Anatomy of a Scandal | Official Trailer

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Based on the bestselling novel by Sarah Vaughan, “Anatomy of a Scandal” is an insightful and suspenseful series about privilege and sexual consent. From the creator of “Big Little Lies” and “The Undoing”, this six-part series stars Sienna Miller, Michelle Dockery, Rupert Friend, Naomi Scott and Josette Simon.

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has anyone read the book?

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[emmanium]

I'll watch this for my girl Michelle and that's it.

[insecuredesign]

The things we do for our faves lol

[emmanium]

yes lmao

[mistycreed]

Same lol

[hateistoodark]

Same
I need her to book a prestige cable drama or something

[fimh]

RIP her show i actually really liked but now cant think of the name of lol

[smilla_sini]

Yep, same

[teaaet]

she should be in this series a whole lot more than she's in the trailer... she's playing the main character. sienna's character is like a secondary lead in the novel.

[emmanium]

Okay, that's interesting; I haven't read the novel. Can you spoil me what happens?

[teaaet]

[Spoiler (click to open)]Michelle Dockery's character, Kate, is a successful prosecutor... she sees the rape case against James Whitehouse on the docket and decides to take it on (he raped the woman he was having an affair with). She prosecutes the shit out of him... loses at the end, but it's considered a win that a case against a successful politician who ~~allegedly raped his mistress got so far in court. His wife Sophie (Sienna Miller) is freaking out through the whole trial and finally realizes her husband might be a prick

[emmanium]

Oh, the plot actually sounds pretty intersting! And brutal, too, considering that's how it tends to be with men irl.

Thank you for the detailed reply, you def made me more keen to watch this and maybe even read the book, lol.

[teaaet]

haha sure. i didn't even realize i remembered it this clearly, it was a very compelling listen. i think you should try the audiobook if you're into those... and don't mind having the whole plot spoiled for you lol.

[emmanium]

Haha yeah, I don't really care about spoilers lol.

I'll look into the audiobook!

[teaaet]

[Spoiler (click to open)]

There's also a lot of introspection and social commentary by Kate, and a major moral dilemma of not revealing her relationship to James and Sophie (conflict of interest), which could compromise the trial and his potential conviction. She's this incredibly successful lawyer but takes the risk of being found out to have the opportunity to prosecute James herself.

Both James and Sophie have some character development but the novel is really about Kate, so this trailer built all around Sienna is deceiving. Hopefully that is intentional and Michelle Dockery will get to do all the powerful scenes in the book!