A 26 episode journey into the life of Christine Keeler
The season will be told in a non linear narrative, with different actors and actresses playing the characters in the Profumo affair at different points in their lives. In the end though, the story is all about Christine Keeler, going backwards and forwards in each episode to tell the story of the sexism levelled at one teenager for destroying the British government. It also examines how the media has portrayed her in popular culture, from the Spice Girls paying homage to her chair photo, to how she was reduced, in her own word, to a newspaper clipping, without being able to reclaim her story. It also, during the show’s Oppenheimer-esque framing, explains how Harvey Weinstein brought the US rights to distribute the 1989 Profumo Affair movie Scandal, when Miramax was still a new player in the Hollywood studio world. In the end, this season is about the rigid sexist thinking of the UK in the pre MeToo era, how Christine struggled to take back her narrative, and how she died 2 months after Harvey Weinstein was disgraced. This instalment of the UK scandal series adapts all 5 books Christine wrote in her lifetime about the scandal that brought her infamy, and puts you inside the disturbing mind of the original Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
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