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The Regime Finale Recap: A Little Wobble


The Regime finds its satirical punch just in time for the finale, but it’s too little too late.

Elena’s entire purpose as Chancellor is to be the charismatic figurehead of an oligarchy, a clothes horse for a country that exists to enrich billionaires like Emil Bartos and turn its resources over to America, which wants access to its cobalt mines and is willing to plug its nose over reports of human rights abuses and autocratic corruption. “Don’t Yet Rejoice” serves as a forceful reminder that we haven’t really seen the country Elena governs, outside of a heavily orchestrated public relations trip to Westgate that she needed an oxygen tank to survive. She looks fittingly absurd dashing through the woods in her formal red dress and it takes constant scolding from Zubak to remind her that she doesn’t have access to cameras, planes, or her social media team, and she can’t rue her misfortune by screaming “The cunts!” at top of her lungs.

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