First-time guest and Best Evidence contributor Margaret Howie joined me to talk about Quiz, the miniseries about the UK Who Wants To Be A Millionaire scandal now airing on AMC. Is it as good for what it leaves out as what it puts in? Are there class issues at work that non-Brits can't get at? And how does Matthew MacFadyen manage to play Charles Ingram so neutrally?
Later, we talk about the great Alex Gibney's not AS great No Stone Unturned, a true-crime Troubles explainer that tackles the Loughinisland massacre in 1994. Gibney takes this one more personally than most; does that interfere with his usual "ear" for structure? Game-show process, overshadowing events, and six degrees of seventh-grade Sarah: it's The Blotter Presents, Episode 145.
SHOW NOTES
Vulture's Quiz explainerThe real WWTBAM episode on YouTubeThe official podcast"The Man Who Got No Whammies"No Stone Unturned on Amazon
Owen Gleiberman on No Stone Unturned for Variety The Irish Passport podcastMy review of Say NothingFind Margaret Howie at the Public Intellectual podcast, and in her Three Weeks newsletterBest Evidence