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The Regime Series-Premiere Recap: To Err Is Humid
Kate Winslet plays an autocratic strongwoman who, like all strongmen, is actually quite weak.
With the economy in free fall and the country’s dodgy human-rights reputation further damaged by the Army gunning down 12 protestors at a cobalt mine, Elena’s instinct is to hire one of those murderous soldiers, Corporal Herbert Zubak (Matthias Schoenaerts), to shadow her. “They’ve cut our balls off, Chief, and now they’re laughing at us because you dance with foreign cash like a sick fucking bear at the circus.” This is all music to Elena’s ears, giving her the strength to sweep Susan and her doctor out of the palace for their traitorous conspiracies and hardening her resolve to deal with the Americans. • A funny backstory for Elena’s put-upon husband (Guillaume Gallienne), who’s first shown describing the mine massacre to Vogue as “a little peppery” and later nonchalantly tells guests at the reception the cute story of meeting her in Paris and eventually leaving his wife and child at her insistence, never to see them again.
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