Show me a woman who doesn’t sort of wish she was Katrine Fønsmark, and you’ll be showing me a liar. Anna Hart on the breakout star of BBC4’s Borgen

Thanks to Borgen, I can now talk really intelligently about fictional Danish politics, a skill I’m not sure will really come in handy that often. The production team that gave us The Killing upped their game with this triple-season tense political thriller, again centered around a strong female principal, Birgitte Nyborg, who we meet in season one as a gutsy politician, good-enough mother and one half of a grown-up, convincing and sexy onscreen marriage. But Birgitte has had to share the limelight with the equally uncompromising, ambitious, flawed but ultimately likeable journalist Katrine Fønsmark, who is arguably the breakout star of the show.

Small Screen Style: Borgen