# BBC's The Politician's Husband

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**Created:** [June 2, 2013, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbcs-the-politicians-husband/659923 "2013-06-02T05:15:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbcs-the-politicians-husband/659923/1 "2013-06-02T05:15:14Z")

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Did anyone catch this? I been seeing it over the last few days and completed it last night. David Tennant and Emily Watson play a married political couple.

While the actors are first rate and the series is at times gripping, I found the ending “twist” irrational and unbelievable. Moreover, Tennant’s character is the most unevenly written one going from Loving Husband to damned psychopath in the same scene sometimes.

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**Author:** ![II\_Gyan\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@II\_Gyan\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/II_Gyan_II)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbcs-the-politicians-husband/659923/2 "2013-06-02T06:02:03Z")

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About the ending:

Because they jumped straight from the present day to the new government, they couldn’t really sell her becoming the PM or even them becoming Nos. 1 and 2. I saw it just as an emotional resolution. She had waited in the wings and put her ambitions subordinate to his, and in the end hers came to fruition and his didn’t.

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**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbcs-the-politicians-husband/659923/3 "2013-06-02T07:40:32Z")

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Well

They say that it is six months later. Freya becomes PM after being in the Cabinet for just a few months and never having held a Great office of state. Unrealistic and frankly the twist was formulaistic

Moreover

I wish she had cheated on him. It would have given that character more gravitas. She was willing to sell him under and admitted it.

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**Author:** ![Parenchyma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Parenchyma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Parenchyma)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbcs-the-politicians-husband/659923/4 "2013-06-02T23:08:19Z")

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I watched two of the episodes on the iPlayer and didn’t like it enough to watch the third. It was okay, but like the _Spies of Warsaw_ series, not good enough to go through the VPN rigamarole for another episode. I liked the idea of both, but was a little bored by the execution. I did like the performances of the leads, plus his father and Roger Allam. The sex scenes that were, I think, supposed to be a little shocking were clunky.

After a previous thread asking for David Tennant recs, I did find his _Casanova_ and enjoyed it. It sounds like _Broadchurch_ was good too, but I never could get the ITV player to work. Also unable to get the _Blackpool_ DVDs from any library around here. But it looks like his plan might be to keep doing regular TV and I’ll keep track of what he’s in.