The limited series is structured around the trial of Major Charles Ingram (Matthew Macfadyen of Succession), his wife Diana (Sian Clifford of Fleabag), and another Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

As Smith puts it, their game show has the same appeal as a good pub quiz, something British people love because it involves “their two favorite things: drinking and being right.”.

Two people who love a good pub quiz are Diana Ingram and her brother Adrian Pollock (Trystan Gravelle), a semi-sketchy character who doesn’t have his life in the same proper order as his sister does?

But when a reluctant Charles is persuaded by his wife to give the game a go, and actually lands in the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

The Millionaire producers find reason to believe that the Ingrams, with an assist from Whittock, who is seated in the circle of potential next contestants as the Major plays, rigged the game in their favor.

(I’ll spare the details since, again, it’s best for you to hear or be refreshed on them while watching the series.) It’s also clear that in their zeal to launch Millionaire, the people behind it weren’t particularly rigorous in abiding by vetting and security protocols.

Quiz is a series about a game-show scandal, but it’s also a mystery, with a dash of Rashomon in its approach.

There are wry touches elsewhere, too, including a laugh-out-loud moment when one of the Millionaire producers, sure that Charles has no chance of winning, realizes she forgot to load glitter into the machine that’s supposed to dump it in the event of a million-pound winner.