House of Maxwell: a shallow and ‘hopelessly muddled’ show

The ‘big takeaway’ from this BBC documentary is that the Maxwells were ‘bonkers’

Ghislaine Robert Maxwell and Elisabeth Maxwell
Ghislaine Robert Maxwell and Elisabeth Maxwell
(Image credit: Expectation/BBC)

If your “appetite for dysfunctional media dynasties” has not been sated by Succession, the BBC’s three-part documentary House of Maxwell should hit the spot, said Ed Power in The Irish Times. It follows the rise and fall of Robert Maxwell, who was born in poverty in what is now Ukraine, became Britain’s “most notorious press baron”, and fell to his death off his yacht in mysterious circumstances in 1991.

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