Savage House: “The more truthful we made it, the more honest it was — the more grotesque, sure, but also the funnier it was and the more timely it became.”

a vHopeful Conversation with writer director Peter Ganz about his Richard E. Grant, Claire Foy starring satire

In this episode of vHopeful Conversations, I sit down with writer-director Peter Glanz to talk about his bold new period satire Savage House, a 1715-set black comedy that uses wigs, corsets, and a pox-ridden elite household to mirror the madness of our own political moment. We dig into how January 6th and QAnon-era unrest pushed Peter toward a story of …