How to evaluate the English drama Yes, Prime Minister?

If an island can only bring one TV series, I will choose to bring the minister/prime minister series.

Several handed down dramas in my mind:

Yes, the minister/prime minister series, the IT crowd, and the Japanese drama White Pagoda. Knight Bojack has this potential if it can maintain its standards.

Among them, the minister still felt funny when I brushed it for the sixth time. The dialogue is carefully selected and the characters are full of wit. I don't know how high it is compared with other political dramas that attract attention by making the plot and ambition bigger and bigger. (I'm not necessarily talking about the house of cards:)

After watching this drama, you will have a comprehensive understanding of the British political system (the upper and lower houses, the opposition party, the civil service system, the shadow cabinet, the inner-party organizational structure, etc.). The biggest difference between these two countries is that the United States chooses the president and Britain chooses the political party.

However, this drama is very demanding in English, and most of the paragraphs are hidden in conversations longer than the sentences in GRE/LSAT reading. Every episode has a joke. Secretaries who like to play word games run around and confuse the minister.

Margaret Thatcher is also a fan of the play. She wrote a joke to invite the protagonists to accompany her, which is a cold joke of a black economist. (It's really cold ...)

"Yes, Minister" and Iron Lady Thatcher's TV sketch video.

Humphrey Appleby, a graduate of Oxford University, is an outstanding civil servant and has been working in the public service system. He served as the permanent secretary of the department in the first three quarters and the cabinet secretary in the last three quarters. He seems to be just the right-hand man of the minister/prime minister, but actually controls almost all political decisions. Humpy's greatest feature is cynicism and elitism. His mantra is: People don't know what they want/you can't just give them what they want.

It is worth mentioning that nigel hawthorne, the actor of Humphrey, won many awards for best actor in TV series for this play, and Paul. BTW, who plays opposite him, has been with him. He is gay.

Jim Hacker is from LSE (on average, there is a black LSE stalk every two episodes). He is the newly appointed Minister of Administration and the Prime Minister for the last three seasons. He plays the role of a comedian most of the time. Jim had an ideal of returning government to the people, but most of his reform plans were frustrated by Humphrey who liked big government. And when he found that the reform would touch his own interests, he would immediately compromise. Of course, there are occasional episodes when he designs Humpy to make a fool of himself, but most of the time he is Humpy's puppet minister.

Bernard was the first supporting actor and served as Jim's private secretary, but administratively he was a subordinate of Humphrey. He is a novice in public service. Sometimes he is intimidated by the dwarf, and sometimes he helps Jim secretly.

One small drawback is that although the ministerial series is a sitcom, the views it presents are actually extremely pessimistic. In a popular saying, children only talk about right and wrong, and adults only look at pros and cons. Because humor and satire should be pushed to the highest level, "bad guys" always win. That cynicism is too infectious. Anyway, I was cheated.

Season 3 Episode 6 Jim found out that Britain sold weapons to Italian terrorists and wanted to expose them, but Egg Head didn't care. According to Humpy, a senior civil servant, the government has nothing to do with right or wrong, but exists to maintain its own development and stability. Jim's sense of justice broke out. He called him a moral vacuum, and he accepted it gladly. In the next instruction to his younger brother Bernard, he proudly said that if you work hard enough, you can become a moral vacuum like me in the future.

Then there are all kinds of absurd stories around three people.

In one episode, Minister Jim wanted to streamline the organization. As a result, after the bill was submitted, the Prime Minister wanted to achieve the effect of layoffs by abolishing his department. In the face of disaster, he immediately abandoned his ruling philosophy, looked around for inside information that could be used to threaten the Prime Minister, and finally successfully cancelled his bill at the last minute.

If you grasp their key points, their hearts and thoughts will follow you.

In the fourth quarter, Premier Jim wanted to cancel the purchase of nuclear weapons (Trident), use the money saved to restore the conscription system, develop local war weapons and improve national defense, and then triggered such a discussion:

Bernard: If this plan can save money and reduce unemployment, then. . . .

Humphrey: (immediately interrupting Bernard) What is our national defense policy?

Bernard: Defending Britain, of course.

H: No, Bernard. It makes people believe that Britain is being defended.

Convince the Russians?

H: No, it's to convince the British. The Russians know that we are the dregs of war. ......

In the end, 20 13 produced a new version of the drama, which was basically an insult and uglification to the old version.