• The series 'Parliament', composed of 10 chapters, can be seen on Filmin and is a political satire set in the corridors of the European Parliament in Brussels

  • The protagonist bears a great physical resemblance to Iñigo Errejón

  • This co-production between France, Belgium and Germany ironizes the European bureaucracy through the figure of three young assistants

The European Parliament has several seats.

One of them is in Strasbourg (France), another in Luxembourg and the third is located in a

very modern building in Brussels

(Belgium) in which political battles are fought every day that, in theory, seek the good of the citizens.

Although, according to the

comedy

Parliament

, which can be seen in Filmin, these meetings are not exactly an example of ethics and morals.

And luckily they are not public.

Michel Specklin (Philippe Duquesne) is an MEP who is adept at getting away from it all.

IN PARLIAMENT, MEPs ARE PUNISHABLE

In the

10 chapters

(less than 30 minutes long) that make up the first season of the

Parliament

series

, a co-production between Belgium, France and Germany, we witness a

real nonsense in which politicians do not fare well.

Defenders of the toughest Brexit without many neurons, MEPs who take refuge in their offices to flee from their responsibilities, parties strewn with alcohol that end in riot or political cronyism that harm voters.

All this and much more appears in a fast-paced comedy that is

the antithesis of the seriousness that

The West Wing of the White House

exhibited

with highly trained politicians and advisers who squandered intelligence in each dialogue written by Aaron Sorkin.

THE PROTAGONIST OF PARLIAMENT IS PHYSICALLY LIKE IÑIGO ERREJÓN

In

Parliament

, the protagonist is Samy Kantor

(Xavier Lacaille, with a

physique very similar to that of Iñigo Errejón

), the young and idealistic French assistant to Michel Specklin (Philippe Duquesne), a MEP who has been sneaking around for three years.

As soon as he reaches his new assignment, Samy will find himself face to face with reality:

MEPs are not the leading men of state

he thought, the dirty work is done by the advisers and assistants ... and, what is worse, the The technical language used in the European Parliament makes everything very difficult.

At his side, Samy will have two friends who are also assistants like him:

Rose (Liz Kingsman)

, an Englishwoman who works for a furious

Brexitera

, and

Torsten (Lucas Englander)

, a German who rows everywhere.

Samy (Xavier Lacaille), the main character, with his friend Torsten (Lucas Englander).

Parliament

reflects a

system full of rules and regulations that looks like gibberish

in which the smartest (ie Germans) get their share every day.

Yes,

in

Parliament

no one comes out alive

from the darts thrown by Émilie Noblet and Jérémie Sein, its creators.

That if the

Germans send and let

others act as if they were laboratory mice, that if the Poles are drunks, the

English are useless

obsessed with annoying the European Union ... even Spain appears represented by

Catalan MEPs confronted with the rest of Spaniards

and by another conservative Spanish MEP monitored by his assistant.

And, in the background, an initiative related to the capture of sharks of which Samy will make a crusade.

PARLIAMENT IS AN ACCELERATED COURSE ON EUROPEAN POLICY

In the end, the series reflects how the (useless?) MEPs are just the visible face of a group of people who do work for the European Union.

In

Parliament they

also settle accounts with the leaders of the extreme right

who are so successful in today's Europe, with the pro-Nazis and with all those who look out for their private interests and not for the common good.

In short, a series that, based on

very successful gags

, can be understood as an accelerated course in European politics but which, at the same time,

will be all the rage among political scientists and Europhobes

.

This last sector, by the way, has more and more members in all the countries that make up the European Union.

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