Is Anatomy of a Scandal Based on a True Story?

Politicians behaving badly. Marriages unraveling in the public eye. Allegations of the rich and powerful taking advantage of their privilege. These are the sorts of real-life situations that cable news networks can spin into days of programming—remember, if you can, Boris Johnson’s “partygate” scandal from just a few days back or the recent travails of Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whose wife’s taxes became the subject of international attention—but it turns out, they’re just as fascinating when they’re fictional. In the new series Anatomy of a Scandal, streaming now on Netflix, a rising-star politician named James Whitehouse (played… Read Full Article