Stonehouse review: Matthew Macfadyen is delectable in a real-life tragicomedy
Nothing quite so grisly drives the plot here; our pompous protagonist secures a spot in the 1964 Labour cabinet of Prime Minister Harold Wilson as Aviation Minister. Handsome, married with children, and relatively young, Stonehouse seems poised for a bright future in Parliament or perhaps even 10 Downing Street. However, in the first 10 minutes of episode one, the seed of his downfall is planted.
Greed, ambition, and a spoonful of lust are the basic—and mostly unexplored—ingredients of Stonehouse’s character. His lame attempts at espionage get Stonehouse disbarred from the Czech embassy, and the bills for his extravagant lifestyle start piling up. Soon, the only way out seems to be staging his death by drowning during a business trip to Miami, then laying low in Melbourne with an identity forged from the birth certificate of a deceased constituent.
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