I started this when it first came out; I had just marked number one so I thought I wasn't interested but I couldn't sleep last night so I thought I would give it a try again. Come to find out, I had watched the first three and here's where I ended back in 2020. So started this one today, where 500k+ Californias are now without power,etc., from a natural disaster. I'm sure they're handling it better than the Brits in this scenario. In fact that's what I kept wondering through the whole show- what was going on in the rest of the world? We in the US have suffered through winter outages and hurricane shortages, etc., etc., and things never looked this bleak! If it were true to life is it because of the Brit's socialism?
Robert Carlisle is such a good actor and the rest of the cast is quite up to his standard as well. The writing is above average but not one of the best coming out of SKY. Certainly not up to "West Wing's" first six but I'm glad I've waited because now I have more to view and to see the side of the British government in action. I think it's probably very true to life because we have to remember their social and 'class' structure differences than ours but the similarities are rather interesting if not humorous. Politicians be politicians ;-)