Netflix releases the Anatomy of a Scandal trailer as Sienna Miller warns it's "close to the bone".

The anticipation for the release of Anatomy of a Scandal has just intensified with the Netflix release of the trailer for the show.

To the dark strains of an Elephant Music mixed Heads May Roll, it builds to a startling climax of James Whitehouse (Rupert Friend) screaming his denial of rape, and features hints of Oxford debauchery as well as political posturing and the painful implosion of a marriage.

I think it’s utterly brilliant - and, three days in, it’s already had almost half a million views.

Privilege is about to be put on trial, it proclaims - while the poster for the show puns: “Not everyone is entitled to the truth.”

The theme of entitlement - which I, and the director SJ Clarkson, have been adamant is at the heart of the story - was flagged up by Sienna Miller at a Netflix event to showcase the streamer’s forthcoming highlights.

In quotes picked up by the Daily Telegraph, she said: “It deals with privilege in a way that we are seeing unravel daily in our Government. It really is very close to the bone. It’s art imitating life. It’s exciting. We do live in a country that’s not really a meritocracy a lot of the time; where if you had access to education of a certain standard and calibre, and go through the motions, you have aspirations of being in government. And we’re seeing it - they [members of the Government] are all friends.

“I mean, make up your own minds. Watch it and then read the newspapers and see what you think.”

She also spoke about how compulsive she found the script, and alluded to her experience of extreme media attention when her then partner Jude Law admitted to having an affair with his children’s nanny. “I got sent the script and all six episodes came through, which can be really overwhelming. I read the first one, then I couldn’t stop reading all of them. It felt instantly like something I’d want to make and something that people would really want to watch.

“I was excited to play somebody who deals with not dissimilar things that I very publicly dealt with and who responds in different ways.

“What would a [person’s] response be to some terrible behaviour? It felt meta and weird and uncomfortable.”