The Hack ★★★½

This seven-part series, which tells the story of perhaps the biggest media scandal of the century , is eminently watchable and mostly compelling, but it suffers from a serious case of split personality that ultimately makes it a little hard to buy into.

If you watched just the first episode in isolation, you’d say this was an arch telling of the investigation by Nick Davies (David Tennant), a freelance investigative journalist working for The Guardian , into the way Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World employed private investigators to illegally hack the phones of thousands of people in the UK – celebrities, sports stars, politicians and regular folk – to generate scoops.

There are lots of jokes, fanciful sequences, raised eyebrows, and breaking of the fourth wall –

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