Television prophecy is not only the heritage of The Simpson or of the Kings —The Good Wife Y The Good Fight they have shown to have a gift for clairvoyance that Aramis Fuster would already want for himself—. Now it is also exercised by Adam Price. She has come back Borgen, his best-known series, nine years after its end. In Borgen: kingdom, power and glory (Netflix) Birgitte Nyborg is now foreign minister under a new chief of staff—there’s always someone younger and hungrier coming down the steps of the Folketing hemicycle behind you—with whom she doesn’t get along.
Nyborg’s portfolio is what it is because the conflict that the season addresses has to do with international politics: after the discovery of oil in Greenland, Denmark must decide whether or not to support this imminent exploitation. Curious that Nyborg, from a center party, opposes it because of the environmental impact, while the prime minister, from a left-wing party, defends her. The thing is complicated by a hypothetical conflict with Russia and China with commercial interests involved.
It is not the first series that addresses the issue of energy resources and Russia. There is Occupied (Amazon Prime Video), the 2015 Norwegian series in which Russia, with the approval of the EU and the United States, invaded Norway after the country refused to continue extracting oil and gas due to climate change. But when it comes to geopolitical alliances, Price is a better guess.
In a display of “do what I say, not what I do”, Borgen was very abused by our politicians, for the moderation and negotiating capacity with opponents of its protagonist. We’ll see who says now “this mouth is mine.” Birgitte’s, of course.
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