YMMV / Elizabeth R

• Funny Moments: Mostly due to some utterly perfect witty one-liners.
  • Catherine de Medici, whose son is wooing Elizabeth, is told Elizabeth considers herself married to England. "If she wants a baby she will have to be divorced!"
  • How Gifford introduces himself as the son of a Catholic family to Mary Queen of Scots. "I am a gentleman and love the Virgin Mary." It just sounds so awkward.
  • Hatton discussing Leicester's secret marriage: 'if I were him I'd take a long voyage' sussex: 'I hardly think his new wife would like that' 'oh if I were her, I'd go too'
  • Much of Michael Williams as the Duke of Alençon in épisode 3.
• Nightmare Fuel: Elizabeth's speech to Walsingham after the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, about how corpses decay after death and are eaten by insects. "Death is a fearful process," indeed.
• Retroactive Recognition: Richard Topcliffe from "Horrible Conspiracies" is played by Brian Wilde, who would later be best known for playing Mr. Barrowclough in Porridge and Foggy Dewhirst in Last of the Summer Wine.
• Special Effects Failure: The lady-in-waiting's smallpox scars are too obviously makeup.
• Squick: Everything the Queen's torture-master says to his victims is one part this, and one part Nightmare Fuel.

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