This article container spoilers: we craved a delicious denouement; we got a disappointing dud befitting these times
I think, overall, we’ve only ourselves to blame. If 2020 has taught us nothing else, it is surely that things never turn out as well as you’d hope. Nevertheless we went straight ahead and invested our last remaining coins of hope and optimism in a shiny drama from HBO and Sky Atlantic.
For five weeks we tuned in to their six-part whodunnit in our increasing millions around the globe, turning the tale of the starry Manhattan couple Grace and Jonathan Fraser (Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant), whose lives come apart when he is arrested for the murder of his lover Elena, into an international hit.
