Mr Bates vs The Post Office on ITV review: damning retelling of the real-life scandal is essential viewing
“Everyone thinks of the Post Office as warm and cuddly", one character in ITV's new four-parter Mr Bates vs The Post Office says. And yet... this drama, based on a shocking true story, gives the lie to that impression.
A damning and harrowing few hours, it relays the story the 20-year scandal of sub-postmasters who were wrongly prosecuted for theft, fraud and false accounting, after faults in the Post Office’s digital accounting system Horizon.
The problems were covered up and denied, and the blame laid at the door of innocent people, who were financially and emotionally ruined by an employer that was less about warm
