Prince Andrew Back for More Humiliation With ‘A Very Royal Scandal’
Prince Andrew Back for More Humiliation With ‘A Very Royal Scandal’
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Christopher Raphael/Amazon StudiosPrince Andrew’s car-crash interview with BBC Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis in 2019 was many things. Another nail in the coffin for the British monarchy. A masterclass in how not to defend yourself against allegations of sexual assault. An unofficial advertisement for the Woking branch of Pizza Express. But worthy of spawning two star-studded dramatizations in the space of five months?Following in the footsteps of twin movies such as Deep Impact/Armageddon, Antz/A Bug’s Life and the two schadenfreude-dripping Fyre festival docs, Amazon’s A Very Royal Scandal arrives soon after Netflix’s Scoop first explored how two of Britain’s biggest institutions so infamously aligned. Surely the streaming giant is vastly overestimating public interest in a conversation which, although jaw-dropping in its remarkable candidness and self-unawareness, hardly changed the course of history?Well, possibly. Anyone who sat through Scoop—a surface-level retelling which dedicated more time to no-nonsense booking agent Sam McAlister than the story’s two central figures (admittedly, it was based on her memoir)—is unlikely to spend an additional three hours watching the machinations of the same TV interview. Nevertheless, just like the A Very ... Scandal anthology did with two other high establishment sagas (the Thorpe affair, the Argyll divorce), this third instalment digs further to bring something new to the aristocratic table.Read more at The Daily Beast.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/a-very-royal-scandal-prince-andrew-back-for-more-humiliation
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Christopher Raphael/Amazon StudiosPrince Andrew’s car-crash interview with BBC Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis in 2019 was many things. Another nail in the coffin for the British monarchy. A masterclass in how not to defend yourself against allegations of sexual assault. An unofficial advertisement for the Woking branch of Pizza Express. But worthy of spawning two star-studded dramatizations in the space of five months?Following in the footsteps of twin movies such as Deep Impact/Armageddon, Antz/A Bug’s Life and the two schadenfreude-dripping Fyre festival docs, Amazon’s A Very Royal Scandal arrives soon after Netflix’s Scoop first explored how two of Britain’s biggest institutions so infamously aligned. Surely the streaming giant is vastly overestimating public interest in a conversation which, although jaw-dropping in its remarkable candidness and self-unawareness, hardly changed the course of history?Well, possibly. Anyone who sat through Scoop—a surface-level retelling which dedicated more time to no-nonsense booking agent Sam McAlister than the story’s two central figures (admittedly, it was based on her memoir)—is unlikely to spend an additional three hours watching the machinations of the same TV interview. Nevertheless, just like the A Very ... Scandal anthology did with two other high establishment sagas (the Thorpe affair, the Argyll divorce), this third instalment digs further to bring something new to the aristocratic table.Read more at The Daily Beast.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/a-very-royal-scandal-prince-andrew-back-for-more-humiliation