If you’re stuck for something to watch this weekend, you may want to consider Scoop, Netflix’s attempt to dramatize the infamous 2019 Newsnight interview between Emily Maitlis and Prince Andrew. This isn’t because the film is good—we’ll get to that shortly—but because, God, who wouldn’t want to relive the infamous 2019 Newsnight interview between Emily Maitlis and Prince Andrew?
You remember the exchange, surely, for it represented perhaps the last moment of pure fun that humanity experienced before the pandemic hit. Dogged by rumors of a close association with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and accused of sexual assault by an under-age girl, Prince Andrew attempted to set the record straight with the interview. However, it went so badly that four days after it aired, Prince Andrew effectively found himself being fired from the royal family by his own mother.
