‘The Crown’ Demonizes Thatcher For Displaying The Queen’s Applauded Stiff Upper Lip

The Federalist ^ | December 4, 2020 | Jonathan S. Tobin

[BenLurkin]

Glad to see Gillian Anderson is till working, but she is only half as tall as Thatcher and only 1/1000th the human being.

[llevrok]

I watched this and then went to YouTube to see the actual Thatcher (to refresh my memory).

The portrait was cartoonish, at best, whereas the others in the series were quite believable caricatures

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Hardly suprising, showbiz luvvie scum hate conservatism and the ideology Thatcher represented, which is for the working class to aspire to personal advancement and self-reliance,

As opposed to the working class knowing their place, dependent on a state controlled by their intellectual ‘superiors’.

[j.havenfarm]

I usually don’t stick all the way through these long series. I watched a bunch at the beginning, and just resumed. Gillian Anderson! I wouldn’t have guessed it was her. She’s got the voice nailed, but beyond that the affect is so odd, almost like a victim of some early stage neurological condition. I’m watching the episode where she’s with the royals at Balmoral. They portray her as a bigger stiff than the Windsors. I don’t think it’s possible for anyone who’s still breathing to be a bigger stiff than they

[NotSoFreeStater]

My wife loves the show. I happened to walk in during the Fagan episode with the Queen and Thatcher. Sighed and walked out. Typical leftist slant against Thatcher.

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For a while in the 80s the Queen had a reputation as the "Anti-Thatcher," somebody who was "good" in all the ways Thatcher was "bad."

Whether it was intentional or not, it was clever triangulation. The Queen gained points with leftists who didn't like the monarchy, but lost none with conservatives who revered it. Win-Win for Liz.

[Rummyfan]

Thatcher is arguably the most consequential British leader since Winston Churchill and easily one of the most important women of the 20th century.

Undoubtedly.

I stumbled across The Iron Lady the other night and, not having seen it, I thought it would be a good watch. But, it concentrated on Mrs Thatcher's years out of office, slightly dotty, and very little of her rise in Parliament and her time as PM. What a disappointment. It should have been called The Addled Lady, no disparagement of Mrs Thatcher intended, only the flick.

[UB355]

We all seasons of the show.

[Rummyfan]

Even the one Hollywood film about her life, “The Iron Lady” starring Meryl Streep as Thatcher in 2011, chose to center on her last years when she suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, rather than to focus primarily on her unmatched achievements as a woman who broke a glass ceiling American politicians have yet to shatter, as well as become the longest-serving prime minister in modern British history.

Indeed. It wass a travesty.

It was hardly a surprise that Morgan’s show would follow this pattern by portraying Thatcher as a rigid ideologue, whose lack of empathy for the suffering of the British people would alienate her from the queen.

If conservatives are so mean and hard-hearted, how do the lefties think they get elected?!

[SpaceBar]

They got Charles down-pat. A weak pathetic schmuck.

[the OlLine Rebel]

They always want to tear down Thatcher. A woman who actually wielded power and did it well, as well as having a chemistry doctorate.

And build up a vacuous non-entity pretty girl as some kind of hero.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I thought it was an OK movie. A bit silly to use her aged years as the foundation for memories, but mostly I’d like to see more about her careers. There wasn’t actually that much to really know all she did.

And I wonder how much of that rioting was really going on. I know there was some, but the film made it out that police were constantly beating on MPPs who were just upset they couldn’t get money for nothing.

[skinndogNN]

The episode that I found the most enjoyable was the one where a common (somewhat crazy) man breaks into the Buckingham Palace, not once, but twice and the second time sat on the queens bed and had a scary, but normal conversation with her.

Sorry for the run-on.

Can you imagine something like that happening today?

[napscoordinator]

She was a bit goofy. She shows up early for dinner, wears very inappropriate clothes for shooting, and is a workaholic who really had no life. I was shocked at out of touch the woman was. It’s the queen for god sake.

[luvie]

I was very disappointed at how they depicted this “uncommon” woman in The Crown.

....and generally, I have enjoyed the series.

[luvie]

So true. He is truly a royal creep. All the in-breeding crept out in him. LOL!

[SpaceBar]

That actor who plays Charles (very talented) will pop up in some other role in the future and you will barely recognize him. The new crop to replace Hollywood.

[luvie]

I watched him in “The Durrell’s In Corfu” and he was great. Funny and talented!

[SpaceBar]

Netflix, despite the controversy of its politics, I believe is ushering in a new era of entertainment, not beholden to ego inflated Hollywood actors using up the bulk of the budget. I enjoy watching relative unknowns ply their craft without the political baggage we’ve grown accustomed to.