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- Episode aired Nov 15, 2020
- TV-MA
- 1h
While Margaret Thatcher struggles with the disappearance of her favorite child, Elizabeth reexamines her relationships with her four children.While Margaret Thatcher struggles with the disappearance of her favorite child, Elizabeth reexamines her relationships with her four children.While Margaret Thatcher struggles with the disappearance of her favorite child, Elizabeth reexamines her relationships with her four children.
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Did you know
- TriviaThe American actress to whom Queen Elizabeth and Prince Andrew are referring to in their lunch meeting is Koo Stark (born Kathleen Norris Stark), who dated Prince Andrew for eighteen months, from February 1981 until 1983, and also starred in the film Emily (1976). In 1997, Prince Andrew became the godfather of Stark's daughter.
- GoofsThe events of Mark Thatcher's disappearance and the Argentina landing on South Georgia are portrayed as happening at exactly the same time. This is wrong. Thatcher's disappearance happened in January 1982 (9th January to the 14th January). The Argentinian scrap metal workers did land on South Georgia and raise the Argentina flag as portrayed, but this didn't happen until March 19th 1982, two months after Mark Thatcher's disappearance.
- Quotes
Carol Thatcher: You disregard me. You overlook me. And you favor Mark.
Margaret Thatcher: Because he's stronger. Like my father was stronger. Yes. You are right. I did struggle with my mother, but it had nothing to do with her sex. It had to do with her weakness. I could not bear how she was prepared to just be a housewife.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards (2021)
Therefore, the stark difference in pacing leaves the episodes feeling noticeably less developed than before - which is a tremendous shame, because as I've already stated, the 80s arguably contained the highest concentration of defining moments since WW2 in our nation's past (Charles & Diana, Diana at the White House, the IRA, royal intrusion, miner's strike, recession, protests, the battle of Orgreave, gay rights, Hillsborough disaster, Dennis Nilsen, Pan Am Flight 103, the AIDS crisis, Falklands, Yorkshire Ripper etc.) & thus, although some of these events are included or referenced subtly, this decade deserved to have that richness reflected in full & far more detail - with the amount of time Peter Morgan invested in to their inclusion mirroring their significance. To do otherwise trivialises their importance - which should be accepted.
Unfortunately, that hasn't been the case & consequently, already, there's a growing list of important moments that have been ignored / skimmed over / left out entirely.
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- Runtime1 hour
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- 2.00 : 1