Once a revered television masterpiece, this show has now deteriorated into a tasteless and inadvertently hilarious soap opera that teeters on the edge of exploitation. The decline of this once-respected program begs the question: how did it come to such a deplorable state?
Even prime ministers, no strangers to political dramas themselves, have denounced it as “malicious nonsense” and “complete rubbish.” Esteemed members of the theatrical world have joined in the chorus of disapproval, labeling it as “crude sensationalism.” Now, with the arrival of the new season, the reviews have arrived, and they offer little solace for the show’s creators. Lucy Mangan, writing for The Guardian, found the latest installment so agonizing to watch that she described it as an “out-of-body experience” while delivering her scathing one-star assessment. Other critics have…
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