Back in 2005 there was a short-lived German TV show called
Kanzleramt (
Chancellery) which probably was supposed to be a domestic version of
The West Wing. I found that show to be rather dull and boring, lacking both humour and drama. The Danes did it much better with
Borgen a couple of years later.
The oddest aspect about
Kanzleramt probably was that they generally dodged around the question which political party the fictional Chancellor, his coalition partners and the opposition belonged to. This led to the Chancellor's political leanings and agenda either not being mentioned at all, only being described in the most general terms, or being all over the place. In the end he seemed to be a bit of a cross between a CDU, SPD, and FDP politician. Maybe this was because we Germans tend to be rather stiff about such things? If it had been a fictional CDU or SPD Chancellor it could have been quickly accussed of being a pro-CDU or pro-SPD propaganda show, leadng to a "media scandal" in itself. So, to avoid any controversy, political parties didn't really exist in that fictional universe, fulfilling Wilhelm II's old WWI-era promise of "I know no parties anymore, I know only Germans".
In 2020, there was also a political drama called
Die Getriebenen (
The Driven), a fictionalized account of the 2015 refugee crisis from the perspective of the Merkel government. While I mostly agreed with the movie's political stance I also found to be unintentionally funny. Most of the politicians were reduced to being caricatures. Characters in that film only seemed to possess a
single trait which had been turned up to eleven, leading to everyone being a one-dimensional cardboard (e.g. Sigmar Gabriel = overly ambitious and opportunistic, Horst Seehofer = well-intentioned, but ultimately misguided). Overall, I'd say
Die Getriebenen had a bit of a "so bad it is good" quality.
