EPISODE
A Very English Scandal - Season 1
Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe was tried in 1979 for murder, killing his lesbian mistress. This followed the repeal of the Sexual Offenses Act in the late 1960s. Everything is allowed in sex between everyone.
1970, Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK
26 May 1981, England, UK
4 January 1974, Grey Abbey, Ards, County Down, Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK
30 July 1966, Albrighton, Shropshire, England, UK
19 September 1954, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
1967, Wales, UK
10 May 1968, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England, UK
1948, London, England, UK
21 May 1948, Brisbane, Australia
27 September 1948, Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England, UK
May 21, 2018
It's a superb performance full of charm that pivots into ruthlessness and menace.
May 22, 2018
It is a drama as brutally funny, endlessly clever, justifiably confident as its protagonist; an immaculately-scripted hour that entwines two decades of salient political history with a finely-worked portrait of the English establishment...
May 25, 2018
[Hugh Grant] manages to add a note of paranoid cruelty to the politician's glad-handed arrogance, as he melts in an angry cardigan beneath a mocking crown of Vitalis.
May 21, 2018
A Very English Scandal is a fascinating, appalling and often scathingly funny journey through the putrescent innards of the British political establishment.
May 22, 2018
A Very English Scandal has managed to capture both the tragedy and the farce of this most peculiar of political sex scandals.
May 22, 2018
Hideously entertaining.
May 21, 2018
In TV terms, though, [A Very English Scandal] was a diamond.
May 22, 2018
Briskly paced and funny when it can be, A Very English Scandal makes a good case for the Thorpe affair as the "trial of the century."
May 22, 2018
A Very English Scandal sees writer Russell T Davies finally getting his wish to work with [Hugh] Grant. It's been worth the long wait for both of them - and for us, too.
May 23, 2018
Hugh Grant is Thorpe, and everything about his performance is exactly so. In middle age, his particular charm has a somewhat cobwebby quality, which seems just right.
