I’d (fortunately) forgotten that one, although fortunately for both her and Jason Ralph, neither of them have.

more believable, in fact, than her dynamic with the adults in the film

Very good summary of Bedell Smith’s untangling of the mess, which is probably the best neutral representation we’ll get. I’ll repost the most important parts of what I’ve mentioned elsewhere as to why this season really bothers historians as well as the Firm.

everyone rushing to remind the general public that it’s not a documentary defend the atrocious choices by Morgan this season doth protest too much

Just from a due process perspective, he’s going to have a really tough time even if the facts somehow make this a meritorious case.

It seemed like they mentioned Britain’s massive unemployment rate in every episode Thatcher was in after the first

One other aspect that that episode very briefly touched on but I wish they’d done more with is that the disastrous schooling choice wasn’t just an attempt to turn Charles into something he wasn’t suited to be. It was also because Philip despised many members of the establishment manufactured by places like Eton and…

Absolutely. Terrific show that the BBC mismarketed as their answer to Mad Men, but it’s a vastly deeper show that got canceled far too soon. You can almost view it as a bit of a companion piece to the first couple seasons of the Crown since it tackles many of the aspects of postwar Britain that weren’t taking place in…

Something I’d also meant to mention in my long post: the other thing that came to mind last night was that after the way this season ended, I really don’t know how Morgan is going to be able to get from there to where I’d always assumed he was going, which was to have the characters roughly resemble their counterparts…

But we never get those moments out of Thatcher that shows just how someone that odd could hold on to Parliament for 11 years.

Up until this season Morgan has generally done a very good job going back and forth between not just truth and fiction but making the show watchable for two very different crowds: those that tuned in partially to gasp at the output of the 20 seamstresses who perfectly recreated Diana’s wedding dress (for all of maybe…

I’d recommend Sally Bedell Smith’s Prince Charles. Despite having occasionally moved in the periphery of their social circles, she pulls no punches when it comes to any of the Royal Family and her portrait of Charles is fair but far from flattering.

Have you seen him in Season 2 of The Hour? Because while I don’t think he’ll ever actually get to the pathetic levels that we’ve seen from O’Connor this season, in the midst of all sorts of accusations his character just sort of implodes from the alpha male he played in the first season.

It’d been a while, but last night, I rewatched The Queen for the first time in probably 5 years, possibly more. To an extent, that was deliberate; I’d forgotten a lot (like the stag until you brought it up in a review), but one thing that stuck in my mind was Mirren’s performance being so superb that I felt it’d be…

Unfortunately, the most interesting parts of “Avalanche” exist on the margins of an episode

Thanks for that; I’d not seen it. It’s telling when even the most republican paper in the UK starts having qualms about what Morgan is doing.

As I’ve said, I don’t have a huge objection to the presentation of the episode, although for slightly different reasons than you do.

Any sympathy one might have had for the Charles of the Wales episode is absolutely gone.

“The episode leaves it as an open question whether Elizabeth’s precedent-breaking critique was the right thing to do...”

I just finished Season 4.