This three-part mini-series is a dark comedy representation of the Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe’s outing of his homosexual affair with Norman Scott.
At the time (1960′s) homosexuality was illegal in Britain.
The series is great - Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw are wonderful in their respective roles (Whishaw brings a very uncomfortable, believable slightly unhinged knife-edge performance, which feels very real and known as an archetype in queer circles) and Grant is wonderfully alien as the elite politician Thorpe.
I remember being a kid and jokes on sketch comedies were still referencing this (which happened before my time) and not really knowing what the deal was, apart from that “being gay was shameful.”
Again, it’s the historical narrative that I found most interesting here, it was informative and, Whishaw’s speech, as Norman Scott, in court on the stand in Part 3 was surprisingly inspiring.
Speaking of Part 3 - it’s in the final act that Adrian Scarborough as the lawyer for Thrope, George Carman is really great and brings an energy that could have made the final act quite dull.
Overall it’s a fun, dark, wild romp and another important slice of queer history.
It’s so tragic to see that murder and death is a viable option (at the time) to conceal one’s shameful* homosexuality, and the idea of Thorpe wanting to kill his lover Scott to make him disappear is another heartbreaking broken logic jump that we have the straights™ to blame for.
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