Finished the 2 part Savile documentary on Netflix. It’s quite thorough but although it wasn’t their job to ask the specific questions there still needs to be answers about how & why the police didn’t properly follow up the accusations as they appeared & particularly how W Yorks police were able to ignore requests from the Met to look into him. Indeed most of the senior officers in W Yorks appear to have been in his pocket. The closeness to Prince Charles & Margaret Thatcher was also alarming, the fact that he was their ‘go to’ to solve problems like raising funds for Stoke Mandeville & indeed advising the royals on how to engage with the public.
It’s still an extraordinary & horrific story despite the tangible good he did for certain causes. They conclude that he was driven to do the good deeds by his need to balance his bad deeds come judgement day. A creepy monster operating in plain sight.
He didn’t need to hide it. Everyone of his peers had their own skeletons and so did the people whose company he coveted. He would have taken a lot of people down with him and they knew it.
No one was innocent.
Just finished the last season of Killing Eve - that was terrible. Don’t think I’ve seen a show decline as markedly from season to season as that one.
Also saw The Responder - bit 2nd rate in places with some of the plots, but the concept (exploring the mental health and struggles of a police responder) was novel and a good one I thought.
