Roadkill: Helen McCrory on the Script
by Masterpiece PBS | YouTube | November 9, 2020
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VIDEO: Roadkill, Dangerous Games
Dangerous Games
by Masterpiece | PBS | November 9, 2020
Hugh Laurie and Helen McCrory discuss the complex relationship between Peter and Dawn, and the dangerous game they are playing.
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VIDEO: Roadkill Cast Discuss Their Characters
Hugh Laurie, Helen McCrory, and the Cast Describe the Characters They Bring to Life in Roadkill
by Masterpiece | PBS | November 9, 2020
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Hugh Laurie classes up political scandal in David Hare’s new drama, but maybe we’re too scarred to be thrilled
Corrupt politics, greedy public officials failing upward – it’s all so tiresome and depressing, isn’t it?
by Melanie McFarland | November 1, 2020 | Salon.com
“Roadkill,” the latest “Masterpiece” limited series from Oscar-nominated screenwriter and playwright David Hare, tests that theory with prismatic tag-along through the a rocky chapter in British government minister Peter Laurence’s career. Played with a rakish confidence by Hugh Laurie, we’re introduced to Peter as he’s walking out of court, victorious in libel case alleging that he lied about an attempt to use his office for financial gain.
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Roadkill: Hugh Laurie Plays a Politician Trying to Avoid Cancellation
A brash British populist dealing with a law suit, a love child, a mistress, and a suspicious PM
by Mike Hale | October 30, 2020 | New York Times
Need to lend some charm, suavity and wry humanity to an otherwise objectionable middle-aged British male? Hugh Laurie is your man, filling that neo-George Sanders role in characters both mildly vainglorious (the spaceship captain of “Avenue 5”) and utterly despicable (the arms dealer of “The Night Manager”).
His latest, in the BBC mini-series “Roadkill” (beginning Sunday on PBS’s “Masterpiece”), falls somewhere in between, and trying to guess exactly where is our primary sport across the show’s four episodes. Peter Laurence may be a well-meaning, if destructively narcissistic, politician with a libertarian bent; he may be a soulless monster who doesn’t care about the bodies he leaves behind, perhaps literally, as he claws his way up the government. Laurie’s guarded, superbly understated performance keeps alive to the last moment the possibility that either, or both, might be true.
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