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I enjoyed Netflix's Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story but I don't think it lives up to the title. Part 2 never really gets into that holistic discussion of how British culture and British institutions actively propped up and enabled Savile.On Internet Archive
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Part 1 sets this up by discussing his Royal connections and his friendship with Thatcher but his abuse in Part 2 is represented as something that he did behind closed doors not something that was actively enabled by people and institution's failures.Permalink On Internet Archive
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I keep coming back to The Indelicates' album, Juniverbrecher, which suggests that Savile was, in some sense, a manifestation of Britain's ugliness: a spirit of abuse summoned by Britain's love of a bully figure.Permalink On Internet Archive
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Because Britain (The Indelicates sing about England but I think it's a broader attitude that seeps into the other nations) loves a bully. We love a Thatcher, a Johnson, a Clarkson, a Madeley, a Fawlty, a Brent, a Cowell. We love to see other people being bullied (but not us!).Permalink On Internet Archive
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And I'd have loved to see the documentary discuss that British culture, to analyse Savile as a /British/ horror story as the title suggests, because abuse doesn't happen in a vacuum.Permalink On Internet Archive
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Cathy (@TownTattle) says a lot of this better than me in her review on Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/ozuab/film/jimmy-savile-a-british-horror-story-2022/Permalink On Internet Archive
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Some of the lyrics and spoken word prose from The Indelicates' Juniverbrecher that speak to what I'm trying to express:Permalink On Internet Archive
