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Positive:
10
Mixed:
7
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Critic Reviews
Sep 18, 2024
Season 1 Review:
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.
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The Observer (UK)Sep 23, 2024
Season 1 Review:
A Very Royal Scandal is much better than Scoop. Like Gillian Anderson as Scoop’s Maitlis, Wilson delivers a distractingly deep voice, but unlike Anderson she doesn’t go the full Beeb-ordained Darth Vader. Wilson also brings light and shade to a complicated woman in an ethically complicated situation.
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Sep 19, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Though the interview is the turning point in the narrative, and takes place in Episode 2, it’s not what’s most intriguing about the show. Instead, amid the muted tones of the palace and the haunting sounds of a clock ticking in the background, “A Very Royal Scandal” offers a master class in perception.
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Sep 18, 2024
Sep 19, 2024
Season 1 Review:
For two hours, A Very Royal Scandal is tightly cut and smartly observed and strategized without being revelatory, despite Maitlis’ direct involvement. .... The final hour, the one meant to reflect on the significance of the cultural moment and its aftermath, is faultier in its approach.
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Sep 19, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Anyone who watches the full interview could rightly wonder, “How could you be so stupid to sit for an interview like this and say things like that?” “Royal” does a thorough, energetic, juicy-but-serious job of answering. And yet, the show can’t escape its own admission that there are much bigger questions one could ask about rape, misogyny, money, secrecy and power. Maitlis has a pat monologue about the injustice of it all, but the call is coming from inside the mini-series.
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Radio TimesSep 18, 2024
Season 1 Review:
As entertainment, character study and thematic exploration, A Very Royal Scandal largely works. However, the former is somewhat diminished, a little unfairly, by this show being second to the punch. To its benefit, it doesn't reach for easy answers, even if the lack of answers may be frustrating.
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The IndependentSep 18, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Most absent from the drama is a proper discussion about, firstly, the impact of the allegations on the victim, Giuffre, and, secondly, the myriad other victims of Epstein’s abuse. Only in the third episode does it transition from journalistic cat and mouse to an introspection on one of the most shocking abuses of power in modern history.
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Sep 18, 2024
Season 1 Review:
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.
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The TelegraphSep 18, 2024
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