If real-life politics fills you with despair, try diving into one of these tense thrillers. Packed with plot twists, power struggles and political scandals, these bingeworthy shows will have you hooked from the start. Here are our top picks.

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Suranne Jones stars as the "no-nonsense" newly elected prime minister in this "globetrotting" political thriller, said Lucy Mangan in The Guardian . When her husband, a doctor working to distribute vaccinations in French Guiana, is kidnapped by "unknown terrorists", she must try to save him while managing a national emergency. It's a "rollicking, propulsive and compulsive yarn", and Jones is "terrific" as an "everywoman in extraordinary circumstances". While I sometimes find myself

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