"Brilliant" —The Boston Globe "Splendidly wicked" —The New York Times "Terrifically entertaining" —USA Today "Enticing" —The Wall Street Journal When the tabloids catch Conservative family-values politician Duncan Matlock (Trevor Eve, Waking the Dead) in an affair with an escort (Minnie Driver, Good Will Hunting), no one is more stunned than his devoted wife, Flora (Juliet Stevenson, The Hour, Bend It Like Beckham). Pressured by her husband, the party machinery, and even her father, Flora maintains a loyal façade at first. But in private, her anguish hardens into rage after erotic telephone tapes reveal the extent of Duncan"s duplicity. Best drama winner at the International Emmys® and the BAFTA awards, The Politician"s Wife is "one of the best dramas the Masterpiece Theatre series has ever produced" (The Boston Globe). Contains coarse language, nudity, and sexual violence