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* BlondeRepublicanSexKitten: Benedikte Nedergaard, Saltum's {{Starscream}} in the third season, is this, although (ironically given she's a Danish racial nationalist) she isn't blonde.
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* BlondeRepublicanSexKitten: Benedikte Nedergaard, Saltum's {{Starscream}} in the third season, is this, although (ironically given she's a Danish racial nationalist) she isn't blonde. When Ulrik asks point blank how much she trades on her looks, she retorts "As much as you do."
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* OpenMouthInsertFoot: Saltum realizes an instant too late that he has shot himself in the foot, when he blurts out on TV that pig farmers, including himself, raise "garbage" because it is what the consumers want.
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* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish:
** Many of the characters are fluent in English and use it frequently in conversations with non-Danes, Birgitte in particular. Made less surprising by the fact that 86% of Danes are actually fluent in English.
** Perhaps even more unexpected is Birgitte's Surprisingly Good ''French'' during her phone conversations with the EU Commissioner.
** Many of the characters are fluent in English and use it frequently in conversations with non-Danes, Birgitte in particular. Made less surprising by the fact that 86% of Danes are actually fluent in English.
** Perhaps even more unexpected is Birgitte's Surprisingly Good ''French'' during her phone conversations with the EU Commissioner.
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* TenMinuteRetirement:
** Shortly after leaving due to persistent media attention to his past as a card-carrying communist, Søren Ravn is recruited back into the New Democrats to help hash out their economic policy the following episode.
** Katrine walks back on her sacking of [[spoiler: Narciza]] after receiving heavy backlash of it.
** Magnus drops out of political science after seeing [[spoiler: his mother turn into the dark side.]] He returns once [[spoiler: Birgitte arranges to get herself transferred to Brussels.]]
** Shortly after leaving due to persistent media attention to his past as a card-carrying communist, Søren Ravn is recruited back into the New Democrats to help hash out their economic policy the following episode.
** Katrine walks back on her sacking of [[spoiler: Narciza]] after receiving heavy backlash of it.
** Magnus drops out of political science after seeing [[spoiler: his mother turn into the dark side.]] He returns once [[spoiler: Birgitte arranges to get herself transferred to Brussels.]]
* BusinessTripAdultery: A secondary plot of season 4 centers on Asger's affair with the married Emmy Rasmussen.
* TheCasanova: Laugesen according to himself. To the point where he assures [[spoiler: Birgitte that one of the New Democrats' senior members is loyal to her]] because he slept with her.
* {{Catchphrase}}:
** Birgitte to Bent when she needs his advice on a thorny situation:
---> ''What are my options?''
** Asger to Birgitte when she also needs his advice. This one shows how cynical the latter had become by season 4:
---> ''Are we for or against oil today?''
* ChekhovsGun: Magnus' drawing of whales as a grade schooler will come in handy towards the end of season 4.
** Birgitte to Bent when she needs his advice on a thorny situation:
---> ''What are my options?''
** Asger to Birgitte when she also needs his advice. This one shows how cynical the latter had become by season 4:
---> ''Are we for or against oil today?''
* ChekhovsGun: Magnus' drawing of whales as a grade schooler will come in handy towards the end of season 4.
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** Both Hanne Holm and Ulrik (one of the news anchors and Katrine's former [[FriendlyRivalry rival]] in the newsroom) seem to have left [=TV1=] before the start Season 4. While this can probably be explained as both having moved on to different jobs, they aren't mentioned at all, even though Katrine and Hanne were [[TeamMom quite]] [[TheMentor close]].
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** Both Hanne Holm and Ulrik (one of the news anchors and Katrine's former [[FriendlyRivalry rival]] in the newsroom) seem to have left [=TV1=] before the start Season 4. While this can probably be explained as both having moved on to different jobs, they aren't the former isn't mentioned at all, even though Katrine and Hanne were [[TeamMom quite]] [[TheMentor close]].close]]. Ulrik is at least mentioned in Episode 7, where his salary is used as a bargaining chip so Narciza could get a raise.
* DaEditor: Laugesen for ''Ekspres'' and Torben for [=TV1=] in the original trilogy. Katrine becomes this for the latter in season 4.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Season 4 is considerably more cynical than the original trilogy, showing Birgitte holding to her power as foreign minister and Katrine navigating through editorial differences with star anchor Narciza Aydin; both set within the backdrop of an oil find in Greenland, where Arctic geopolitics, climate change, and Greenland's relations with Denmark are featured front and center.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Season 4 is considerably more cynical than the original trilogy, showing Birgitte holding to her power as foreign minister and Katrine navigating through editorial differences with star anchor Narciza Aydin; both set within the backdrop of an oil find in Greenland, where Arctic geopolitics, climate change, and Greenland's relations with Denmark are featured front and center.
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** [[spoiler: Malik Johansen in season 4]] commits suicide after a botched attempt at bugging a meeting on behalf of the [[BigBrotherIsWatchingThisIndex PET]].
* DrunkWithPower: Averted. Nyborg keeps a good head on her shoulders where her job is concerned, despite the havoc it wreaks on her personal life.
* DrunkWithPower: Averted. Nyborg keeps a good head on her shoulders where her job is concerned, despite the havoc it wreaks on her personal life.
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** [[spoiler: Malik Johansen in season 4]] commits is implied to have committed suicide after a botched attempt at bugging a meeting on behalf of the [[BigBrotherIsWatchingThisIndex PET]].
PET]]. Asger and Tanja believe he didn't.
*DrunkWithPower: Averted. DrunkWithPower:
** Averted in the first three seasons. Nyborg keeps a good head on her shoulders where her job is concerned, despite the havoc it wreaks on her personallife.life.
** Season 4 has Birgitte's descent into this shown front and center.
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** Averted in the first three seasons. Nyborg keeps a good head on her shoulders where her job is concerned, despite the havoc it wreaks on her personal
** Season 4 has Birgitte's descent into this shown front and center.
* ExecutiveMeddling: InUniverse.
** Not as prominent in the first two seasons, as season 3 shows that Torben had a sympathetic direct superior. All hell breaks loose once Alex Hjort comes in though.
** [=TV1=] happens to be in the middle of funding negotiations with the government in season 4. Cue Frederik "suggesting" Birgitte [[spoiler: to kill off a feature on the Kragh government and refraining from criticizing the administration.]]
** Not as prominent in the first two seasons, as season 3 shows that Torben had a sympathetic direct superior. All hell breaks loose once Alex Hjort comes in though.
** [=TV1=] happens to be in the middle of funding negotiations with the government in season 4. Cue Frederik "suggesting" Birgitte [[spoiler: to kill off a feature on the Kragh government and refraining from criticizing the administration.]]
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Amir's attitude when Nyborg's concessions to polluters causes him to resign from both the Ministry of the Environment and the Green Party.
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: HeWhoFightsMonsters:
** Amir's attitude when Nyborg's concessions to polluters causes him to resign from both the Ministry of the Environment and the GreenParty.Party.
** Birgitte in season 4 betrays her principles to stay in Kragh's good graces to the point that [[spoiler: Magnus quits political science and her party suffers from defections, up to and including co-founder Nadia, the Climate and Energy minister.]]
** Amir's attitude when Nyborg's concessions to polluters causes him to resign from both the Ministry of the Environment and the Green
** Birgitte in season 4 betrays her principles to stay in Kragh's good graces to the point that [[spoiler: Magnus quits political science and her party suffers from defections, up to and including co-founder Nadia, the Climate and Energy minister.]]
* IntrepidReporter:
** In the first two seasons, Katrine and Hanne's muckraked on whatever issue the government was dealing with. And their investigations don't stop at political matters - they even dug deep on [[spoiler: Höx's death]] after Laugesen tried to browbeat the two into [[spoiler: outing the guy.]]
** Torben in season 4 as a political commentator is shown to be no slouch either where he helps Katrine with material on the dynamics of Kragh's government. He, after all, has a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavling_Prize Cavling prize]] to his name.
** In the first two seasons, Katrine and Hanne's muckraked on whatever issue the government was dealing with. And their investigations don't stop at political matters - they even dug deep on [[spoiler: Höx's death]] after Laugesen tried to browbeat the two into [[spoiler: outing the guy.]]
** Torben in season 4 as a political commentator is shown to be no slouch either where he helps Katrine with material on the dynamics of Kragh's government. He, after all, has a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavling_Prize Cavling prize]] to his name.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Kasper and Birgitte try to damage Amir by accusing him of hypocrisy for promoting environmentalism while owning a gas-guzzling classic car, and the resulting press persecution of him and his family drives him out of politics. By the end of the series, the same thing has (temporarily) happened to Birgitte and her family after the row over her daughter being sent to a private mental hospital.]]
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** Katrine has Torben promoted to [=TV1=]'s political editor in exchange for [[spoiler: refraining from criticism of Signe Kragh's government, as the network is in the middle of funding negotiations. [[LoopholeAbuse He decides to blast the government on air]] '''[[LoopholeAbuse as political editor]]''']].
*LaserGuidedKarma: LaserGuidedKarma:
** [[spoiler:Kasper and Birgitte try to damage Amir by accusing him of hypocrisy for promoting environmentalism while owning a gas-guzzling classic car, and the resulting press persecution of him and his family drives him out of politics. By the end of the series, the same thing has (temporarily) happened to Birgitte and her family after the row over her daughter being sent to a private mental hospital.]]]]
** Josva tells Birgitte that his recent whaling difficulties may have been the Mother of the Sea's way of getting back at him for accepting said boat as a bribe from the Chinese.
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** [[spoiler:Kasper and Birgitte try to damage Amir by accusing him of hypocrisy for promoting environmentalism while owning a gas-guzzling classic car, and the resulting press persecution of him and his family drives him out of politics. By the end of the series, the same thing has (temporarily) happened to Birgitte and her family after the row over her daughter being sent to a private mental hospital.
** Josva tells Birgitte that his recent whaling difficulties may have been the Mother of the Sea's way of getting back at him for accepting said boat as a bribe from the Chinese.
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* LoyalToThePosition: Niels Erik remains the Prime Minister's permanent secretary by season 4.
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* LoyalToThePosition: LoyalToThePosition:
** Niels Erik remains the Prime Minister's permanent secretary by season4.4.
** Discussed in season 4 where Oliver asks Rasmus whether he should remain loyal to Birgitte or the ministry. The latter tells him to be loyal to both, but that he should preferably pick the ministry over the minister.
** Niels Erik remains the Prime Minister's permanent secretary by season
** Discussed in season 4 where Oliver asks Rasmus whether he should remain loyal to Birgitte or the ministry. The latter tells him to be loyal to both, but that he should preferably pick the ministry over the minister.
* TheOphelia: Nyborg's daughter Laura has a complete mental breakdown in Season 2. Her parents have to commit her to a sanitarium for therapy, something that gets weaponized against Birgitte.
* PhotoOpWithTheDog: Laugesen suggests [[spoiler: Birgitte model her Instagram profile to be similar to Signe Kragh's.]] It kinda works.
* PompousPoliticalPundit: Laugesen on screen is just as much of an asshole as he is on print.
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* RightBehindMe: In the second episode, Birgitte is summoned to see the Queen of Denmark so she can be appointed "Royal Investigator" (which means she can start negotiating a coalition). There's a delay and Birgitte wonders how long the... certain word for a woman... is going to be, as a footman arrives to tell her that Her Majesty is ready.
%%* TheRival: Hesselboe to Nyborg.
* {{Ruritania}}: One episode revolves around the visit of the president of the former Soviet republic of Turgisia.
* TheOphelia: Nyborg's daughter Laura has a complete mental breakdown in Season 2. Her parents have to commit her to a sanitarium for therapy, something that gets weaponized against Birgitte.
%%* TheRival: Hesselboe to Nyborg.
* {{Ruritania}}: One episode revolves around the visit of the president of the former Soviet republic of Turgisia.
* TheOphelia: Nyborg's daughter Laura has a complete mental breakdown in Season 2. Her parents have to commit her to a sanitarium for therapy, something that gets weaponized against Birgitte.
* RightBehindMe: In the second episode, Birgitte is summoned to see the Queen of Denmark so she can be appointed "Royal Investigator" (which means she can start negotiating a coalition). There's a delay and Birgitte wonders how long the... certain word for a woman... is going to be, as a footman arrives to tell her that Her Majesty is ready.
%%* TheRival: Hesselboe to Nyborg.
%%* TheRival: Hesselboe to Nyborg.
* {{Ruritania}}: One episode revolves around the visit of the president of the former Soviet republic of Turgisia.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Nadia Barazani quits on [[spoiler: her Climate and Energy ministerial post, and the New Democrats over Birgitte's U-turn on the Greenland oil issue.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Nadia Barazani quits on [[spoiler: her Climate and Energy ministerial post, and the New Democrats over Birgitte's U-turn on the Greenland oil issue.]]
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: Katrine and Kasper. [[spoiler:By season 2 they finally get back together, between season 2 and 3 they have a child and get divorced, and by mid-season 3 they are finally AmicablyDivorced.]]
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: WillTheyOrWontThey:
** Katrine and Kasper. [[spoiler:By season 2 they finally get back together, between season 2 and 3 they have a child and get divorced, and by mid-season 3 they are finally AmicablyDivorced.]]]]
** Asger and Emmy in season 4, which ends in [[spoiler: NoResolution. It's implied he'll go after her though, once Birgitte tells him that she "may not be a mistake."]]
** Katrine and Kasper. [[spoiler:By season 2 they finally get back together, between season 2 and 3 they have a child and get divorced, and by mid-season 3 they are finally AmicablyDivorced.
** Asger and Emmy in season 4, which ends in [[spoiler: NoResolution. It's implied he'll go after her though, once Birgitte tells him that she "may not be a mistake."]]
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* WhatIfTheBabyIsLikeMe: Kaspr's extreme unwillingness to have children, [[spoiler:due to not wanting to continue the line of his abusive father, and/or fearing that he'll become abusive once he has a child]].
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* WhatIfTheBabyIsLikeMe: Kaspr's Kasper's extreme unwillingness to have children, [[spoiler:due to not wanting to continue the line of his abusive father, and/or fearing that he'll become abusive once he has a child]].
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* TheBusCameBack: In a stressful moment in Season 4 Birgitte drops by to visit Bent, her old political mentor, now retired. She's saddened to discover that Bent is being tested for dementia.
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* TheBusCameBack: TheBusCameBack:
** In a stressful moment in Season 4 Birgitte drops by to visit Bent, her old political mentor, now retired. She's saddened to discover that Bent is being tested fordementia.dementia.
** Niels Erik, the ''Statsministeriet's'' permanent secretary, doesn't appear for most of Season 3 except for a bit in the season finale where he welcomes Birgitte outside of the PM's office.
** In a stressful moment in Season 4 Birgitte drops by to visit Bent, her old political mentor, now retired. She's saddened to discover that Bent is being tested for
** Niels Erik, the ''Statsministeriet's'' permanent secretary, doesn't appear for most of Season 3 except for a bit in the season finale where he welcomes Birgitte outside of the PM's office.
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** Both Hanne Holm and Ulrich (one of the news anchors and Katrine's former [[FriendlyRivalry rival]] in the newsroom) seem to have left [=TV1=] before the start Season 4. While this can probably be explained as both having moved on to different jobs, they aren't mentioned at all, even though Katrine and Hanne were [[TeamMom quite]] [[TheMentor close]].
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** Both Hanne Holm and Ulrich Ulrik (one of the news anchors and Katrine's former [[FriendlyRivalry rival]] in the newsroom) seem to have left [=TV1=] before the start Season 4. While this can probably be explained as both having moved on to different jobs, they aren't mentioned at all, even though Katrine and Hanne were [[TeamMom quite]] [[TheMentor close]].
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* CreatorProvincialism: The government is shown mostly dealing with the country's internal affairs rather than international ones. Averted in Season 2 with the Afghanistan and Kharun storylines.
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* CreatorProvincialism: The government is shown mostly dealing with the country's internal affairs rather than international ones. Averted Aversions include:
** Season 1 has plots dealing with {{UsefulNotes/CIA}} operations in Greenland and a state visit from the fictional post-Soviet country of Turgisia.
** Season 2 with the Afghanistan and Kharunstorylines.storylines.
** Season 4 goes back to Greenland, but the great powers get involved this time around.
** Season 1 has plots dealing with {{UsefulNotes/CIA}} operations in Greenland and a state visit from the fictional post-Soviet country of Turgisia.
** Season 2 with the Afghanistan and Kharun
** Season 4 goes back to Greenland, but the great powers get involved this time around.
* DeckOfWildCards: The Labour Party goes through a revolving door of leaders up until halfway into season 2.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Troels]] is involuntarily outed after a sting operation involving a male escort posing as a photographer. Birgitte tries to convince him that it doesn't have to end his political career, but he is clearly shattered by it and ends up committing suicide.
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* DrivenToSuicide: DrivenToSuicide:
** [[spoiler: Troels]] is involuntarily outed after a sting operation involving a male escort posing as a photographer. Birgitte tries to convince him that it doesn't have to end his political career, but he is clearly shattered by it and ends up committingsuicide.suicide.
** [[spoiler: Katrine's source in episode 1-4]] kills himself after he receives a threat that an old criminal case of his will be divulged.
** [[spoiler: Malik Johansen in season 4]] commits suicide after a botched attempt at bugging a meeting on behalf of the [[BigBrotherIsWatchingThisIndex PET]].
** [[spoiler: Troels]] is involuntarily outed after a sting operation involving a male escort posing as a photographer. Birgitte tries to convince him that it doesn't have to end his political career, but he is clearly shattered by it and ends up committing
** [[spoiler: Katrine's source in episode 1-4]] kills himself after he receives a threat that an old criminal case of his will be divulged.
** [[spoiler: Malik Johansen in season 4]] commits suicide after a botched attempt at bugging a meeting on behalf of the [[BigBrotherIsWatchingThisIndex PET]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Emmy, Asger, and Malik climb Nakkaavik, a cliff where the elderly used to jumped from during famines. At the end of the episode, [[spoiler: we see a shot of Malik's corpse on the same location.]]
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* HeteronormativeCrusader: One scene in season 2 has Birgitte warned in advance that South Kharun's leader holds strongly homophobic views.
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** Saltum, when he points out Birgitte's poor negotiation techniques an dthe fact that she's wasting time talking to him.
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** Saltum, when he points out Birgitte's poor negotiation techniques an dthe and tthe fact that she's wasting time talking to him.
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* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: In the first debate in season 3, Ulrich is made to do this to [[spoiler:Birgitte]], revealing that she had little understanding of her own political platform. What makes this extra harsh is that it’s due to [[spoiler:her cancer treatments damaging her ability to stay alert and focused]].
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* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: In the first debate in season 3, Ulrich Ulrik is made to do this to [[spoiler:Birgitte]], revealing that she had little understanding of her own political platform. What makes this extra harsh is that it’s due to [[spoiler:her cancer treatments damaging her ability to stay alert and focused]].
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Kaspar and Birgitte try to damage Amir by accusing him of hypocrisy for promoting environmentalism while owning a gas-guzzling classic car, and the resulting press persecution of him and his family drives him out of politics. By the end of the series, the same thing has (temporarily) happened to Birgitte and her family after the row over her daughter being sent to a private mental hospital.]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Kaspar [[spoiler:Kasper and Birgitte try to damage Amir by accusing him of hypocrisy for promoting environmentalism while owning a gas-guzzling classic car, and the resulting press persecution of him and his family drives him out of politics. By the end of the series, the same thing has (temporarily) happened to Birgitte and her family after the row over her daughter being sent to a private mental hospital.]]
* LoyalToThePosition: Niels Erik remains the Prime Minister's permanent secretary by season 4.
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* MentorArchetype: Bent to Nyborg; Friis and Hanne Holm to Katrine.
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* MentorArchetype: MentorArchetype:
** Bent to Nyborg; Friis and Hanne Holm toKatrine.Katrine.
** It is also heavily implied that Nyborg was this to Lindekrone.
** Bent to Nyborg; Friis and Hanne Holm to
** It is also heavily implied that Nyborg was this to Lindekrone.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Saltum bears a major physical resemblance to the late [[http://www.jyskeslaegter.dk/Uploads/3659/2012-06-02-04-28-20-970-171a1191-db8c-4d39-8253-a12e992e33c7.jpg Mogens Glistrup]], a far-right party leader.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: NoCelebritiesWereHarmed:
** Saltum bears a major physical resemblance to the late [[http://www.jyskeslaegter.dk/Uploads/3659/2012-06-02-04-28-20-970-171a1191-db8c-4d39-8253-a12e992e33c7.jpg Mogens Glistrup]], a far-right partyleader.leader.
** The backgrounds of the two Kharunese leaders greatly resemble the leaders of Sudan and South Sudan around the time Season 2 was aired:
*** North Kharunese leader Omar al-Jawhar is said to have a pending ICC arrest warrant, not unlike [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_al-Bashir Omar al-Bashir]].
*** Jakob Lokoya of South Kharun has a line seemingly drawn from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salva_Kiir_Mayardit Salva Kiir Mayardit's]] interview with Dutch radio where he discussed his homophobic views.
** Saltum bears a major physical resemblance to the late [[http://www.jyskeslaegter.dk/Uploads/3659/2012-06-02-04-28-20-970-171a1191-db8c-4d39-8253-a12e992e33c7.jpg Mogens Glistrup]], a far-right party
** The backgrounds of the two Kharunese leaders greatly resemble the leaders of Sudan and South Sudan around the time Season 2 was aired:
*** North Kharunese leader Omar al-Jawhar is said to have a pending ICC arrest warrant, not unlike [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_al-Bashir Omar al-Bashir]].
*** Jakob Lokoya of South Kharun has a line seemingly drawn from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salva_Kiir_Mayardit Salva Kiir Mayardit's]] interview with Dutch radio where he discussed his homophobic views.
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* OffTheWagon: Inevitably, Hanne Holm. In one episode Kaspar and Katrine have to work together to sneak Hanne out of the building, after she comes stumbling out of a bathroom stall, falling-down drunk. Out of a mens' room stall.
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* OffTheWagon: Inevitably, Hanne Holm. In one episode Kaspar Kasper and Katrine have to work together to sneak Hanne out of the building, after she comes stumbling out of a bathroom stall, falling-down drunk. Out of a mens' room stall.
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** Kaspar in Season 3, which is surprising since he was one of the three protagonists in the first two seasons. But in the third season it's Katrine that's the spin doctor for Birgitte, and Torben that gets the storylines from the [=TV1=] newsroom (an affair, a combative relationship with his new boss). Creator/PilouAsbaek has little to do in the third season other than a brief storyline where he and Katrine are arguing about taking care of their son. He is PutOnABus in Season 4, with Katrine briefly mentioning he works in London now.
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** Kaspar Kasper in Season 3, which is surprising since he was one of the three protagonists in the first two seasons. But in the third season it's Katrine that's the spin doctor for Birgitte, and Torben that gets the storylines from the [=TV1=] newsroom (an affair, a combative relationship with his new boss). Creator/PilouAsbaek has little to do in the third season other than a brief storyline where he and Katrine are arguing about taking care of their son. He is PutOnABus in Season 4, with Katrine briefly mentioning he works in London now.
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* PlayingTheVictimCard: Both Birgitte and Kaspar accuse Saltum of this, with good reason: his political tactics are usually based on saying disgusting things in public and claiming to be the victim of Political Correctness when people get angry.
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* PlayingTheVictimCard: Both Birgitte and Kaspar Kasper accuse Saltum of this, with good reason: his political tactics are usually based on saying disgusting things in public and claiming to be the victim of Political Correctness when people get angry.
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* PutOnABus: Kaspar, who went OutOfFocus in Season 3, is simply absent from the 2022 revival. There's a throwaway mention of him that explains he now works in London.
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* PutOnABus: Kaspar, Kasper, who went OutOfFocus in Season 3, is simply absent from the 2022 revival. There's a throwaway mention of him that explains he now works in London.London.
* TheResenter: Ulrik occasionally resented Katrine being assigned to report on the major (plot-relevant) news items in [=TV1=].
* TheResenter: Ulrik occasionally resented Katrine being assigned to report on the major (plot-relevant) news items in [=TV1=].
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* ReassignedToAntarctica: In Episode 12, being assigned to the EU as a commissioner is described as this since it apparently has been used to get rid of politicians who were too troublesome on the homefront; the discussion provides the episode title, "In Brussels, No One Can Hear You Scream".
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* ReassignedToAntarctica: ReassignedToAntarctica:
** InEpisode 12, episode 2-2, being assigned to the EU as a commissioner is described as this since it apparently has been used to get rid of politicians who were too troublesome on the homefront; the discussion provides the episode title, "In Brussels, No One Can Hear You Scream".Scream".
** Episode 4-1 has Birgitte transfer Arctic ambassador Kaare Mathiesen to a consular post in Manila after leaking news of the Greenland oil find to ''Ekspres''.
** In
** Episode 4-1 has Birgitte transfer Arctic ambassador Kaare Mathiesen to a consular post in Manila after leaking news of the Greenland oil find to ''Ekspres''.
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* WhatIfTheBabyIsLikeMe: Kaspar's extreme unwillingness to have children, [[spoiler:due to not wanting to continue the line of his abusive father, and/or fearing that he'll become abusive once he has a child]].
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* WhatIfTheBabyIsLikeMe: Kaspar's Kaspr's extreme unwillingness to have children, [[spoiler:due to not wanting to continue the line of his abusive father, and/or fearing that he'll become abusive once he has a child]].
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* CastingGag: Emil Poulsen (Magnus) played Sidse Babett Knudsen's son before in the 2009 movie Film/OverGadenUnderVandet (released internationally as ''Above the Street, Below The Water'').
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"Borgen" /bɒwən/ is Danish for "The Castle", a nickname for the Christiansborg Palace, the centre of the Danish government. The actual Danish pronunciation is more like "Bauwen". (DR marketed the series with the overseas title ''Government'', but Creator/TheBBC and Link TV chose to use the UntranslatedTitle when transmitting it in English.) The show is a Danish GovernmentProcedural by Adam Price, running from 2010 to 2013. It has been critically acclaimed for its realistic [[FictionalPoliticalParty fictional parties]] and its lack of [[StrawmanPolitical strawman stereotypes]], getting very high ratings in Denmark. The main character is Prime Minister [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent Birgitte Nyborg Christensen]] (Sidse Babett Knudsen), a minor centrist politician who becomes the first female Prime Minister of Denmark against all odds, and who is trying to balance politics, personal problems and her two kids.
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"Borgen" /bɒwən/ [[note]]/bɒwən/[[/note]] is Danish for "The Castle", a nickname for the Christiansborg Palace, the centre of the Danish government. The actual Danish pronunciation is more like "Bauwen". (DR marketed the series with the overseas title ''Government'', but Creator/TheBBC and Link TV chose to use the UntranslatedTitle when transmitting it in English.) The show is a Danish GovernmentProcedural by Adam Price, running from 2010 to 2013. It has been critically acclaimed for its realistic [[FictionalPoliticalParty fictional parties]] and its lack of [[StrawmanPolitical strawman stereotypes]], getting very high ratings in Denmark. The main character is Prime Minister [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent Birgitte Nyborg Christensen]] (Sidse Babett Knudsen), a minor centrist politician who becomes the first female Prime Minister of Denmark against all odds, and who is trying to balance politics, personal problems and her two kids.
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"Borgen" is Danish for "The Castle", a nickname for the Christiansborg Palace, the centre of the Danish government. The actual Danish pronunciation is more like "Bauwen". (DR marketed the series with the overseas title ''Government'', but Creator/TheBBC and Link TV chose to use the UntranslatedTitle when transmitting it in English.) The show is a Danish GovernmentProcedural by Adam Price, running from 2010 to 2013. It has been critically acclaimed for its realistic [[FictionalPoliticalParty fictional parties]] and its lack of [[StrawmanPolitical strawman stereotypes]], getting very high ratings in Denmark. The main character is Prime Minister [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent Birgitte Nyborg Christensen]] (Sidse Babett Knudsen), a minor centrist politician who becomes the first female Prime Minister of Denmark against all odds, and who is trying to balance politics, personal problems and her two kids.
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"Borgen" /bɒwən/ is Danish for "The Castle", a nickname for the Christiansborg Palace, the centre of the Danish government. The actual Danish pronunciation is more like "Bauwen". (DR marketed the series with the overseas title ''Government'', but Creator/TheBBC and Link TV chose to use the UntranslatedTitle when transmitting it in English.) The show is a Danish GovernmentProcedural by Adam Price, running from 2010 to 2013. It has been critically acclaimed for its realistic [[FictionalPoliticalParty fictional parties]] and its lack of [[StrawmanPolitical strawman stereotypes]], getting very high ratings in Denmark. The main character is Prime Minister [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent Birgitte Nyborg Christensen]] (Sidse Babett Knudsen), a minor centrist politician who becomes the first female Prime Minister of Denmark against all odds, and who is trying to balance politics, personal problems and her two kids.
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* ShownTheirWork: Inverted in-universe. Nyborg usually relies on having hard facts to back up her arguments, but in season 3 she's preparing for a crucial TV debate and because she's distracted [[spoiler: by, among other things, pre-cancerous cells that have been found in her breast which she hasn't told anyone else about]], she fails to pay attention to an explanation of the tricky details of her party's economic policy. As a result, she flubs it and has a CriticalResearchFailure live on TV, which makes it easy for her opponents to paint her as someone who doesn't know what she's talking about. [[spoiler: She doesn't make the same mistake twice.]]
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* ShownTheirWork: Inverted in-universe. Nyborg usually relies on having hard facts to back up her arguments, but in season 3 she's preparing for a crucial TV debate and because she's distracted [[spoiler: by, among other things, pre-cancerous cells that have been found in her breast which she hasn't told anyone else about]], she fails to pay attention to an explanation of the tricky details of her party's economic policy. As a result, she flubs it and has a CriticalResearchFailure live on TV, which makes it easy for her opponents to paint her as someone who doesn't know what she's talking about. [[spoiler: She doesn't make the same mistake twice.]]
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* ButNowIMustGo: Having made one too many soul-killing compromises in Season 4, mostly flip-flopping on the Greenland oil issue, and having some dark personal moments like when she insults her own son on live television, Birgitte decides she needs to get out of politics. She surprises everyone by resigning her posts, although PM Kragh is apparently going to appoint her to a non-political role as Denmark's representative to the European Commission.
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** Almost every episode has the title mentioned somewhere in the dialogue.
** The 2022 revival season has one in the season (and apparently series) finale. As Birgitte is off to the climactic New Democrats leadership conference, a TV news anchor says "this is all about the power and the glory."
** Almost every episode has the title mentioned somewhere in the dialogue.
** The 2022 revival season has one in the season (and apparently series) finale. As Birgitte is off to the climactic New Democrats leadership conference, a TV news anchor says "this is all about the power and the glory."
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%%* UndyingLoyalty: Kasper and Bent to Nyborg.
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* HidingBehindTheLanguageBarrier: Subverted. A touchy moment in Season 4 has Birgitte negotiating with the Chinese ambassador, about Greenland, with each of them speaking in English. Birgitte's deputy leans into her ear and mutters in Danish about how she should be careful when discussing "telecommunications and rare earth metals." Soon after the staffer leaves, the Chinese ambassador catches Birgitte by surprise by switching to Danish, in which he is fluent.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Several prominent political characters from the first two seasons disappear after the TimeSkip between Seasons 2 and 3 and Season 3 and 4. [[note]]This can be considered TruthInTelevision: elections took place, some characters lost their seat or didn't stand for election at all, and disappeared from the political arena as a result[[/note]]
** Lars Hesselboe, who was the Liberal prime minister (and Brigitte's boss) at the end of Season 3, doesn't return in Season 4, most likely due to Søren Spanning (the actor who played Hesselboe) passing away in 2020. No mention of his fate is given in-universe, but the fact that the prime minister (Kragh) in Season 4 is from the Labour party, implies that his party lost the last election, and he stepped down as party leader.
** Both Hanne Holm and Ulrich (one of the news anchors and Katrine's former [[FriendlyRivalry rival]] in the newsroom) seem to have left [=TV1=] before the start Season 4. While this can probably be explained as both having moved on to different jobs, they aren't mentioned at all, even though Katrine and Hanne were [[TeamMom quite]] [[TheMentor close]].
** Lars Hesselboe, who was the Liberal prime minister (and Brigitte's boss) at the end of Season 3, doesn't return in Season 4, most likely due to Søren Spanning (the actor who played Hesselboe) passing away in 2020. No mention of his fate is given in-universe, but the fact that the prime minister (Kragh) in Season 4 is from the Labour party, implies that his party lost the last election, and he stepped down as party leader.
** Both Hanne Holm and Ulrich (one of the news anchors and Katrine's former [[FriendlyRivalry rival]] in the newsroom) seem to have left [=TV1=] before the start Season 4. While this can probably be explained as both having moved on to different jobs, they aren't mentioned at all, even though Katrine and Hanne were [[TeamMom quite]] [[TheMentor close]].
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Laugesen is mostly absent in the third season, replaced by Alex as a more subtle evil media person.
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* OutOfFocus: Kaspar in Season 3, which is surprising since he was one of the three protagonists in the first two seasons. But in the third season it's Katrine that's the spin doctor for Birgitte, and Torben that gets the storylines from the [=TV1=] newsroom (an affair, a combative relationship with his new boss). Creator/PilouAsbaek has little to do in the third season other than a brief storyline where he and Katrine are arguing about taking care of their son.
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** Kaspar in Season 3, which is surprising since he was one of the three protagonists in the first two seasons. But in the third season it's Katrine that's the spin doctor for Birgitte, and Torben that gets the storylines from the [=TV1=] newsroom (an affair, a combative relationship with his new boss). Creator/PilouAsbaek has little to do in the third season other than a brief storyline where he and Katrine are arguing about taking care of their son. He is PutOnABus in Season 4, with Katrine briefly mentioning he works in London now.
** Laugesen is mostly absent in the third season, replaced by Alex as a more subtle evil media person. He returns to a more prominent role in the fourth season as a political commentator and [[spoiler: Brigittes unofficial spin doctor]].
** Kaspar in Season 3, which is surprising since he was one of the three protagonists in the first two seasons. But in the third season it's Katrine that's the spin doctor for Birgitte, and Torben that gets the storylines from the [=TV1=] newsroom (an affair, a combative relationship with his new boss). Creator/PilouAsbaek has little to do in the third season other than a brief storyline where he and Katrine are arguing about taking care of their son. He is PutOnABus in Season 4, with Katrine briefly mentioning he works in London now.
** Laugesen is mostly absent in the third season, replaced by Alex as a more subtle evil media person. He returns to a more prominent role in the fourth season as a political commentator and [[spoiler: Brigittes unofficial spin doctor]].
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The third and final season was shown in Denmark in late 2012, and abroad in Britain and Australia in 2013. In 2020, it was announced that the series will revived for a fourth season in 2022, after a deal was struck between DR and Creator/{{Netflix}}. The fourth season, called ''Borgen: Power & Glory'', ran from February to April, 2022.
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The third and final season was shown in Denmark in late 2012, and abroad in Britain and Australia in 2013. In 2020, it was announced that the series will revived for a fourth season in 2022, after a deal was struck between DR and Creator/{{Netflix}}. The fourth season, called ''Borgen: Power & Glory'', ran in Denmark from February to April, 2022. 2022.
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** Some back and forth between Birgitte and her staffer in the firs episode of Season 4 reveals that 1) she is Foreign Minister, 2) serving in the government of PM Signe Kragh, and 3) she and Kragh don't like each other even as they are serving together.
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** Some back and forth between Birgitte and her staffer in the firs first episode of Season 4 reveals that 1) she is Foreign Minister, 2) serving in the government of PM Signe Kragh, and 3) she and Kragh don't like each other even as they are serving together.
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* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: The labour party in season 1, aimed both at Birgitte and at each other. Lampshaded by Marrot, who admits they have a reputation for infighting.
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* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: The labour Labour party in season 1, aimed both at Birgitte and at each other. Lampshaded by Marrot, who admits they have a reputation for infighting.
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** Birgitte herself in Season 4, which finds her as Foreign Minister in PM Kragh's government. This ''should'' be a pretty powerful position, but Kragh regards Birgitte as a political rival, and she has put Birgitte in charge of foreign affairs to ice her out of domestic Danish politics. She also does petty things like scheduling her own press conferences at the same time as Birgitte's in order to rob Birgitte of publicity.
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** Birgitte herself in Season 4, which finds her as Foreign Minister in PM Kragh's government. This ''should'' be a pretty powerful position, but Kragh regards Birgitte as a political rival, and she has put Birgitte in charge of foreign affairs to ice her out of domestic Danish politics. She also does petty things like scheduling her own press conferences at the same time as Birgitte's in order to rob Birgitte of publicity. At the end of the season, [[spoiler: Birgitte arranges for herself to be kicked upstairs even further, getting appointed as EU Commissioner!]]
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* RejectedApology: In the final season, Laugesen tries to apologise to Birgitte privately for his persecution of Laura when she was mentally ill, but Birgitte refuses to accept any apology unless it's in the paper as prominently as the original stories.
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** In the fourth season finale, we get a literal example. [[spoiler: Bent makes a speech at the emergency New Democrat congress where he says he no long recognises Birgitte and endorses her leadership rival. It proves effective and Birgitte realises she has gone too far. She gets Kragh to reverse the decision to exploit the oil find in Denmark, before coming out to resign as party leader.]]
* RejectedApology: In thefinal third season, Laugesen tries to apologise to Birgitte privately for his persecution of Laura when she was mentally ill, but Birgitte refuses to accept any apology unless it's in the paper as prominently as the original stories.
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** In ''Power and Glory'', Nyborg [[spoiler: moves progressively in the cynical direction, starting by changing her position on the oil in Greenland to keep her job as Foreign Minister and hiring Laugesen as a spin doctor. By the end of the season, she's realised she has gone too far and moves back down the scale.]]
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* PopUpTexting: Lots of this in Season 4. Birgitte tends to get into tense text exchanged with PM Kragh. One of these becomes a ChekhovsGun, when a text sent by one of Birgitte's underlings, one with some incriminating info, gets her into a lot of trouble.
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* TheBusCameBack: In a stressful moment in Season 4 Birgitte drops by to visit Bent, her old political mentor, now retired. She's saddened to discover that Bent is being tested for dementia.
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* GoodCopBadCop: Asger tells his boss Birgitte that they need to lean on the American ambassador to help Birgitte out, now that she is in a difficult position because she did the ambassador a favor. He suggests they use the good cop, bad cop routine.
-->'''Birgitte''': Are you the bad cop?\\
'''Asger''': No, you're just the more important cop.
-->'''Birgitte''': Are you the bad cop?\\
'''Asger''': No, you're just the more important cop.
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** Then of course there's Birgitte herself, who got divorced and was a semi-absentee mother for much of her children's lives. In the 2022 revival series she says she's glad that she's got an empty nest now and she can devote herself completely to politics--but she also regards the possibility of resignation with horror, observing that she lives alone and sends herself flowers and wondering who she is if she's not working 19-hour days as the Foreign Minister.
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* ThisIsThePartWhere: As Birgitte leans on the American ambassador in a fateful Season 4 meeting, he says "I guess this is the point where I ask how I can scratch your back?"
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* UncomfortableElevatorMoment: Birgitte is interviewed on [=TV1=], and Katrine is horrified to watch 1) Birgitte doing a 180 on drilling for oil live on the air, 2) Katrine's interviewer refusing to press Birgitte. Immediately afterward they both wind up on the same elevator downstairs. Katrine says that if she'd been asking the questions she would have nailed Birgitte, and Birgitte essentially answers that she wasn't, so too bad.
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* KickedUpstairs: Nyborg ejects Jacob Kruse from her inner circle and appoints him as Denmark's EU Commissioner when he betrays her and Bent by [[spoiler:deliberately endangering Bent by not sharing that he'd had a stroke and should cut back on work]], all to lay groundwork for his own future campaign for prime minister. To make it worse, because he is assigned late, he is given a very minor position.
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** Nyborg ejects Jacob Kruse from her inner circle and appoints him as Denmark's EU Commissioner when he betrays her and Bent by [[spoiler:deliberately endangering Bent by not sharing that he'd had a stroke and should cut back on work]], all to lay groundwork for his own future campaign for prime minister. To make it worse, because he is assigned late, he is given a very minorposition.position.
** Birgitte herself in Season 4, which finds her as Foreign Minister in PM Kragh's government. This ''should'' be a pretty powerful position, but Kragh regards Birgitte as a political rival, and she has put Birgitte in charge of foreign affairs to ice her out of domestic Danish politics. She also does petty things like scheduling her own press conferences at the same time as Birgitte's in order to rob Birgitte of publicity.
** Nyborg ejects Jacob Kruse from her inner circle and appoints him as Denmark's EU Commissioner when he betrays her and Bent by [[spoiler:deliberately endangering Bent by not sharing that he'd had a stroke and should cut back on work]], all to lay groundwork for his own future campaign for prime minister. To make it worse, because he is assigned late, he is given a very minor
** Birgitte herself in Season 4, which finds her as Foreign Minister in PM Kragh's government. This ''should'' be a pretty powerful position, but Kragh regards Birgitte as a political rival, and she has put Birgitte in charge of foreign affairs to ice her out of domestic Danish politics. She also does petty things like scheduling her own press conferences at the same time as Birgitte's in order to rob Birgitte of publicity.
