Review: The Regime, "The Heroes' Banquest" | Episode 3
Speedrunning war crimes is a narrative bridge too far, see you for the finale
“You can’t be Robin Hood and the King.”
You also can’t be whatever The Regime is, I’d argue.
Upfront, I should say that this will probably be the last weekly review I write about The Regime. While I intend to keep watching, and will come back for the finale, the absence of weekly discussion and ongoing dialogue strikes me as a clear sign that whatever interest the series has drawn, it doesn’t justify the expense of paying me to be confounded with it.
I don’t need to go over the issues of tone (the music remains a sore spot), or the show’s choice to use its geopolitical intrigue mostly as fodder for interpersonal psychodrama—those have been well documented over the past few weeks. But in “The Heroes’ Banquet,” we have a new problem, albeit one that was previewed in last week’s second installment. Because after beginning with a “Two Months Later” chyron and once more dropping us into an entirely new era of Elena’s neuroses-driven foreign and domestic policy, the episode speedruns…