Anatomy of a Scandal’s Final Line Achieves Greatness

Anatomy of a Scandal, the new Netflix legal thriller from David E. Kelley and Melissa James Gibson, is already a tonal grab bag before it arrives at its final line. Starring Michelle Dockery, Sienna Miller, and Rupert Friend, the limited series’ overall vibe is this: What if a very sad and twisty high-profile sexual-assault case were also sometimes an overblown anime battle?

Michelle Dockery plays Kate Woodcroft, an ambitious and determined prosecutor. She is making the case against James Whitehouse , a member of Parliament whose staffer has accused him of rape. Everyone around her keeps saying things like “I don’t know. This case is going to be difficult!” and “Are you sure this is the right course of action?” Kate Woodcroft looks at them with steely eyes and a deep, unshakable conviction. This guy? This guy sucks, and she’s going to nail him.

Yes, okay, the last line. We’re getting there. Now comes the most obvious and overdetermined, shocking twist in recent TV memory. We discover that, all this time, Kate Woodcroft — who has been full of unswerving, inexplicable conviction that Whitehouse is a Bad Dude — is actually Holly Berry. She changed her name after the rape but also, presumably, because her name was Holly Berry.

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