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A Very English Scandal — Miniseries

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Geordie Gray The Australian Clever, confident, and deliciously cruel, with a perfect script from Queer as Folk creator Russell T. Davies and performances that cannot be bested. Apr 12, 2024 Full Review Kelly Lawler USA Today Hugh Grant is not the adorable rom-com hero you may know him as in this kicky, hilarious limited series. Nov 10, 2021 Full Review Craig Mathieson The Age (Australia) Screenwriter Russell T. Davies delights in scabrous retorts and daft schemes, but the two main characters are captured with illuminating detail and an understanding that personalities can have contradictory extremes. Rated: 4/5 Oct 22, 2019 Full Review Keith Watson Metro Newspaper (UK) Grant's Thorpe is charismatic company yet essentially deeply sad, a stranger even to himself. It's a very English kind of suffering. Rated: 5/5 Mar 8, 2019 Full Review Antonio R. Jiménez Espinof 'A Very English Scandal' chooses humor as a combat weapon: because the oppressors are won with laughter. [Full Review in Spanish] Rated: 4/5 Mar 4, 2019 Full Review James Belfield Stuff.co.nz This masterful drama certainly resurrects the seedier, more headline-grabbing elements of the case and retells them with stunning panache and beautiful comic timing - but the effect now is... to put that version of England on trial. Feb 8, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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Episode 1 Aired May 20, 2018 Episode 1 In England in the early 1960s, politician Jeremy Thorpe begins a whirlwind affair with a young stablehand, Norman Scott; when the relationship turns sour, Norman becomes a secret Jeremy is desperate to hide. Details Episode 2 Aired May 27, 2018 Episode 2 As Jeremy gets one step closer to becoming prime minister, Norman demands that old promises should be honored; with Jeremy's old affair with Norman threatening to derail his political career, he may stop at nothing to silence Norman. Details Episode 3 Aired Jun 3, 2018 Episode 3 Having survived a bungled attempt on his life, Norman publicly accuses Jeremy of being behind a plot to kill him; after years of acrimony between them, Norman and Jeremy finally go head-to-head in court with the world watching. Details Episode 4 Aired Mar 28, 2019 Starring Golden Globe-nominated actor Hugh Grant and based on a true story, "A Very English Scandal" tells the story of Jeremy Thorpe, a member of Parliament who, in 1979, was tried and later acquitted of conspiring to murder his ex-lover, Norman Scott. Beginning in the 1960s, Thorpe is the leader of the Liberal Party, the youngest head of a political party in 100 years. But he is hiding an affair with a man at a time when homosexuality is still illegal. When Scott threatens to reveal the affair, Thorpe decides upon a plan of action that eventually exposes the scandal and leads to a watershed moment in British social and political life, illuminating the level of dark secrets and cover-ups in the British establishment. Details

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