The way to watch Scoop is from behind your fingers. The Newsnight interview by Emily Maitlis of Prince Andrew was grisly to watch at the time and its repetition here by Netflix, even with Rufus Sewell as Andrew and Gillian Anderson as Emily Maitlis, is as terrible as it was then.
Do the Royals never learn that interviews, unless heavily curated and preferably policed by Alistair Campbell, are never a good idea? It was disastrous with Diana, disastrous with Charles (positively the only thing anyone remembers was the admission of adultery with Camilla) and it was calamitous with Andrew, a man who, given enough rope to hang himself, doesn’t hesitate for a second to tie a nice firm knot.
