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The Regime

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The Regime	comment	"The Regime" is a 2024 HBO Black Comedy political satire/thriller miniseries created by Will Tracy, with Stephen Frears and Jessica Hobbs directing episodes and executive producing. It stars Kate Winslet, Andrea Riseborough, Matthias Schoenaerts, Guillaume Gallienne and Hugh Grant.The series takes place in the final year of an authoritarian Middle European regime whose Chancellor, Elena Vernham (Winslet), faces domestic turmoil.The trailer can be watched here. The series premiered on March 3, 2024.
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The Regime / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
The Regime / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Chancellor Elena Vernham is not based on any one politician, but aspects of her personality are sourced from various authoritarians and state strongmen from around the globe. Her paranoia and tendency to isolate herself for weeks at a time suggest Vladimir Putin, as does her launching an invasion and denying that it's an invasion or that any innocent people died. Her status as the daughter of another, less successful far-right politician suggests Marine Le Pen, the French politician currently in charge of the party her father founded. Her protectionist stances and gaudy taste recalls Donald Trump. Being the authoritarian-populist ruler of a Central European country gives off similarities with Viktor OrbÃ¡n's Hungary. The coup taking place on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day is reminiscent of the downfall of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Elena also gets her name from Ceausescu's wife Elena. Senator Judith Holt, an American politician involved in foreign policy with a blonde bob, is more than a little reminiscent of Hillary Clinton.
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The Regime / int_195f7170	type	Crappy Homemade Gift
The Regime / int_195f7170	comment	Crappy Homemade Gift: Corporal Zubak paints a portrait of the Chancellor for Christmas. It looks like it was made by a six-year-old. When Vernham is asked if she likes it, she manages to say that she appreciates it, but puts her foot down when he tries to hang it in the same room as her official portraits of state.
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The Regime / int_1b60dcba	type	The Bully
The Regime / int_1b60dcba	comment	The Bully: How Zubak leads. He threatens to hang Agnes out the window by her ankles. Unsurprisingly, no one but Elena is entranced by the idea of him taking over the country, and the rest of the government works together to keep him out of power for as long as possible.
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The Regime / int_25f0ed12	type	Hollywood Tone-Deaf
The Regime / int_25f0ed12	comment	Hollywood Tone-Deaf: Averted. At a banquet, the Chancellor performs Chicago 's "If You Leave Me Now." While she doesn't have a terrible voice, she is noticeably tone deaf, which she covers up by slipping into William Shatner-esque spoken word. Many in the audience are visibly trying not to cringe, but Zubak stares at her with adoring eyes. Later, at her father's birthday party, she sings Happy Birthday to him and follows the upper harmony line perfectly, with no hint of tone deafness.
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The Regime / int_29c5faf	type	Background Halo
The Regime / int_29c5faf	comment	Background Halo: The first shot of the Chancellor is her silhouetted against a dehumidifier.
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The Regime / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
The Regime / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: As one can imagine from a show with writers from "Veep" and "Succession," the dialogue tends to be rather floridly profane.
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The Regime / int_45fe3a2e	type	Utopia Justifies the Means
The Regime / int_45fe3a2e	comment	Utopia Justifies the Means: In the third episode, the Chancellor declares after the reunification with (or invasion of, per the international community) the Faban Corridor, "There are times when one must choose the hardest road. I have chosen that road. And I have done so in the name of liberty." It is unclear, however, if she genuinely believes this.
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The Regime / int_60cc14ba	type	Ruritania
The Regime / int_60cc14ba	comment	Ruritania: The unnamed Central European country the Chancellor leads is implied to be this, outside the confines of the palace. The country's major resources are sugarbeets and cobalt, and the peasant-born Herbert Zubak speaks with a thick accent.
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The Regime / int_61c3ca7b	type	Panthera Awesome
The Regime / int_61c3ca7b	comment	Panthera Awesome: The leopard is the country's national symbol. The flag consists of a field split diagonally into a red and a blue area, with a leopard in the center. Promotional materials show the Chancellor sitting with a leopard at her feet.
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The Regime / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Regime / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: The first season ends without revealing the fate of Oskar, whom Elena and Herbert left behind in the palace during the Christmas Eve coup.
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The Regime / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
The Regime / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: Episode 5, "All Ye Faithful". After a six-month Time Skip from the previous episode, the insurgents breach the palace just before the Chancellor announces that she is resigning. Zubak barely manages to get her out. The remaining members of the Cabinet leave her behind. And Agnes is shot and killed while trying to get to Oskar.
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The Regime / int_99b2613a	type	Oop North
The Regime / int_99b2613a	comment	Oop North: Agnes, who makes sure the palace runs smoothly, has a distinct Yorkshire accent that emphasizes her no-nonsense nature.
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The Regime / int_9c47b23b	type	Dirty Communists
The Regime / int_9c47b23b	comment	Dirty Communists: The Chancellor and her allies denounce their political opponents as "Neo-Marxists."
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The Regime / int_9d5dad72	type	Blaming the Victim
The Regime / int_9d5dad72	comment	Blaming the Victim: In "Midnight Banquet," the Chancellor is informed about a protest where a mounted police officer's horse got spooked and kicked a pregnant woman in the stomach; both the mother and unborn child died. With a total absence of empathy, she points out that the woman should have known better than to attend a violent protest while pregnant.
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The Regime / int_a12a5322	type	That Old-Time Prescription
The Regime / int_a12a5322	comment	That Old-Time Prescription: At Zubak's suggestion, Chancellor Vernham has bowls of steaming potatoes placed all over the palace. She raves about the healing effects of potato steam, but others complain that the palace now smells like an "Irish whorehouse". She gets so obsessed with folk remedies (mustard rubs, black radish, etc.) that she forbids anything resembling Western medicine. Agnes has to resort to obtaining epilepsy medication on the sly for Oskar, her son.
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The Regime / int_a8c1433e	type	Dead Star Walking
The Regime / int_a8c1433e	comment	Dead Star Walking: Hugh Grant is cast as Keplinger, Vernham's predecessor and appears and dies in the same episode.
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The Regime / int_a8c50563	type	Bathtub Scene
The Regime / int_a8c50563	comment	Bathtub Scene: Of the ice variety. In the fourth episode, the Chancellor is suffering from hot flashes and setting the palace's thermostat so cold enough that everybody else wears heavy coats when not in her presence. She even attends a meeting with her cabinet remotely from her ice-filled bathtub.
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The Regime / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Regime / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Elena's dream/hallucination of her father speaking to her strongly suggests that he was severely emotionally abusive. In episode 6, Laskin claims there are rumors that he was sexually abusive as well, though Laskin may not have been fully truthful.
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The Regime / int_b503102e	type	Terrified of Germs
The Regime / int_b503102e	comment	Terrified of Germs: Chancellor Vernham is terrified of mold, given she inherited the same illness (AAT deficiency) that led her father to develop lung disease. Everybody around her enables her paranoia; in the first episode, she can be seen sitting surrounded by four industrial-size dehumidifiers. She is even more paranoid about this obsession being known to the public, as it makes her look weak. The mold receives a Call-Back in episode 6 when Laskin tortures her into cooperating by strapping her into an oxygen mask attached to a tank labeled "Danger, Black Mould."
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The Regime / int_b82b5723	type	Convulsive Seizures
The Regime / int_b82b5723	comment	Convulsive Seizures: Oskar has a seizure during the Banquet of Heroes, as Chancellor Vernham has forbidden medication in favor of folk remedies, and the doctor can no longer sneak medications to his mother for Oskar. It is likely to have been provoked by the lights from the show.
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The Regime / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Regime / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: The Chancellor calls Corporal Zubak a "big baby ox man" despite him repeatedly warning her to stop. In a rage, he ends up grabbing her by the neck hard enough to leave a handprint and nearly strikes her. In the fourth episode, Zubak strangles Keplinger (Hugh Grant) after the latter calls him "butcher".
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The Regime / int_c180f1cb	type	Advertising by Association
The Regime / int_c180f1cb	comment	Advertising by Association: The trailer states "From executive producers of Succession".
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The Regime / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
The Regime / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Agnes finally accepts it's time to escape and is ready to do so, but the insurgents breach the palace. In the chaos, she is shot and killed before she can get to her son. The poor little boy is left all by himself, hiding under a table and with no idea what happened to his mom.
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The Regime / int_c70907c7	type	The Butcher
The Regime / int_c70907c7	comment	In the fourth episode, Zubak strangles Keplinger (Hugh Grant) after the latter calls him "butcher".
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The Regime / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: Elena's husband, Nicolas, often calls her "Lenny."
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The Regime / int_e27693	type	The Coup
The Regime / int_e27693	comment	The Coup: Vernham dismisses any reports of civilian deaths, starvation (claiming that nobody starves in Central Europe) and all other signs of unrest as enemy propaganda. Just before she can announce her resignation (with the intent to place Herbert Zubak as her successor), the insurgents break into the palace.
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The Regime / int_e5e5d228	type	Abusive Offspring
The Regime / int_e5e5d228	comment	Abusive Offspring: Corporal Zubak physically assaulted his mother when he was fourteen.
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The Regime / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
The Regime / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Elena holds a livestream in episode 5 with the intent of resigning as chancellor and handing the office to Herbert, but the palace is stormed before she can actually say it. Herbert points this out in the next episode, reminding her that she hesitated. Comes back into play in episode 6: Elena says that members of her own government rebelled against her, because the ministers who turned on her during the coup were actually acting against their own chancellor who had never resigned her office.
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The Regime / int_fd5f23a7	type	Skyward Scream
The Regime / int_fd5f23a7	comment	Skyward Scream: When Elena tears up papers in a forest, saying "Fuck them all!" and screaming while looking at the sky.
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