Roadkill (PBS) .

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#Roadkill (#PBS)

To paraphrase the great Tony Reali, Stop me if you've heard this before: a charismatic politician scrambles to deal with his many shady dealings coming out in the open all the while aspiring to higher office.

Delicious stuff from Hare, so much interweaving plot threads, so much behind-the-scenes politicking, so much bureaucracy, so much wicked bon mots ("Justice is not a notion, it's a department of state, a badly-run one at that" 🤣😳), so much humanity of the everyday people actually affected by all the wheeling and dealing. So much fun!

The cast has that one glorious recognisable name at the center of it all, acting his proverbial a** off, and dude, does Laurie deliver, I mean, give the man *all* the #Emmy's! But, don't forget all those other, less recognisable faces who do such a great job, hopefully they'll start getting higher profile stuff on this side of the proverbial pond: Brady, Bennett-Warner, Torrens…so much ensemble!

But gotta say, the show was stolen by Brune-Franklin, the emotional arc of the entire thing, and especially McCrory, who goes toe-to-toe with Laurie and gives him ye olde what-for, c'mon, we need a spinoff of her navigating her climb up to 10 Downing Street.

Ya know, this is one of the few times that the classic British TV brevity actually works against them, c'mon chaps, don't ya know in this age of the infinite binge you always need more… so, much, more.

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#DavidHare #MichaelKeillor
#HughLaurie #HelenMcCrory #ShalomBruneFranklin #PippaBennettWarner #MillieBrady #SidseBabettKnudsen #PipTorrens #NatalieDew #OliviaVinall #SarahGreene #IainDeCaestecker…and so many more!
@pbs @bbc

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