The Westminster estate includes a hotchpotch of buildings from different eras, from the 900-year-old Westminster Hall, to the modern Portcullis House, with its vast glass atrium, which opened in 2001 and would be unaffected by the repairs programme.
Having only watched the opening, feature-length episode – a hotchpotch of plotlines including adulterous lust, corporate bids, fossil discovery, frostbite, a shady sheriff, a murdered professor – it's hard to know if Fortitude is heading anywhere aside from up its own, icily cold, bum.
"Or do you want to help pull Bulgaria on the path towards progress?" The last government was brought down amid protests over a hotchpotch of causes including soaring energy bills and low pensions, but this time the people are protesting about corruption in the political elite, shady ties between the government and businesses and power-grabbing oligarchs.
This is fortunate since it includes everything from cheap 1970s nasties to a hotchpotch of "New Age" footage featuring yogic chants, lesbian mermaids and "cry-gasms".
More than £600m has been spent on the massive universal credit project, intended to replace a hotchpotch of benefits and tax credit topups with a simple, single monthly payment to claimants that would include a "subsidy to work".
That is not surprising, since the localism bill is a hotchpotch of reforms.
The north has a hotchpotch of local councils, elected Mayors, city regions and combined authorities.
The Whig party was closer to a hotchpotch of self-interested and discordant MPs.
It was a hotchpotch of a speech, providing neither inspiration nor challenge.
Until then, Willowfield will remain in its present buildings – a hotchpotch of Victorian, Sixties and Eighties architecture.
