Has a nice binging style for half of the series, after which it becomes much too obvious what the agenda is i.e. whose side the creators are on. The supposed hired killers are keystone cops, shown so vapid and clumsy it's impossible to believe they'd ever be considered for the assignment had it been... assigned in the first place. Hugh Grant seems to be doing an imitation of Jeremy Thorpe or of the memory of Jeremy Thorpe being a hypocritical English Liberal Party member who is gay while trying to kill his former gay lover. If Grant played the role more naturally or likeable, it might seem like he was taking the wrong side in the matter and playing him contrary to the ultimate conclusion that, once you see the old, contented, real life, openly-gay "victim" Norman Scott smiling into the camera, it's obvious that A VERY ENGLISH SCANDAL was, all along, one man's story and his story alone. The problem is: The best moments, in the show's rudimentary stages, had both characters shown as flaky, flawed, desperate human beings (despite ones power and the others lack of) and, for that, both were initially and equally intriguing.
Review of A Very English Scandal
