‘Tyrant’ is terrible ... but I can’t stop watching it

There are guilty pleasures and then there are really guilty pleasures.

When I was a young lad, I remember my father telling me once about a politically incorrect joke he’d heard: “That joke is wrong, but it is rather funny,” he said. He had been an anti-apartheid activist in his youth with a keen sense of political justice, but he also knew a good joke when he heard one.

I feel a little bit like that about Tyrant, a television programme that has just wrapped up its second series. It’s remarkably problematic in a variety of ways, but I find myself incredibly keen to see it renewed for another series.

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