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If you were to drink a shot every time Prince Andrew, Duke of York (Michael Sheen), mentions he fought in the Falklands War in A Very Royal Scandal, you would be on your way to getting wasted by the end of the three-part limited series.
How Prince Andrew responds in the Prime Video drama to his connection to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and accusations made by Virginia Giuffre is informed by how he believes he should be treated as a member of the British royal family with military experience. “I don’t need your permission to do an interview, thank you very much. I fought in the f---ing Falklands,” Andrew yells in the first episode after his press secretary is vehemently against talking to the press. (“I am the second f---ing son of the f---ing sovereign” is his very Kendall Roy argument seconds before.)
Portraying events leading up to, during, and after the instantly infamous interview with Emily Maitlis on the BBC’s Newsnight in November 2019, the anthology series from the producers of A Very English Scandal and A Very British Scandal takes us behind closed doors with both Andrew and Emily Maitlis. While this isn’t the first adaptation of this seismic televised conversation (Netflix’s Scoop beat the series to the punch), it does boast Maitlis as an executive producer, and gave actress Ruth Wilson access to the woman she is portraying.
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