Netflix has decided to replace the next series of The Crown with a new fictional drama, which may run as long. The opening episode starts with a blonde Prime Minister sitting cross-legged on the floor of the Cabinet Room in a sackcloth shift, rocking back and forth, repeating "Should have done the supply side first". Family protection officers and a medical team enter. "Time for the Commons", they say, administering more sedatives and dressing her in an emergency M&S trouser suit and blouse. She is driven away, to sit, uncomprehending, next to a man who seems be in charge of everything, as she gazes into the middle distance. She attempts a faint 'Hear, hear' of support as this man says what the Government is doing, and then lets the warm bath of anti-depressants do their work.
Later that day, the hairdresser is back, and, as she is groomed to face a television interview, a voice says "OK, this time we can use the word apology. But stick to the passive tense - you know, 'mistakes were made'..."
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