Back To Index Yes Minister: The Complete Collection
 Barnes & Noble Everything you never wanted to know about government bureaucracy makes for delectably droll situation comedy in Yes Minister, the legendary early-80s British TV offering. The series follows the cabinet minister of the Department of Administrative Affairs, Jim Hacker (Paul Eddington), as he tries to implement policy with the "help" of that departments chief civil servant, Permanent Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby ({|Sir Nigel Hawthorne|}). Yes Minister is politics, politics, and more politics -- personal issues and stories never enter the fray. And what is explored and exposed is the way that career politicians and career bureaucrats are in fact always at odds. In a clash of personalities, the politicians naive idealism crumples when votes are at stake, while the bureaucrats pragmatism spurs a knee-jerk reaction to preserve the status quo. With the aid of brilliant writing by Anthony Jay and Jonathan Lynn (director of My Cousin Vinny), Eddington and Hawthorn turn this into a hilarious battle, with the glib and manipulative Humphrey getting the upper hand in the series early going, only to see the oft-bamboozled Hacker gradually get the hang of things -- with a little help from his personal secretary, Bernard (Derek Fowlds). While some of Yes Minister is peculiar to the machinations of British parliamentary government, most of it is more than relevant to American democracy as well. And aside from politics, Yes Minister beautifully mines the archetypal British master-servant dynamics in a manner reminiscent of P. G. Wodehouses Jeeves & Wooster series. Television, American or British, rarely reaches this level of clever erudition, and it will come as no surprise that Yes Minister is ranked as one of the top ten British television programs of all time by the British Film Institute. It is TV perfected. Gregory Baird Interested in the song lyrics? - Check out themostlyrics.com! Looking For A DVD? - Check out dvd-a-rama.com! |
|
|||||||
| �2006 CD-A-RAMA.com. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy • Contact Us |
||||||||
