For Jane (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), the house is a place to escape a recent trauma. Hundreds of well-off, seemingly smart people are desperate to rent One Folgate Street – a soulless London grand design rented out by a cryptic landlord who has a list of 100 ridiculous stipulations for tenants such as “no books”. He has no option but to fight for his life – what will he lose in the process? PH When we left Gennaro Savastano (Salvatore Esposito), he was hiding in a bunker, with his dreams of civilian life in tatters as predators gathered round him. The fierce, visceral and compelling Neapolitan mob drama returns for its final season. A beautiful production with some ugly truths and plenty of raunch. In fact, it could be argued that the duke stealing and using his wife’s explicit, private photos against her in court was an early example of revenge porn. Following the duchess’s real-life divorce from the duke (an icky Paul Bettany who will make you wince), it cleverly unpicks the institutional misogyny of the time, which targeted Campbell for being a woman who enjoyed sex. Claire Foy is gleefully on-brand as Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll in this three-part drama from Sarah Phelps. Claire Foy and Paul Bettany in A Very British Scandal.
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