The best tv political drama in Europe, and perhaps the world? Borgen (Danish for "castle" and a reference to the parliamentary building) might as well be, if it isn't...certainly the only thing in its league in the US right now is The Good Wife, which has a somewhat wider remit, while Borgen digs in deep...into the processes of politics and government, as well as into the lives of the characters in the series. In the third season premiere, the former Prime Minister of Denmark, Brigitte Nyborg, who oversaw a tempestuous coalition of her small Moderate Party (based on the actual Radical Party) and largely parties of the left, has been for some months retired from politics, and on the boards of several international corporations and giving a rather canned speech or so to any number of audiences. But she, and the other characters carrying over from previous seasons, find the pull of the current political situation irresistible, particularly as the "pragmatic" and essentially principle-free current neoliberal leader of the Moderates makes a ruthless common cause with the rightist parties in Denmark...Eminently worth the hour: http://www.linktv.org/video/9066/borgen-episode-21-in-denmark-i-was-born