The best series of the week: Borgen, exemplary fiction

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After The West Wing of the White House, Denmark 's

is the most influential political series.

More than

and certainly more than the American

, that maximalist hoax that under a cunning Fincherian wrapper (that bluish filter) hid one of those soap operas with a lot of spin and very little substance.

Borgen is something else, something more important.

There was a time.

An endearing moment, in which Spanish politicians of all stripes recommended it enthusiastically.

I remember at least three that spoke of

as if they had discovered it.

They also did it without going into details that would not benefit them.

Some wanted to see themselves reflected in that dignified Birgitte Nyborg who had become the Danish prime minister on the rebound, after a wild televised electoral debate.

Others forgot the insignificant corruption that acted as the real spigot of the plot.

One of those situations for which almost any national politician would demand the resignation of others but would consider it unimportant if it had him as the protagonist.

Or to her, because then came the images of Cristina Cifuentes and the creams and Spain was indeed Borgen for a few months.

Or rather a Berlanguian parody of Borgen.

Nine years after the end of its third season, and with the awful title of

, Netflix has brought back the

.

As usual in the house of the red N, the entire season is now available on the platform.

I'm not going to deny it: before even seeing a minute of this new Borgen I already knew that the series would occupy the place it occupies on this page, that of the best series of the week.

It's his thing.

Borgen returns presenting his characters.

To the old and the new.

Birgitte is now foreign minister.

And she comes up with a big one: there is oil in Greenland and the rulers of the island are not willing to give up its exploitation.

Again, Borgen opening a royal melon.

Luckily (or is it unluckily?) the international political scene that fiction poses has important differences with the one we live in today.

You know: Russia.

That allows the series to

, but also reaffirms it as a creation of screenwriters.

An invention.

When those Spanish politicians (many of them today deactivated, by the way) praised Borgen's virtues, it sometimes seemed that they forgot that: that Birgitte Nyborg is a fictional character and her story a creation.

The setting of her series is more than recognizable, of course, but that doesn't make it a documentary.

More than once we heard about Danish politics in terms that betrayed that whoever did it was referring to Borgen's politics.

As if we believed that the White House of The West Wing is the real one.

Or that Kevin Spacey is the real president.

Let's enjoy Borgen for the fourth time without saying such nonsense, please.

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