Jordan Mattox

I am making my way through Season 1 of Borgen and am thoroughly enjoying it so far. I agree with Tyler Cowen: 

If you are looking for a new “intelligent TV show” to watch, this is my nomination.  I don’t like this as much as my all-time favorite shows, but if you are only going to watch twenty good TV shows in your lifetime, this should be one of them.  You don’t have to care about politics, much less Danish politics, but if you do that will make it all the more intriguing.

I also agree with this take from American Affairs (I definitely don’t agree with the whole take, which can be summarized as it’s not real enough and it does not include people from the bottom): 

Despite its reputed realism, Borgen in fact presents a romantic view of politics, set within a hermetically sealed universe. In addition to its idealized main character, the show resembles the Arthurian romances in what it leaves out: as in most tales of the Round Table, we learn nothing at all about the ordinary people of the country. Throughout the first season, not a single scene so much as alludes to how the government’s decisions affect anyone’s survival or well-being. Every figure who appears on screen is directly connected either to the government or to the media.

There’s been a lot of interesting discussion about the fourth season and so I am trying to move along at a brisk pace.