警視庁ナシゴレン課――そこは捜査に出向くことなく、刑事部屋で難事件を解決する、極秘部署！ 島崎ふんするナシゴレン課のデカ長・風早恭子は弱冠25歳。足を使った地味な捜査は一切せず、卓越した洞察力、推理力を駆使して、難解な事件を鮮やかに解決していく。 ドラマは、苦節25年の交番勤務を経て48歳で刑事になった新人刑事・石鍋幹太がナシゴレン課にやって来るところから幕を開ける。 自由奔放で高飛車なデカ長・恭子と、個性的すぎる6名の部下たち。いったい彼らは推理だけでどうやって事件を解決していくのか!? そして、島崎遥香は古田新太、勝村政信ら実力派キャストたちにどうぶつかっていくのか!? 事件は“現場”…ではなく、“ナシゴレン課”で起きていく――!? 捜査なんかしなくても解決さえしちゃえば、それで問題ナシゴレン！
Told by way of retrospective interviews and actuality, this is quite an interesting chronology of the life, rise and fall of a woman who dominated the British, and to a certain extent the global, political stage during the 1980s. Sadly, like so many of these style documentaries, it is somewhat adulatory in it's delivery. We celebrate, rightly up to point, the achievements of a woman entering British politics in the 1950s and having to fight a series of battles just to get nominated for a ballot paper, let alone elected - her struggle with a sexist, nigh on misogynist environment where women were rarely, if ever, considered suitable for political life by the establishment gentlemen. The use of footage to illustrate the story is straightforward enough, but the commentaries lack punch - the visuals allow us to see what we see, and those of us who lived through her administrations will remember her as we saw her at the time, and through whatever coloured lens we chose to look at her legacy. This film, however, makes little attempt to offer any critical judgement on that legacy, and though it does illustrate just how determined/bloody-minded the woman was, it offers us precious little insight as to what made her tick, that we had not already seen many times before.
