6.656 minSeason 1 • Episode 6
LatestWith the palace walls now breached, Elena must leverage her skills in diplomacy – and duplicity – in order to remain chancellor.
The story of one year within the walls of the palace of a modern European regime as it begins to unravel.
Acting
Winslet's vocal fry dictatorship deserves its own regime.
Production
The palace feels like a rotting wedding cake—perfectly suffocating.
Writing
Succession pedigree meets Veep's panic in a pressure cooker.
Creator
Will Tracy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Will Tracy wrote this after Succession and The Menu, forming his trilogy of institutions eating themselves alive.
The fictional 'Middle European' setting deliberately evokes collapsing post-Soviet states like Belarus or 1990s Yugoslavia without pinning to one history.
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