In May 1979, journalists crowded into a courtroom at London’s Old Bailey where the charismatic, progressive-minded and generally indomitable former leader of Britain’s Liberal Party, Jeremy Thorpe, was to be tried for conspiracy to murder his male lover.
By this point in his life this most confident of men wore an uncharacteristically grim look, and in addition hadn’t bothered to shave for his trial. And by this time, the third and final episode of “A Very English Scandal,” it’s possible to believe this character might...