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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Despite being a self-professed libertarian interested in cutting costs, Peter appears to genuinely believe that privatizing Britain's health care will improve life for Britains. He's also disgusted with British prisons and hopes to improve lives for prisoners with his reforms.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Despite being a self-professed libertarian interested in cutting costs, Peter appears to genuinely believe that privatizing Britain's health care will improve life for Britains.Britons. He's also disgusted with British prisons and hopes to improve lives for prisoners with his reforms.
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* ObsessivelyOrganized: Peter is notably picky about even a ''slight'' stain on someone's clothes and people eating in front of him. While he plays it off as nothing important, he grouses loudly to Duncan in private about people getting sloppy.
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* SuperOCD: Understated. Peter is notably picky about even a ''slight'' stain on someone's clothes and people eating in front of him. While he plays it off as nothing important, he grouses loudly to Duncan in private about people getting sloppy.
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Creator/HelenMcCrory plays PM Dawn Ellison, who doesn't trust Peter.
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Creator/HelenMcCrory (in her final acting performance before her death in April 2021) plays PM Dawn Ellison, who doesn't trust Peter.
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* BittersweetEnding: Depending on who the viewer supports. [[spoiler: On one hand, Peter successfully gets away with every crime or moral failing and becomes even more powerful as a result. Lily, Sydney, and Duncan end up suffering or getting dismissed as a result of Peter's success. On the other hand, Peter's friends have more control over him than he thinks and his wife's refusal to dissolve one of his private accounts could prove the end of his career if it gets exposed.]]
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* IntrepidReporter: Deconstructed. Charmian’s pursuit of Laurence’s crimes and insistence on protecting her sources like any good version of the trope... but when she can’t back up her story, the insurance company for the newspaper won’t pay out for the lawsuit. Part of the reason she has to pursue the truth is to save her job after she’s cost the newspaper ''over a million pounds.'' It also puts her in situations that risk her sobriety, particularly when her leads spike her drinks.
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* IntrepidReporter: Deconstructed. Charmian’s pursuit of Laurence’s crimes and insistence on protecting her sources like any good version of the trope... but when she can’t back up her story, the insurance company for the newspaper won’t pay out for the lawsuit. Part of the reason she has to pursue the truth is to save her job after she’s cost the newspaper ''over a million pounds.'' It also puts her in situations that [[spoiler: Even after Joe picks up where Charmian left off, the financial risk her sobriety, particularly when her leads spike her drinks. proves too great for the paper and they bury any Peter stories.]]
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* OutGambitted: By the season finale, Peter's family has fallen apart, the paper is about to release Charmian's evidence, and his enemies are positioned to expose Rosa if he steps out of line. [[spoiler: Then Peter chooses to simply reveal the existence of his daughter on live tv and ''fully accept her.'' The touching act quickly makes it impossible for the paper to expose him without looking petty or for his enemies to control him. Even his wife seems to forgive him, despite her reservations. Within ''two months,'' his popularity skyrocketed him to become Prime Minister.]]
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* DistantFinale: The ending of the last episode comes eight weeks later, with Peter triumphing and becoming Prime Minister, but with his wife still holding the incriminating papers to Stanfield Titles.
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* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Vanessa, a career Civil Service bureaucrat and undersecretary at Ministry of Justice
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* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Vanessa, a career Civil Service bureaucrat and undersecretary at Ministry of JusticeJustice, who regards Peter as an interloper and pushes against his reforms.
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* TheMole: Sydney, Peter's chauffeur. She hates him and is spilling his secrets.
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* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Peter and the party chairman are playing chess at the end of episode 3, in a scene that demonstrates their political scheming.
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* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Vanessa, a career Civil Service bureaucrat and undersecretary at Ministry of Justice
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Rosa is startled when Peter pulls out a phone in the prison meeting room, saying it's not allowed. Peter's only reply is "I'm the Minister of Justice."
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Peter and Adam the party chairman are playing chess at the end of episode 3, in a scene that demonstrates their political scheming.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Rosa is startled when Peter pulls out a phone in the prison meeting room, saying it's not allowed. Peter's only reply is "I'm the Minister of Justice."
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* ThatsAnOrder: Peter has to say this to Vanessa when she resists re-inserting his prison reform proposals into his budget bill.
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* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Peter and the party chairman are playing chess at the end of episode 3, in a scene that demonstrates their political scheming.
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* FictionalCounterpart: ''AllTalk'' radio presumably stands in for LBC.
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* FictionalCounterpart: ''AllTalk'' ''All Talk'' radio presumably stands in for LBC.
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* IntrepidReporter: Deconstructed. Charmain’s Charmian’s pursuit of Laurence’s crimes and insistence on protecting her sources like any good version of the trope... but when she can’t back up her story, the insurance company for the newspaper won’t pay out for the lawsuit. Part of the reason she has to pursue the truth is to save her job after she’s cost the newspaper ''over a million pounds.'' It also puts her in situations that risk her sobriety, particularly when her leads spike her drinks.
* LongLostRelative: Peter's problems start in the first episode when he receives word that someone in a woman's prison is claiming to be his daughter.
* LongLostRelative: Peter's problems start in the first episode when he receives word that someone in a woman's prison is claiming to be his daughter.
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* DecoyProtagonist: It seems as if Charmian is one of the two protagonists, the IntrepidReporter with a DarkAndTroubledPast who's going to take down Peter. But halfway through the second episode of a four-episode series, right after she's found an important witness to Peter's corruption, she's hit in the street by a truck and killed.
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Roadkill is a 2020 BBC miniseries about cabinet minister Peter Laurence (Creator/HughLaurie) and the dark past that haunts him.
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Creator/HelenMcCrory plays PM Dawn Ellison, who doesn't trust Peter.
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* VisualTitleDrop: At the end of episode 2, while distracted by a stressful phone call from his wife, Peter hits a deer.
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* IronicJuxtaposition: A scene at the grim women's prison mess hall is followed by a cut to a fancy government soirée where Margaret MooreMoore is toting around a plate of hors d'oeuvre.
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* IronicJuxtaposition: Margaret Moore
* TropaholicsAnonymous: Charmian is an alcoholic. Sober a few months, she goes to a meeting in the first episode after getting fired from the newspaper.
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* CorruptBureaucrat: The warden of the Rosa's prison is of particular note. When she isn't [[WardensAreEvil ruthless]], Rosa notes that the facility has little support despite its large funding and the staff is poorly trained, to the point a guard admits she doesn't know how to use a defibrillator when a prisoner goes into a drug overdose. But rather than improve conditions, she refuses Rosa's official complaint, implies that the prisoners gave up their rights when they became criminals, and uses her authority to gain an advantage over Peter Laurence.
* DoomedFellowPrisoner: Rosa's cellmmate Steph quickly falls into despair when it becomes apparent her sentence has been extended and it only gets worse for her from there.
* DoomedFellowPrisoner: Rosa's cellmmate Steph quickly falls into despair when it becomes apparent her sentence has been extended and it only gets worse for her from there.
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* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Zig-zagged with Lily and Susan. Initially, Lily seems more responsible as the respected college student, while Susan vanished on a drug binge. Then Lily gets caught at a drug-filled party, while Susan has cleaned up and works in helping the environment. Their attitudes further complicate the roles: while Lily is horrified by the flaws in her family, Susan is laidback and amused by the chaos around her.
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* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Peter's daughter Lily getting caught doing drugs at a party, right after he's been placed to run the Justice Ministry, is frequently noted by his critics. Its part of why Duncan insists on investigating the possibility of an another daughter in prison.
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* IntrepidReporter: Deconstructed. Charmain’s pursuit of Laurence’s crimes and insistence on protecting her sources is honorable...like any good version of the trope... but when she can’t back up her story, the insurance company for the newspaper won’t pay out for the lawsuit. Part of the reason she has to pursue the truth is to save her job after she’s cost the newspaper over ''over a million pounds.'' It also puts her in situations that risk her sobriety, particularly when her leads spike her drinks.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Part of why people adore Peter is due to how respectful he is to people regardless of class. But while he's pleasant to their faces, he's also perfectly happy to plot to sabotage the NHS, hurting those same constituents that love him, for the sake of profit.
* SuperOCD: Understated. Peter is notably picky about even a ''slight'' stain on someone's clothes and people eating in front of him. While he plays it off as nothing important, he grouses loudly to Duncan in private about people getting sloppy.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Part of why people adore Peter is due to how respectful he is to people regardless of class. But while he's pleasant to their faces, he's also perfectly happy to plot to sabotage the NHS, hurting those same constituents that love him, for the sake of profit.
* SuperOCD: Understated. Peter is notably picky about even a ''slight'' stain on someone's clothes and people eating in front of him. While he plays it off as nothing important, he grouses loudly to Duncan in private about people getting sloppy.
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* OutOfOrder: The interior set of Number 10 shows portraits of former Prime Ministers going up the grand staircase, but David Lloyd George (1916-1922) is placed between Wellington (1828-1830), Perceval (1809-1812) and Grey (1830-1834).
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Laurence mentions that Brexit is over and Britain has moved on. It's not mentioned, but presumably the Coronavirus pandemic has been survived also.
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** Government offices are [[BlandNameProduct slightly renamed]] - the Department for Transport becomes the Ministry of Transport, whereas the Ministry of Justice becomes the Department of Justice.[[note]]Although curiously still ''called'' "Ministry" in earlier dialogue.[[/note]] Unlike in some other examples, the royal coat of arms in each departmental logo is not redesigned, but filmed so that they are subtly blurred.
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* OutOfOrder: The interior set of Number 10 shows portraits of former Prime Ministers going up the grand staircase, but David Lloyd George (1916-1922) is placed between Wellington (1828-1830), Perceval (1809-1812) and Grey (1830-1834).
* OutOfOrder: The interior set of Number 10 shows portraits of former Prime Ministers going up the grand staircase, but David Lloyd George (1916-1922) is placed between Wellington (1828-1830), Perceval (1809-1812) and Grey (1830-1834).
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**Government offices are [[BlandNameProduct slightly renamed]] - the Department for Transport becomes the Ministry of Transport, whereas the Ministry of Justice becomes the Department of Justice.[[note]]Although curiously still ''called'' "Ministry" in earlier dialogue.[[/note]] Unlike in some other examples, the royal coat of arms in each departmental logo is not redesigned, but filmed so that they are subtly blurred.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Look behind the smile.]]
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Roadkill is a 2020 BBC miniseries about cabinet minister Peter Laurence (Hugh Laurie) and the dark past that haunts him.
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!!Tropes present in ''Roadkill'':
*TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Laurence mentions that Brexit is over and Britain has moved on. It's not mentioned, but presumably the Coronavirus pandemic has been survived also.
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!!Tropes present in ''Roadkill'':
*TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Laurence mentions that Brexit is over and Britain has moved on. It's not mentioned, but presumably the Coronavirus pandemic has been survived also.
