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- 2024
- Prime Video
- 2024
- Prime Video
Summary The infamous 2019 Newsnight interview of Prince Andrew (Michael Sheen) by the BBC's Emily Maitlis (Ruth Wilson) is dramatized as a three-part limited series.
- 2024
- Prime Video
- 2024
- Prime Video
A Very Royal Scandal
Season 1 Premiere: Sep 19, 2024
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Summary The infamous 2019 Newsnight interview of Prince Andrew (Michael Sheen) by the BBC's Emily Maitlis (Ruth Wilson) is dramatized as a three-part limited series.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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56% Positive
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44% Mixed
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Its three episodes (all of which were available for review) have a distinct Prestige TV seriousness, but while it’s clear its take on the (pardon the pun) scandalous central interview is what people will likely tune in to see, the show itself, to its credit, does try to push beyond being a mere recreation. In fact, while Sheen and Wilson are dynamite together in the few scenes they share, A Very Royal Scandal’s most interesting elements are found outside those familiar moments.
It is not perfect, but it is highly entertaining and, in my opinion, a better piece of television than Scoop.
While it’s a far more satisfying version of this story than the one retold in Scoop, A Very Royal Scandal may suffer from coming out second and relitigating (very recent) history.
By Kayleigh Donaldson
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A Very Royal Scandal does a good job of showing all perspectives and putting this specific situation into a greater context that questions right and wrong. Ultimately, it leaves the drawing of conclusions to the viewer.
Like Maitlis, A Very Royal Scandal handles itself with comportment and class, but as a drama, it is too frictionless for its own good.
Maitlis is portrayed as a somewhat scatterbrained albeit serious journalist, constantly running late and misplacing shoes as she juggles work and family, while Andrew comes across as boorish, offensive, and woefully disconnected from the real world. Among Sheen’s several excellent impersonations of real-life figures in both television and film, his interpretation of Prince Andrew as a petulant uncle feels phoned-in and thinly sketched. .... It’s only in the last of the three episodes that the series touches on anything that could be described as revelatory.
By pine breaks
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This is the second recreation of the 2019 encounter that proved so disastrous for the Duke of York, and it definitely feels like one too many. .... She [Emily Maitlis] is played by Ruth Wilson, who is less fun in the role than Scoop’s Gillian Anderson.
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Production Company:
- Blueprint Pictures
Initial Release Date: Sep 19, 2024
Number of seasons: 1 Season
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