A jaw-dropping reveal in Netflix’s twisty new courtroom thriller has become talked about for all the wrong reasons
admitting to his wife that he had a brief affair with a colleague. He rides out the scandal but, just as the fuss is starting to die down, he is accused of rape. How does Rupert Friend, the star of this apparently prestigious and strait-laced legal drama, react to the accusation? Here’s how: by literally flying backwards through the air in slow motion, like he’s being flung backwards by an invisible explosion.
This happens entirely unannounced, by the way. Rupert Friend flying through the air comes after a full episode of almost total nothingness. It’s like John Woo got wind of how boring the thing was going to be, and jumped out of a helicopter to gee things up at the last minute. Now, you’re not going to stop watching after something like that, are you? You’re going to sit back in your sofa, stunned beyond all comprehension, and perhaps inspect your drink like a disbelieving vagrant in a 1930s cartoon.
Of course, by this point you’ve wised up to the formula. Anatomy of a Scandal is a bad Channel 5 courtroom drama enlivened by deeply stupid moments of heavy-handed fantasy sequences. So you scrub through the third episode just to see how it ends, and it ends with the camera spinning around while the Aimee Mann song from Magnolia plays. So you click “next episode” and immediately skip to the end and, like clockwork, Michelle Dockery is confronted by her younger self.
By this point, you no longer care about the plot of Anatomy of a Scandal. You’re just fast-forwarding through episodes to see what batshit moment of ill-fitting tonal weirdness is going to come next.
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