A Very English Scandal (2018)

Hugh Grant plays Jeremy Thorpe, leader of the Liberal Party from 1967, and Ben Whishaw is Norman Scott, the man who said they had been lovers and whom Thorpe spent years trying to silence. The plot against Scott ended with a hired gunman shooting Scott's Great Dane, Rinka, and the series plays the whole affair as the black farce it partly was, with Grant superb as charm curdling into menace. Thorpe was acquitted in June 1979, and the drama treats that verdict as an indictment of the establishment. Events are compressed, though Thorpe's successor David Steel called it reasonably accurate in most respects.