From my review of The Deal, HBO's portrayal of the political rivarly of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, over at newcritics:
The best scenes are filmed in claustrophic spaces - the tiny shared office of newly-elected MPs Brown and Blair, the stifling and smokey train coaches to Scotland, the middle class kitchens and sitting rooms of the English, and the angular pubs and wine bars of London. This isn’t soaring politics; Frear only shows that in clever video clips. This is deal-making or, more accurately, a fine portrayal of the kind of personal compromise that is a necessary ingredient to attaining political power.
Jim Wolcott has his take - and some commentary on British politics - here.
