Borgen

Synopsis

Days before a general election, a televised blunder by Denmark’s leaders hands an opening to Birgitte Nyborg, the principled leader of a small centrist party, and she becomes the country’s first female prime minister against every expectation. Holding a fragile coalition together, she battles rival parties, her own spin doctor Kasper Juul and the newsroom at TV1, where journalist Katrine Fønsmark fights her own editors for the real story. Governing costs Nyborg her marriage and, at times, her ideals. A decade later she returns as foreign minister, when an oil discovery off Greenland drags Denmark into a new geopolitical storm.