40-year old political leader Birgitte Nyborg secures her party a landslide victory through her idealism and huge effort, then faces the biggest challenge of her life: how most effectively to use the newly won seats, and how far she is willing to go in order to gain as much influence as possible.
Borgen treats politics as a craft of conversations, compromises and deadlines rather than a conspiracy thriller. It stays close to its characters and shows what power does to private life, relationships and convictions. The tone is sober and human, the pace calm but driven by constant decisions.
Good for you if you like political series that take dialogue and trade-offs seriously and show the people behind the offices.
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