Prince Andrew’s scandalous interview was made into a mini-series Periroyal Scandal

Periroyal scandal, Yle Areena and TV1 Fri 4.10. at 19:00.

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Princess Diana’s hardly any movies or series will be made about death in a moment, and The Crown -series was also finished, so what now?

The acute gap left in British monarchy dramas seems to be filled by the prince Andrew’n a recent TV interview.

A Netflix film was completed in the spring Scoopin which the main characters are heavily masked Rufus Sewell mixed Gillian Anderson by a BBC reporter Emily Maitlinson in the role.

Now another British production on the exact same subject has been completed.

Fairy royal scandal is a continuation of two previous independent miniseries, For a classic English scandal (2018) and For a peri-British scandal (2021), and in principle it fits well with the whole, but it does not reach the level of its predecessors.

So it is an interview that was conducted shortly after the American businessman convicted of sexual crimes Jeffrey Epstein had been found hanged or hanged in his cell. Andrew’s murky relationships with Epstein and his female friend Ghislaine Maxwelliin had become public already before, and Virginia Giuffre – claimed that she was a victim of Andrew’s sexual abuse as a minor.

Scandal really. the BBC of Newsnight power package, reporter Emily Maitlis and her team started chasing the prince’s interview, which was also its own drama. After many stages, the interview took place at Buckingham Palace in November 2019.

Andrew imagined that it was going well, but he was very wrong. He poked at the camera, spoke softly and didn’t even accidentally apologize to his victim.

Maitlis, on the other hand, could congratulate himself, like the entire BBC team.

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“Andrew imagined that it went well.”

If there is seen Scoop– the movie, A royal scandal it can be quite boring to watch. If Scoop is yet to be seen, the series works reasonably well.

There is no clear difference between these two interpretations or limitations. The newer version tries to get closer to Andrew’s mental movements, and it also emphasizes the waiting of the daughters and especially their own wedding Beatricen point of view. Bea is acting Tilda Swinton’s daughter Honor Swinton Byrne.

However, the psychological level remains superficial, as if assumptions. The series completely lacks the dramatic daring that The Crown best of all, and which he also lost in the end.

It’s fine hard to come up with any reason why Andrew’s interview should still be considered cool. What’s really interesting is the British’s own schizophrenic relationship with their monarchy: on the one hand, they hold on to it, but at the same time they crave these scandals, which one would expect it to fall into before long.

But about this paradox A royal scandal doesn’t tell.

Ruth Wilson is many times better as Maitlis than Gillian Anderson. For once Tony Blairia acted Michael Sheen is unsurprising as Andrew, as is the prince himself.

Comedian Joanna Scanlan plays Andrew’s loyal secretary Amanda Thirskiäfrom which another series of its own could be spun off.