Amid a growing challenge to her power, Thatcher fights for her position. Charles grows more determined to separate from Diana as their marriage unravels.Amid a growing challenge to her power, Thatcher fights for her position. Charles grows more determined to separate from Diana as their marriage unravels.Amid a growing challenge to her power, Thatcher fights for her position. Charles grows more determined to separate from Diana as their marriage unravels.
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- TriviaJessica Hobbs received the 2021 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for this episode, and Peter Morgan received the 2021 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for this episode.
- GoofsWhen the Queen awards Mrs. Thatcher the Order of Merit, she takes it out of its presentation box, in which it is stored when not being worn, and puts the box on the coffee table. Mrs. Thatcher then leaves, without taking the box.
- Quotes
Prince Charles: I have done my best, my very best. And I am suffering.
Queen Elizabeth II: No, you are not suffering. We're all suffering, having to put up with this. Let me make something clear. When people look at you and Diana, they see two privileged young people, who through good fortune have ended up with everything one could dream of in life. No one, not a single breathing living soul anywhere, sees cause for suffering.
Prince Charles: They would if they knew.
Queen Elizabeth II: Knew what? They know that you betray your wife and make no attempt to hide it. They know that thanks to you, she has psychological problems and eats or doesn't eat, or whatever it is she does or doesn't do. They know that you are a spoilt, immature man, endlessly complaining unnecessarily, married to a spoilt, immature woman, endlessly complaining unnecessarily. And we are all heartily sick of it. All anyone wants is for the pair of you to pull yourselves together, stop making spectacles of yourselves, and make this marriage and your enormously privileged positions in life work.
Prince Charles: And if I want to separate...
Queen Elizabeth II: You will NOT separate or divorce or let the side down in any way and if one day, you'd expect to be king...
Prince Charles: I do.
Queen Elizabeth II: Then might I suggest you start to behave like one!
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Early on i thought Gillian Anderson's performance as Maggie Thatcher belonged on Splitting Image or SNL. But like Olivia Coleman, she improved as the performance developed from episode to episode and I thought she was quite good at the end, although I wasn't able to see her character in a sympathetic light, even n the finals scene where she graciously accepted the Order of Merit in private from the Queen. I wonder what she really thought of getting an award from someone she had clashed with?
The storytelling is great, especially in the editing which is brisk and telling. The production values and photography are first-class. It made me want to watch the previous seasons, especially 1 and 2 again and look forward to Season 5, when we'll have a whole new cast and even bigger events to deal with.
How true was it all? I have no idea. You'd have to be a fly on the wall to confirm most of what we see here. Was Prince Charles really that myopic and selfish? Was Diana really that childish? Was Prince Phillip really that knowing and sympathetic? I have no idea. But it's a great show.
- schappe1
- Nov 24, 2020
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- Runtime54 minutes
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