I don’t like shows with sexual perversion, but in this one the sexual perversion is just sort of outlandish and more gratuitous as the series progresses that it strikes me as similar to the evil that overtook Sodom and Gommorah. It’s sort of a symbol of the whole theme that “power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely”.
I didn’t feel contempt for Frank and Clair in the first series, but little by little, I have come to despise them and be repelled by their evil and manipulative ways. The writers and actors have done a superb job in showing how once evil gets the smallest handhold in a person’s heart, it eventually grows and takes over. Ruthless people become even more ruthless in their attempts to get their way and innocent people are left battered and broken by the wayside. Human life is not valued except as a rung on a ladder to be climbed.
The original British series was excellent.
I liked the original British series better. I do like the US version but in the second season there is a blatant lesbian sex scene and more. I stopped watching after that.
Also, in the real world the press would not unfortunately be trying to uncover a scandal if the party involved was democrat.