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The Regime Recap: Country Medicine
Is Elena a savvy stateswoman or an easily manipulated ruler? The show isn’t interested in making that clear yet.
The second comes much later, as she holds a meeting with Judith Holt (Martha Plimpton), an American senator who’s taking a special diplomatic detour to chat with Elena about her alarming rhetoric in the hope that it will put their relationship back on track. Or is she a sneakily savvy stateswoman who’s keenly aware of her country’s importance to a superpower like the United States, which is willing to plug its nose over all sorts of unsavory behavior to stay in business with her? You will never be in control of this place again, do you hear me?”) The new strategy is much riskier, which is to grant Zubak such an exalted status that Elena will naturally feel envious or threatened and throw him in the brig alongside her former finance minister and physician.
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