'A Very English Scandal' Is Veddy, Veddy Fun, Indeed
The stars of Paddington 2 (Ben Whishaw and Hugh Grant) reunite, under ... very different circumstances, for a 3-episode Amazon mini-series about a gay relationship that shocked the U.K. in the '70s.
"Are you ... my little bunny?"
It is impossible to convey, in paltry written English, the astonishing breadth of dark, rich, velvety plumminess with which Hugh Grant delivers that line in Amazon's gloriously fun 3-episode mini-series, A Very English Scandal.
It is plummier than an Argentinian Malbec. Plummier than the Williams family's icebox at midnight.
Put it this way: When you order moo shu pork, it comes on the side. Is how plummy.
It is the sound of privilege, distilled to its essence. Into that brief string of phonemes Grant deftly infuses centuries of British class hierarchy, blending notes of high camp with potent, pharmaceutical-grade smarm and a preening, self-congratulatory
