145: Quiz and No Stone Unturned

The Blotter Presents

First-time guest and Best Evidence contributor Margaret Howie joined me to talk about Quiz, the miniseries about the UK Who Wants To Be A Millionaire scandal now airing on AMC. Is it as good for what it leaves out as what it puts in? Are there class issues at work that non-Brits can't get at? And how does Matthew MacFadyen manage to play Charles Ingram so neutrally?
Later, we talk about the great Alex Gibney's not AS great No Stone Unturned, a true-crime Troubles explainer that tackles the Loughinisland massacre in 1994. Gibney takes this one more personally than most; does that interfere with his usual "ear" for structure? Game-show process, overshadowing events, and six degrees of seventh-grade Sarah: it's The Blotter Presents, Episode 145.
SHOW NOTES

• Vulture's Quiz explainer
• The real WWTBAM episode on YouTube
• The official podcast
• "The Man Who Got No Whammies"
• No Stone Unturned on Amazon
• Owen Gleiberman on No Stone Unturned for Variety
• The Irish Passport podcast
• My review of Say Nothing
• Find Margaret Howie at the Public Intellectual podcast, and in her Three Weeks newsletter
• Best Evidence