When the “Middle Europe” palace Chancellor Elena Vernham (Kate Winslet) presides over first appears onscreen in HBO’s miniseries The Regime, it looks more like a dollhouse than a stronghold. The impression—a too-big, too-square blot against a dwarfing mountain range—screams of uber-privileged playtime. Elena and her beta husband Nicky (Guillaume Gallienne) got the keys to the kingdom from Elena’s dead father, whose liver spots she now agonizes over in between spa sessions while he sits in a... Read this story
