Jasper Rees

The return of the implausibly moreish Borgen

Borgen star Sidse Babett Knudsen talks to Jasper Rees about why, after a break of ten years, the hit TV series is back for a fourth season

Centre of attraction: Sidse Babett Knudsen as Birgitte Nyborg. Credit: Mike Kollöffel / Netflix 
issue 28 May 2022

A decade ago the unthinkable happened: a subtitled TV drama about people agreeing with one another went global. On paper it bore the hallmark of a barrel-scraping pitch from Alan Partridge. Somewhere between youth hostelling with Chris Eubank and monkey tennis, he might easily have proposed a new ne plus ultra in implausible entertainment concepts: Danish coalition politics.

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