Since I became your gatekeeper, we have grown considerably as a country. It’s time to show America and the world exactly what we’re worth,” Kate Winslet warns in the trailer for The Regime.
The Oscar winner for The Reader returns to HBO after having starred in Mare of Easttown, the crime series for which she won the Emmy for best actress. She plays a change of register. With the help of screenwriter Will Tracy and executive producer Frank Rich, who worked on Succession, she delves into a more comedic tone in this political satire directed by Stephen Frears, director of The Queen.
The idea is to show a year of government by a woman in a European country. The main feature, however, is that Kate Winslet plays a dictator in a regime that worships her person. When she, in addition to having an impeccable style, hires a kind of security chief to look after her interests, she becomes an even more distant and feared politician. You just have to see how not even the gatekeeper’s husband has access to his wife.
Winslet, however, does not want to commit: like Mare of Easttown, it is a miniseries. It consists of six episodes and the first episode can be seen on March 4 in Spain through HBO Max. The cast is completed by Matthias Schoenaerts, Guillaume Gallienne, Andrea Riseborough, Martha Plimpton and Hugh Grant.
The Regime joins the contemporary trend of portraying the reactionary drift of Western democracies, with the risk that entails that they become dictatorships. The Handmaid’s Tale or The Plot Against America are two recent examples while in parallel, ahead of their release in cinemas, cult director Alex Garland (Devs) has Civil War in his bedroom about the war division of the USA.
