‘The Crown’: when Thatcher ran over Diana | TV

The Crown is the winner of the Emmy, and not so much because its fourth season (the last one for now) is the best, but because of the accumulated merit of having hooked even the viewer who had no special interest in the soap operas of the royal families, not even the family real par excellence, the most mediatic in the world.

The fourth was to be the season of Diana Spencer, but the character has been overshadowed by an overwhelming Margaret Thatcher. Lady Di appears fragile, victim, abused; At times it moves, you have to feel sorry for it. The Iron Lady, however, irritates the viewer. And also to Elizabeth II (a Olivia Colman drier, more distant and professional than the young queen that Claire Foy embodied in previous installments, all innocence and candor).

The Emmy for the role of Gillian Anderson It has been controversial because the Thatcher we see in the Netflix series seems cruel and heartless all the time, almost inhuman. If the queen has turned cold, the Iron Lady is frigid. And at the same time volcanic, fighting, capable of winning any pulse, be it with Argentina, with the unions or with prisoners on hunger strike. Only when her son Mark gets lost in the Paris-Dakar is she vulnerable, and not too vulnerable. Of course, she believes in what she does: she is convinced that she has a historic mission that only she can fulfill. It was something like that. Thatcher gave way, along with Reagan, to a neoconservative cycle, or neoliberal, whose effects continue to this day, although the last crises of 2008 and 2020 have knocked down a good part of its dogmas.

Those who advocate an “unapologetic” right vindicate Thatcher despite the fact that she herself took care to clear up ambiguities when visit Pinochet in London in 1998. The so-called liberal titan linked his legend to that of the bloodthirsty tyrant. There are more contradictions than complexes.

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