«Anatomy of a Scandal» is a British anthology drama streaming television miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Sarah Vaughan.
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- Anatomy of a Scandal is a British anthology drama streaming television miniseries .
- It was developed by David E. Kelley and Melissa James Gibson.
- The movie is based on the novel of the same name by Sarah Vaughan.
- The series consists of six episodes.
- It premiered on Netflix on 15 April 2022.
- Netflix had announced in May 2020 that they had greenlit the series, which David E. Kelley and Melissa James Gibson adapted from the Sarah Vaughan novel of the same name.
- S. J. Clarkson was set to direct all episodes of the series.
- In September, Sienna Miller, Michelle Dockery, and Rupert Friend were cast to star in the series.
- Naomi Scott would be added in December
- Also, Ben Radcliffe booked a recurring role in January 2021.
- Filming for the series began in October 2020 at Shepperton Studios.
- Filming also took place at St. George’s Hanover Square Primary School in Mayfair, London.
- Production took place in Oxford in February 2021
- The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 63% approval rating with an average rating of 5.9/10, based on 32 critic reviews.
- The website’s critics’ consensus reads, “Anatomy of a Scandal has the bones of a good David E. Kelley potboiler but lacks the connective tissue to really work, although the starry cast provides an intrigue all its own.”
- Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 51 out of 100 based on 18 critics, indicating “mixed or average reviews”.
- The fictitious “Libertines Club” to which James Whitehouse belonged whilst an Oxford student was based on the real Oxford “Bullingdon Club,” a drinking and dining club originally founded at Oxford as a hunting and cricket club in 1780.
- Jonathan Coy who plays a judge and Michelle Dockery who plays a lawyer were both in Downton Abbey. Dockery played the main character Lady Mary Crawley and Coy played the Crawley family’s lawyer in several episodes.
- Rupert Friend’s character James Whitehouse was in the fictitious Oxford “Libertines Club.” Friend’s feature debut was 2004’s “The Libertine.”
- A hidden spoiler in Episode 1 suggests that James is indeed the villain. When Sophie texts James from her iPhone, his responses are in green, meaning that he is not on an iPhone. Apple has a policy that it will not clear use of its iPhone in movies by the villain. This policy was first made public when “Knives Out.”
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