A Very English Scandal - Season 1
Due to the request of many people, homosexuality was abolished in the late 1960s but the murder was not abolished. The leader of the British Liberal Party, Jeremy Thorpe, has killed his lesbian mistress, so he has been charged and tried.
30 July 1966, Albrighton, Shropshire, England, UK
1948, London, England, UK
20 August 1990, Hendon, London, England, UK
19 September 1964, London, England, UK
31 July 1952, London, England, UK
26 May 1981, England, UK
1976, London, England, UK
4 January 1974, Grey Abbey, Ards, County Down, Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK
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 21, 2018
It's a superb performance full of charm that pivots into ruthlessness and menace.
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 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
Hideously entertaining.
May 21, 2018
In TV terms, though, [A Very English Scandal] was a diamond.
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 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 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.
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.