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.
A Very English Scandal is a fascinating, appalling and often scathingly funny journey through the putrescent innards of the British political establishment.
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.
[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.
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...
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.