It was quite terrible.
Yes, one must suspend belief but the development process seemed to be to get 5 guardian journalists pissed in pub fantasising about Blair's fate, and simply write up the results.
The Blair was just wrong. I think Lindsay is a really great actor, but he was playing someone else. Where was the schmooze of Blair ?
It's lack ruined what might have been so many good set pieces. The bit with the Catholic priest was simply wrong. Absolutely no way would he use the line "I'm an important bloke, don't treat me like an oridnary jerk". Whotever moron wrote that has never not once met a really important person. I suspect the writers confuse this with a runner up in Big Brother.
He would schmooze, and/or get his flunkies to do the heavy. Also he'd go to a bishop, not a parish priest.
Cherie is a nasty piece of work, but she's a focused career woman, she doesn't hang round the house. As it happens I know what she charges, and the idea that they Blairs are dependent upon his book sales is something only a Guardian reader might see as credible.
The sort of Alistair Campbell character was sort of nearly plausible, but only because the actor worked his bollocks off. Or he was someone else and the actor screwed up, hard to tell.
Brown isn't Mr. Charisma, but I've seen him on TV doing the obligatory visits to schools and he's simply not that bad in that way.
The protestor, was good but could have been better. Also the police would have got rid of him on day one.
It was all so wishful thinking.