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‘Outrageous' Review: Frivolity and Fascism on BritBox
In as many episodes as there were Mitford sisters, the six-part 'Outrageous' tells a frivolous story about frivolous people who somehow made a mark on the world. What's missing here, along with an alibi, is the world.
It is a vastly underpopulated re-creation of England that rolls out before the children of Mr. and Mrs. David Freeman-Mitford—aka Baron Redesdale and his wife, Sydney (James Purefoy, Anna Chancellor)—girls who come of age on the eve of both World War II and their father's financial collapse. Why do they continue to hold a place in the imagination? The scandals. Also, a very loose genealogical connection to the Churchills. And the representation, concentrated into one old, privileged, very British collection of bluebloods, of a cross-section of the political corpus of 1930s Britain.
