My wife and I really enjoy this series!
Phillippe reminds me of JR Ewing of Dallas; always plotting ahead and trying to steer things/people to his benefit. He's not the one you wish you were, but you sure wish you had his shrudeness sometimes.
This is politics, and I am pretty sure that what happens in the series is not far from real life. Even in our Swedish, compared to this series, very calm political scene I am sure there is a lot of similarities. The Håkan Juholt "thing" a couple of years ago for example.
I get good laughs and giggles from this!