We Drop in at Saltburn, Catch Up with Traylor, And a New Rich Guy Divorce Enters the Chat
PS: Shut up, Matt Lauer.
On Tuesday I wrote about the warm and wonderful holiday vibes of Hannah Waddingham’s Christmas special for Apple TV, so naturally, yesterday I kept up the festive good cheer by… watching a twisted two-hour psychosexual social drama with full frontal nudity and Richard E. Grant giggling about karaoke. Yep: We visited Saltburn.
Before we get into the actual details of Saltburn, and to give you time to decide whether you care about spoilers, let’s focus on that glorious old pile that plays Saltburn, a name that sounds like a tragic exfoliation accident and which is fortunately entirely fictional. The producers, among them Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap1, wanted to find a heretofore unused estate that wouldn’t pop people out of the story by making them wonder where they’d seen it before, which is no easy feat considering that Downton Abbey and The Crown alone have probably used a hefty number of the camera-ready mansions of England. Interestingly, a Vanity Fair piece said the contract stipulate…