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The Regime is a limited series for HBO created by Will Tracy and released in 2024.

Losing her grip on her country, Chancellor Elena Vernham (Kate Winslet) becoming increasingly paranoid and unstable and turns to an unlikely confidant in volatile and disgraced soldier, Herbert Zubak (Matthias Schoenaerts).

With Zubak's help, Vernham attempts to diminish foreign superpowers like China and the US, defeat local rebels and stave off a lingering political threat from the country's previous Chancellor, Edward Keplinger, played by Hugh Grant.


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