The Lady Review: Royal-Adjacent True Crime Drama Fails To Find Its Narrative Balance

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True-crime stories remain staggeringly popular. Royal scandals always sell. Why not fuse the two into one bite-sized, four-episode package? This reasoning, I imagine, is what seduced BritBox, ITV, and The Crown producers Left Bank Pictures into backing The Lady, which chronicles the Cinderella-like rise and violent fall of Jane Andrews (Agatha Christie's Seven Dials' Mia McKenna-Bruce), convicted of murdering her partner, Thomas Cressman (Ed Speleers), in the early 2000s.

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