Breaking down the bitter ending of HBO's wild show.
In the end, creator Will Tracy posits the literal, physical triumph of capital over all.
The penultimate episode of The Regime ends in tragedy for Agnes and her epileptic son.
This show has teeth, and in this episode it sank them a little bit deeper.
If this show were nothing but a series of shots of Kate Winslet throwing open big double doors or drawing apart curtains and walking through, we’d still watch it
It’s the strongest, sharpest, best-looking, and (very importantly) funniest satire of wealth and power HBO has served up in its whole “satires of wealth and power” era.
How Vienna became Elena Vernham's home.
Matthias Schoenaerts, Andrea Riseborough, Hugh Grant and Martha Plimpton also star in the series, created by Succession's Will Tracy.
It's a brilliantly deranged love story between dictator and proletariat.