerable pressure to have an abortion, and Katrine, hurt at her mother's lack of support, relents. Though she clearly didn't want to have the termination, she recovers and moves on with her life.
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Borgen / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
Borgen / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: Hanne is sharp enough to catch on that Katrine is sexually involved with someone powerful. Unfortunately, she's too self-involved with her own sacking and assumes Katrine slept with the news editor.
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Borgen / int_8430699a	type	Alternate Universe
Borgen / int_8430699a	comment	Alternate Universe: Not only does Borgen exist in a universe where Denmark's political parties are different, but its media catalogue and, in the case of Turgisia and Kharun, its international geography are alien to reality.
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Borgen / int_8f04c3f	type	Photo Op with the Dog
Borgen / int_8f04c3f	comment	Photo Op with the Dog: Laugesen suggests Birgitte model her Instagram profile to be similar to Signe Kragh's. It kinda works.
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Borgen / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Borgen / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Kasper and Birgitte try to damage Amir by accusing him of hypocrisy for promoting environmentalism while owning a gas-guzzling classic car, and the resulting press persecution of him and his family drives him out of politics. By the end of the series, the same thing has (temporarily) happened to Birgitte and her family after the row over her daughter being sent to a private mental hospital. Josva tells Birgitte that his recent whaling difficulties may have been the Mother of the Sea's way of getting back at him for accepting said boat as a bribe from the Chinese.
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Borgen / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
Borgen / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: A firmly-held belief by Kasper. Not so with Saltum.
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Borgen / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
Borgen / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: In a stressful moment in Season 4 Birgitte drops by to visit Bent, her old political mentor, now retired. She's saddened to discover that Bent is being tested for dementia. Niels Erik, the Statsministeriet's permanent secretary, doesn't appear for most of Season 3 except for a bit in the season finale where he welcomes Birgitte outside of the PM's office.
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Borgen / int_95a4c6df	type	Wild Card
Borgen / int_95a4c6df	comment	Wild Card: In the second debate, Birgitte reveals that her party will become this and refuse to declare anyone as their preferred candidate for Prime Minister.
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Borgen / int_96b68af2	type	Desk Sweep of Rage
Borgen / int_96b68af2	comment	Desk Sweep of Rage: In episode 1-10 Birgitte freaks out and sweeps everything off her desk, including a glass vase that smashes, after simultaneously she 1) has to fire Bent and 2) has found out her husband wants a divorce.
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Borgen / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Borgen / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: A question to Birgitte from someone at one of her lectures, in the first episode of the third season, mentions how she lost the general election to Hesselboe and retired from politics. This imparts the necessary information to the audience. Some back and forth between Birgitte and her staffer in the first episode of Season 4 reveals that 1) she is Foreign Minister, 2) serving in the government of PM Signe Kragh, and 3) she and Kragh don't like each other even as they are serving together.
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Borgen / int_99e87707	type	When You Coming Home, Dad?
Borgen / int_99e87707	comment	When You Coming Home, Dad?: Birgitte and her kids constantly, and Katrine and her son in the final season.
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Borgen / int_9a68179	type	Holding the Floor
Borgen / int_9a68179	comment	Holding the Floor: Essentially what Saltum tries to do when he arranges to have Nyborg questioned before parliament over her government's approach to juvenile offenders.
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Borgen / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Borgen / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Emmy, Asger, and Malik climb Nakkaavik, a cliff where the elderly used to jumped from during famines. At the end of the episode, we see a shot of Malik's corpse on the same location.
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Borgen / int_9d352e21	type	Overly-Nervous Flop Sweat
Borgen / int_9d352e21	comment	Overly-Nervous Flop Sweat: In episode 3-4 Svend Age makes a political blunder by chopping off a pig's tail live on TV. It's a thing that pig farmers do to stop pigs from biting each other, but it looks super-bad on TV. The next day he is desperately mopping his huge bald forehead in front of the press, while his spin doctor attempts to contain the damage.
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Borgen / int_9e1e14ea	type	Ambition Is Evil
Borgen / int_9e1e14ea	comment	Ambition Is Evil: Maybe not evil, but certainly not good. The show has a rogues gallery of careerist backstabbers, particularly HÃ¶xenhaven. And from the second series, Jakob Kruse, who compromises the principles of the party and creates a split for it.
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Borgen / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
Borgen / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: Birgitte Hjort SÃ¸rensen was influenced by The West Wing, specifically CJ Cregg, in her portrayal of Katrine; her line delivery is done in a way that makes her sound like CJ... especially when she speaks English.
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Borgen / int_a31c79f3	type	Paparazzi
Borgen / int_a31c79f3	comment	Paparazzi: A particularly unspeakable case, persecuting mentally fragile psychiatric patients.
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Borgen / int_a5f5b4e0	type	Playing the Victim Card
Borgen / int_a5f5b4e0	comment	Playing the Victim Card: Both Birgitte and Kasper accuse Saltum of this, with good reason: his political tactics are usually based on saying disgusting things in public and claiming to be the victim of Political Correctness when people get angry.
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Borgen / int_ab9d55f1	type	Foot-Dragging Divorcee
Borgen / int_ab9d55f1	comment	Foot-Dragging Divorcee: Nyborg doesn't really want to divorce Philipp in season 2, and delays signing the papers for a while. Even after she agrees to the divorce, she keeps trying to win him back until he accuses her of being in denial about how far apart they've grown.
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Borgen / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Borgen / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Laugesen's attempt to discredit Hesselboe during a televised debate spectacularly backfires when the voters reject both him and Hesselboe in favor of Nyborg.
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Borgen / int_aebae11c	type	Viewers Are Morons
Borgen / int_aebae11c	comment	Viewers Are Morons: Invoked in Alex's attempts to reshape TV1's news broadcasts.
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Borgen / int_af2547c9	type	Informed Flaw
Borgen / int_af2547c9	comment	Informed Flaw: Kasper has a reputation as a heart-breaker, but on-screen he shows interest in a grand total of three women, only one of whom he ever actually had a relationship with. Less so in series 2, when we start to see more of Kasper's dysfunctional dealings with women.
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Borgen / int_b1191cb2	type	I Ate WHAT?!
Borgen / int_b1191cb2	comment	I Ate WHAT?!: Birgitte is thoroughly enjoying a dinner in Hong Kong in the Season 3 premiere. When her boyfriend tells her it's snake, she gets sick.
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Borgen / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Borgen / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Kasper was sexually abused by his father.
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Borgen / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Borgen / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Katrine has Torben promoted to TV1's political editor in exchange for refraining from criticism of Signe Kragh's government, as the network is in the middle of funding negotiations. He decides to blast the government on air as political editor.
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Borgen / int_b6de94d1	type	Executive Meddling
Borgen / int_b6de94d1	comment	Executive Meddling: In-Universe. Not as prominent in the first two seasons, as season 3 shows that Torben had a sympathetic direct superior. All hell breaks loose once Alex Hjort comes in though. TV1 happens to be in the middle of funding negotiations with the government in season 4. Cue Frederik "suggesting" Birgitte to kill off a feature on the Kragh government and refraining from criticizing the administration.
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Borgen / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Borgen / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: Courtesy of Birgitte: "I've never asked for a man's approval in my entire life! How do I look?"
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Borgen / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Borgen / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Series 3 flirts with the idea with, on the one hand, Nyborg, her ex-husband Philip, and her new English boyfriend Jeremy, and, on the other hand, Katrine, her ex Kasper, and new lover Soren Ravn. For the most part it's averted though, and both women are still with their new partners by the time the series ends.
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Borgen / int_bb0c0a4d	type	Fiery Redhead
Borgen / int_bb0c0a4d	comment	Fiery Redhead: Nete Buch in the third series combines her brilliance on the debate floor with childlike enthusiasm.
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Borgen / int_c0bfb059	type	Against My Religion
Borgen / int_c0bfb059	comment	Against My Religion: Subverted. After successfully pulling off the peace treaty in Africa, Bent and Amir celebrate modestly with a bottle of fine brandy:
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Borgen / int_c132c0c5	type	I Have No Son!
Borgen / int_c132c0c5	comment	I Have No Son!: An odd "I Have No Justice Minister" example is Birgitte's reaction when she discovers that HÃ¶x leaked a recording of Anne Sophie contemplating abduction in order to save his job.
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Borgen / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
Borgen / int_c145f69b	comment	Alex Hjort, Torben's boss in season 3. Heâ€™s smug, condescending and only cares about the ratings, but Torbenâ€™s serious high standards are of little interest to the viewers, who are paying for TV1 with their tax money, and his suggestion to liven up the first debate turns out to be a success. Subverted towards the end of the season when he goes too far with the third debate.
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Borgen / int_c19bdbe1	type	Good Cop/Bad Cop
Borgen / int_c19bdbe1	comment	Good Cop/Bad Cop: Asger tells his boss Birgitte that they need to lean on the American ambassador to help Birgitte out, now that she is in a difficult position because she did the ambassador a favor. He suggests they use the good cop, bad cop routine.
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Borgen / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Borgen / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Several prominent political characters from the first two seasons disappear after the Time Skip between Seasons 2 and 3 and Season 3 and 4. note This can be considered Truth in Television: elections took place, some characters lost their seat or didn't stand for election at all, and disappeared from the political arena as a result Lars Hesselboe, who was the Liberal prime minister (and Brigitte's boss) at the end of Season 3, doesn't return in Season 4, most likely due to SÃ¸ren Spanning (the actor who played Hesselboe) passing away in 2020. No mention of his fate is given in-universe, but the fact that the prime minister (Kragh) in Season 4 is from the Labour party, implies that his party lost the last election, and he stepped down as party leader. Both Hanne Holm and Ulrik (one of the news anchors and Katrine's former rival in the newsroom) seem to have left TV1 before the start Season 4. While this can probably be explained as both having moved on to different jobs, the former isn't mentioned at all, even though Katrine and Hanne were quite close. Ulrik is at least mentioned in Episode 7, where his salary is used as a bargaining chip so Narciza could get a raise.
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Borgen / int_c515d358	type	America Saves the Day
Borgen / int_c515d358	comment	America Saves the Day: Well, Denmark, but part of the reason Nyborg resolves the Kharun conflict is to improve upon Denmark's reputation as a xenophobic country.
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Borgen / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Borgen / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: The actor playing him is handsome, but Kasper's ass isn't.
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Borgen / int_c77ad743	type	Mentor Archetype
Borgen / int_c77ad743	comment	Mentor Archetype: Bent to Nyborg; Friis and Hanne Holm to Katrine. It is also heavily implied that Nyborg was this to Lindekrone.
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Borgen / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Borgen / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Kasper was abused as a child, leading to his present-day cynicism and intimacy issues.
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Borgen / int_ca3a6dbd	type	Informed Ability
Borgen / int_ca3a6dbd	comment	Informed Ability: Birgitte is supposedly an experienced politician, yet seems to be unaware of even the most elementary aspects of politics. She needs people to explain to her that government positions such as minister of education and minister of health care are liabilities rather than assets for a political party since they require large budgets but confer no bargaining power. Similarly, the leader of the extreme right party has to explain to her that negotiations between them are a waste of time because the two parties have no common ground and cannot form a government together and even has to point out to her that when negotiating from strength one should sit at the head of the table. Even her family joins in this. Neither her husband nor her children appear to have any idea of the amount of time and energy that her job as prime-minister will require. Bent, who is considered a veteran of Danish politics gives up after less than one day of negotiations, whereas in reality such negotiations commonly take weeks or months. Tore Gudme is an in-universe example. Supposedly skilled in rhetoric he falls well short of the mark and is fired from his position as spin-doctor.
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Borgen / int_ca5eda76	type	Heteronormative Crusader
Borgen / int_ca5eda76	comment	Heteronormative Crusader: One scene in season 2 has Birgitte warned in advance that South Kharun's leader holds strongly homophobic views.
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Borgen / int_d1cedb73	type	Slap-Slap-Kiss
Borgen / int_d1cedb73	comment	Slap-Slap-Kiss: Kasper and Katrine have this dynamic in the first two seasons.
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Borgen / int_d46899fc	type	Business Trip Adultery
Borgen / int_d46899fc	comment	Business Trip Adultery: A secondary plot of season 4 centers on Asger's affair with the married Emmy Rasmussen.
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Borgen / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
Borgen / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Kasper, in his role as Nyborg's spin doctor.
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Borgen / int_d68c925d	type	Creator Provincialism
Borgen / int_d68c925d	comment	Creator Provincialism: The government is shown mostly dealing with the country's internal affairs rather than international ones. Aversions include: Season 1 has plots dealing with CIA operations in Greenland and a state visit from the fictional post-Soviet country of Turgisia. Season 2 with the Afghanistan and Kharun storylines. Season 4 goes back to Greenland, but the great powers get involved this time around.
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Borgen / int_d7472e4f	type	Kicked Upstairs
Borgen / int_d7472e4f	comment	Kicked Upstairs: Nyborg ejects Jacob Kruse from her inner circle and appoints him as Denmark's EU Commissioner when he betrays her and Bent by deliberately endangering Bent by not sharing that he'd had a stroke and should cut back on work, all to lay groundwork for his own future campaign for prime minister. To make it worse, because he is assigned late, he is given a very minor position. Birgitte herself in Season 4, which finds her as Foreign Minister in PM Kragh's government. This should be a pretty powerful position, but Kragh regards Birgitte as a political rival, and she has put Birgitte in charge of foreign affairs to ice her out of domestic Danish politics. She also does petty things like scheduling her own press conferences at the same time as Birgitte's in order to rob Birgitte of publicity. At the end of the season, Birgitte arranges for herself to be kicked upstairs even further, getting appointed as EU Commissioner! Katrine has Torben promoted to TV1's political editor in exchange for refraining from criticism of Signe Kragh's government, as the network is in the middle of funding negotiations. He decides to blast the government on air as political editor.
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Borgen / int_d8a7295a	type	What If the Baby Is Like Me
Borgen / int_d8a7295a	comment	What If the Baby Is Like Me: Kasper's extreme unwillingness to have children, due to not wanting to continue the line of his abusive father, and/or fearing that he'll become abusive once he has a child.
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Borgen / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Borgen / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Nadia Barazani quits on her Climate and Energy ministerial post, and the New Democrats over Birgitte's U-turn on the Greenland oil issue.
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Borgen / int_dca6a9d	type	Start My Own
Borgen / int_dca6a9d	comment	Start My Own: Kruse refuses to let Birgitte back into the Moderate Party at the beginning of Season 3. She challenges him for Moderate Party leadership and fails. So she's left out in the political wilderness... until she decides to form her own new party, the New Democrats.
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Borgen / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Borgen / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Birgitte herself, and also Torben Friis (mostly).
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Borgen / int_de6a1563	type	Loyal to the Position
Borgen / int_de6a1563	comment	Loyal to the Position: Niels Erik remains the Prime Minister's permanent secretary by season 4. Discussed in season 4 where Oliver asks Rasmus whether he should remain loyal to Birgitte or the ministry. The latter tells him to be loyal to both, but that he should preferably pick the ministry over the minister.
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Borgen / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
Borgen / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: Laugesen is introduced as the leader of the Labour party, which would make him the principal antagonist of the heroine. But he is immediately removed from office and turns to journalism, which makes him more of a minor annoyance.
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Borgen / int_df4b69d6	type	Uncomfortable Elevator Moment
Borgen / int_df4b69d6	comment	Uncomfortable Elevator Moment: Birgitte is interviewed on TV1, and Katrine is horrified to watch 1) Birgitte doing a 180 on drilling for oil live on the air, 2) Katrine's interviewer refusing to press Birgitte. Immediately afterward they both wind up on the same elevator downstairs. Katrine says that if she'd been asking the questions she would have nailed Birgitte, and Birgitte essentially answers that she wasn't, so too bad.
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Borgen / int_e2f5760	type	House Husband
Borgen / int_e2f5760	comment	House Husband: Phillip. Denmark having a different view of gender roles than in the Americas, of course no-one bats an eyelid.
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Borgen / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
Borgen / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: The credits contain a not-quite-standard disclaimer, declaring (paraphrased) "no similarity is intended or should be inferred to real persons or events after 1982".
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Borgen / int_e6b5d22f	type	Catchphrase
Borgen / int_e6b5d22f	comment	Catchphrase: Birgitte to Bent when she needs his advice on a thorny situation: Asger to Birgitte when she also needs his advice. This one shows how cynical the latter had become by season 4:
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Borgen / int_e70127	type	The Mole
Borgen / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Nete becomes Kruse's mole in the New Democrats after she loses faith in their ability to succeed.
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Borgen / int_eb5b71fe	type	Clingy Jealous Girl
Borgen / int_eb5b71fe	comment	Clingy Jealous Girl: Nyborg, when her ex starts seeing another woman that her children like.
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Borgen / int_ed05cfee	type	NaÃ¯ve Newcomer
Borgen / int_ed05cfee	comment	NaÃ¯ve Newcomer: Nyborg, to an extent. She didn't expect being elected prime minister prior to the election.
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Borgen / int_f065f2bd	type	Pompous Political Pundit
Borgen / int_f065f2bd	comment	Pompous Political Pundit: Laugesen on screen is just as much of an asshole as he is on print.
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Borgen / int_f0fe7e80	type	But Now I Must Go
Borgen / int_f0fe7e80	comment	But Now I Must Go: Having made one too many soul-killing compromises in Season 4, mostly flip-flopping on the Greenland oil issue, and having some dark personal moments like when she insults her own son on live television, Birgitte decides she needs to get out of politics. She surprises everyone by resigning her posts, although PM Kragh is apparently going to appoint her to a non-political role as Denmark's representative to the European Commission.
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Borgen / int_f43028b4	type	Deck of Wild Cards
Borgen / int_f43028b4	comment	Deck of Wild Cards: The Labour Party goes through a revolving door of leaders up until halfway into season 2.
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Borgen / int_f641252f	type	Da Editor
Borgen / int_f641252f	comment	Da Editor: Laugesen for Ekspres and Torben for TV1 in the original trilogy. Katrine becomes this for the latter in season 4.
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Borgen / int_f909b16b	type	Dark Secret
Borgen / int_f909b16b	comment	Dark Secret: Kasper's childhood. He was sexually abused by his father, who also let other pedophiles have their way with him. Kasper eventually snapped and stabbed his father, leading him to be sent in a juvenile institution with his identity changed. Kasper remains haunted by his past, and tries to keep it hidden from Katrine through pathological lies, until he eventually sends her a recording of the news story reporting his father's arrest. It is also the reason why Kasper rips into Saltum when he moves to lower Denmark's legal age of criminal responsibility to 12.
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Borgen / int_fba729d7	type	The War Room
Borgen / int_fba729d7	comment	The War Room: During the Somali hostage crisis.
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Borgen / int_fbd5fda1	type	Friendly Rivalry
Borgen / int_fbd5fda1	comment	Both Hanne Holm and Ulrik (one of the news anchors and Katrine's former rival in the newsroom) seem to have left TV1 before the start Season 4. While this can probably be explained as both having moved on to different jobs, the former isn't mentioned at all, even though Katrine and Hanne were quite close. Ulrik is at least mentioned in Episode 7, where his salary is used as a bargaining chip so Narciza could get a raise.
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Borgen / int_fcc1378e	type	Pop-Up Texting
Borgen / int_fcc1378e	comment	Pop-Up Texting: Lots of this in Season 4. Birgitte tends to get into tense text exchanged with PM Kragh. One of these becomes a Chekhov's Gun, when a text sent by one of Birgitte's underlings, one with some incriminating info, gets her into a lot of trouble.
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Borgen / int_fdc1e848	type	Will They or Won't They?
Borgen / int_fdc1e848	comment	Will They or Won't They?: Katrine and Kasper. By season 2 they finally get back together, between season 2 and 3 they have a child and get divorced, and by mid-season 3 they are finally Amicably Divorced. Asger and Emmy in season 4, which ends in No Resolution. It's implied he'll go after her though, once Birgitte tells him that she "may not be a mistake."
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Borgen / int_fe8a1029	type	Feed the Mole
Borgen / int_fe8a1029	comment	Feed the Mole: Nyborg realizes the New Democrats have a high-ranking mole when the Moderates start copying all their policies (and also book the hall they want for a rally). There's a party leader debate happening the next night, so Katrine leaks different versions of Birgitte's debate prep to each suspect, to see whose lead Kruse ends up following.
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Borgen / int_ff7b34f9	type	Strawman News Media
Borgen / int_ff7b34f9	comment	Strawman News Media: In season 3, Alex Hjort, the Head of Programmes for TV1, persistently attempts to dumb-down the channel's news coverage in relentless pursuit of ratings, which wouldn't be so bad except that he seems to believe that there's no conflict between this and the station's reputation for 'integrity', and he treats the people who work under him as morons. Witness his Catchphrase: whenever people try to argue that he's wrecking the show and is acting like a Jerkass, he gets a call on his mobile, turns his back on his discontented employees, says to the person on the other end 'Oh, nothing, it's just a staff issue' and walks away. Eventually he goes too far, provokes a mutiny among the anchors, and gets fired.
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Borgen / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Borgen / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Inverted in-universe. Nyborg usually relies on having hard facts to back up her arguments, but in season 3 she's preparing for a crucial TV debate and because she's distracted by, among other things, pre-cancerous cells that have been found in her breast which she hasn't told anyone else about, she fails to pay attention to an explanation of the tricky details of her party's economic policy. As a result, she flubs it live on TV, which makes it easy for her opponents to paint her as someone who doesn't know what she's talking about. She doesn't make the same mistake twice.
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Borgen	hasFeature	Blonde Republican Sex Kitten / int_22046752
Borgen	hasFeature	Bulungi / int_22046752
Borgen	hasFeature	Cigarette of Anxiety / int_22046752
Borgen	hasFeature	Contemplative Boss / int_22046752
DR	seeAlso	Borgen
Borgen	hasFeature	Fictional Political Party / int_22046752
Forbrydelsen	seeAlso	Borgen
Borgen	hasFeature	Government Procedural / int_22046752
Borgen	hasFeature	I Was Young and Needed the Money / int_22046752
Borgen	hasFeature	Off the Wagon / int_22046752
Borgen	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_22046752
Borgen	hasFeature	Ruritania / int_22046752
Borgen	hasFeature	Satellite Love Interest / int_22046752
Borgen	hasFeature	Throwing Out the Script / int_22046752
Borgen	hasFeature	Underdressed for the Occasion / int_22046752
Borgen	hasFeature	Untranslated Title / int_22046752
Arvingerne	seeAlso	Borgen
Borgen	hasFeature	The Chains of Commanding / int_22046752

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