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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[teaaet]

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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.

There's a simultaneous storyline being told of Sophie and her friend Holly during their first year at Oxford (or maybe Cambridge?). They are kind of friends, Sophie uses Holly as a confidante and study buddy but excludes her from her life and social activities because Holly is just a nerd. Sophie has an on/off relationship with James, who is a big whore on campus, and Holly has a huge crush on him. One night after he and his friends get into some drugs drama, he runs into Holly and rapes her. She's so devastated by the experience, never tells anyone, drops out of college and moves home. She then enrolls in another school and decides to pursue a law course instead of english, starts going by her middle name (Kate)... and you realize she is Michelle Dockery's Kate! So she's prosecuting her own unpunished rapist, for attacking another woman! Sophie recognizes Kate eventually after watching her so much in court. At the end, Kate's college best friend who is the only one who kind of knows tells Sophie that her husband raped Kate too and that's why Kate dropped out of Oxford and Sophie never saw her again.

The novel is written from three different perspectives (Holly/Kate, Sophie, James), to show the way rich white men get away with fucking everything.

[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]

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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!