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While Conservatives are "all swanning around self-importantly, with their factions and their 'star chambers', fighting like rats in a sack, there's a country out here that isn't being governed," Sir Keir said.

If Keoghan’s depiction of a developmentally delayed character veers uncomfortably close to caricature, Farrell, Gleeson and Condon are all sharply compelling as the three main characters, with Condon acquitting herself with particular aplomb as an intelligent woman forced to navigate man feelings writ irrationally, self-importantly large.

“Relevant countries should earnestly respect Solomon Islands’ sovereignty and its independent decisions instead of deciding what others should and should not do self-importantly and condescendingly from a privileged position,” he said.

“I think it’s taking flawed, stupid people making bad decisions and enjoying and pursuing the pathetic, clumsy foolishness relentlessly as far as you possibly can. Nobody enjoys following that road to its very end as much as other comedy writers. Normal people enjoy going there for a laugh, but then want to get back to following a character pursuing a valid and reasonable objective. Comedy writers love a bad, implausible, half-baked goal, and Masters of Atlantis is all fools self-importantly pursuing nonsense.”

They're too self-importantly partisan to have any shame,” Media Research Center contributor Clay Waters wrote.