Did you know that Norman Scott was married to Terry-Thomas's sister-in-law? Most people today will have only a fuzzy idea who Terry-Thomas was, just as they will be vague about the Jeremy Thorpe affair, but this revelation was perhaps the key moment in the second part of A Very English Scandal.
The drama comes over as farce, indeed black comedy, coming to a climax with the failed shooting on Exmoor. One didn't even feel sorry for the dog, Rinka, the one harmless and perhaps purely likeable character in the whole story.
