BritBox's Stonehouse brings nothing new to the political drama, but does give Matthew Macfadyen a chance to shine. Our review:
Truth is always stranger than fiction, as they say, and BritBox seems well aware of it with their latest offering: Stonehouse, a political drama starring Matthew Macfadyen as a member of Parliament who faked his death in the 1970s to avoid being prosecuted for, among other things, bad business dealings and taking money from the Czech government to serve as a spy.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY One would assume that someone who goes through the motions of faking their own death to avoid criminal charges would be somewhat clever, but that certainly isn’t the case here. Stonehouse flourishes in its protagonist’s inability to be anything other than completely inept, with things quickly devolving as soon as the twenty-minute mark in the first episode.
Where it’s impossible to sympathize with Stonehouse, I found myself rooting for Barbara, and while I know Hawes and Macfadyen have been pleasantly married for almost twenty years in real life, I take great pleasure in Hawes’ performance as a woman so scorned that she’s often one wrong word from ripping her husband’s head off his shoulders entirely.
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