There's a good and interesting story/movie/miniseries to be made of Norwegian Crown Princess Märtha's efforts and influence in the White House/on FDR in the run-up to the U.S.'s involvement in WWII when much of the nation still saw it as "Europe's problem," but this ain't it.

Started OK enough but quickly goes downhill from there, slowly transforming into a full-on soap opera before your very eyes (FDR's secretary/side-piece catches FDR planting one on Märtha while she's, what, scuttling around the White House, storms out of the room as Märtha chases after her and the secretary freakin' has a gd stroke and dramatically falls to the ground in the middle of the White House hallway puhhhhleaze)
Kyle MacLachlan so terribly miscast as FDR, who _so_ couldn't pull off the weird hammy tone they were taking with the FDR character. Every scene with FDR just brings the show to a screeching halt that made me question why I was continuing to watch this show

Also can't get over the weirdass way royals wave