Starring Gillian Anderson, Rufus Sewell and Billie Piper, Scoop is a glimpse at the story behind Newsnight's infamous interview with Prince Andrew about Jeffrey Epstein.
If the recent, vaguely nauseating frenzy of speculation over the "disappearance" of Kate Middleton is anything to go by, the public still has an insatiable appetite for royal scandal — though it's hard to think of anyone with a more disproportionate ratio of fame to actual personality than the British monarchy.
"An hour of television can change everything," McAlister tells the duke's private secretary, Amanda Thirsk . "It's like magic."The backroom press manoeuvring makes for a curious glimpse at the stand-off between a team trained in outmoded PR manipulation and a TV producer with her finger planted firmly on the world's social media pulse.
Anderson is, as ever, all class. She adds warmth and humour to a study in hard-hitting career feminism that's also tinged with compromise and regret — she's troubled by her failure to press Bill Clinton on his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, who she feels she let down. At the same time, Scoop's extended re-creation of the interview — while expertly done — brings the film to the brink of redundancy, sidelining McAlister for what amounts to a very good piece of mimicry.
Such is the comfort of hindsight. And that's OK — that's entertainment. But with His Royal Highness largely bluffing and buying his way out of any real repercussions for his alleged misdeeds, you can't help but wish the movie had a little more bite, rather than luxuriating in a battle when the war rages on.
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