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It's going to be hard writing a review that doesn't include spoilers. What can you say about a series that has its main characters, including the "heroine" making ridiculous decisions in every episode? Or a series that introduces a character just before the final episode who turns out to be pivotal to the plot? It's all a nonsense.

I watched it all, more fool me, which is why there are two stars.

As for Isabelle Adjani, I hope her fee was big enough to compensate for the reputational damage she will have suffered for appearing, botoxed out, in this farago of idiocy. Having to parade around in the ludicrous wig the script called for was the crowning glory of sublimely stupid scenarios. It got even better when she swapped the greying-hair wig for a brown-hair one. This was hilarious.

I can't recommend this unless you want to watch for a laugh.

Well, another one I just switched off after ten minutes. This was so artificial, so boring, so twee that I was actually getting cross with myself for watching it.

The situation just wasn't real and related to nothing in my life or experience.

Lovely seats in the church though! I thought pews were meant to be hard and wooden to concentrate the faithful.

I hate leaving short reviews but there there's little to say about this tosh.

EDIT:

Actually there is something more to say. I have just realised that Kyle Brooks, "starring" in this short, was responsible for the truly dreadful "Once a Year On Blackpool Sands" being transferred from a stage show to film and appeared as a main character there too. That's two utter duds that should have been left on the cutting room floor. Boring, vacuous and empty both.

So many shows nowadays seem to have an indulged, spoilt brat who needs a sharp lesson to get over herself. It's worse here as she seems to have the run of Number 10 and access to state secrets.

Another weakness in the series was the utter absence of security for family members. When the terrorist threat level is critical, the Prime Minister's father does not lie in a hospital bed without armed guards. Nor does her husband go to remote areas of the jungle without protection.

There are other lacunae but I don't want to get into spoiler territory. Let it be said that if one can put one's sense of reality aside, this series was fun and a rollicking ride through French and UK politics.

The programme made a good stab at trying to be real but it has to be remembered that the whole thing is a fantasy, albeit an entertaining one. I watched it all within twenty four hours. Have a look for a way to mindlessly spend a few hours but don't expect a screen version of The Crossman Diaries.