In praise of Hugh Grant’s mid-career character turn

Hugh Grant’s career is dead. Long live Hugh Grant’s career!

In recent years Hollywood has gifted us various mid-career revivals, which have become social media phenomena (and indeed legacy media phenomena). It’s now more than a decade since the McConnaissance was declared in, of all places, the edifying pages of the New Yorker. It’s been eight years since we were collectively inducted into the Dernaissance by Bi…