Borgen

About Borgen

40-year old political leader Birgitte Nyborg secures her party a landslide victory through her idealism and huge effort, then faces the biggest challenge of her life: how most effectively to use the newly won seats, and how far she is willing to go in order to gain as much influence as possible.

DR1's Borgen is a drama series, created by Adam Price. Sidse Babett Knudsen appears as Birgitte Nyborg, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen as Katrine Fønsmark, Mikael Birkkjær as Philip Christensen, and Lars Knutzon as Bent Sejrø.

Its 3 seasons and 30 episodes were broadcast from September 2010 to March 2013. That is around 10 episodes a season.

Shelv files it under political, politician, government, and political drama. American members can watch it on Netflix and Netflix Standard with Ads. It scores 8.1 out of 10 from 283 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-MA rating.

Bodyguard, Veep, and The Diplomat make useful companions to Borgen, all filed under female politician.