Archangel, then, is a tale of political power and corruption in which self-interested political elites effectively attempt to
strip-mine a parallel timeline for their own gain.
The show's return sees Selina on a book tour for her ghost-written autobiography and waiting for the right moment to announce that she will be running for president - a rich new seam of material for Armando Iannucci and his team to
strip-mine.
But the whole point of a bankruptcy is to solve deep and structural problems in the economic organisation of a major city not to
strip-mine everything from the Bellinis at the museum to the baboons at the Detroit Zoo for however much one-time cash you can squeeze out of them.
You can't neglect it, exploit it,
strip-mine it, pollute it and wonder what happened to the birds and the bees.