> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # The Crown, Season 4, Episode 5, "Fagan" - URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/the-crown-season-4-episode-5-fagan/ - Published: 2020-11-30T15:45:00.000Z - Updated: 2020-11-29T23:46:14.000Z - Author: Jessica - Tags: #wp, #wp-gallery, #slideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 08:09 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bf/b9/bfb99790-924d-4e41-a7e6-5e3c6e04fe57/content/images/static-gofugyourself-com/uploads/2020/11/the-crown-recaps-season-four1-1606611815-scaled.jpg) First of all, Her Maj is bringing us some REAL Church Lady vibes with these glasses, which are also incredibly on-target for 1982\. There are some cute hipster girls in Brooklyn wearing these semi-ironically right now, also. I personally am too elderly to look cute in these; I just look dated. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/11/the-crown-recaps-season-four2-1606611829-scaled.jpg) I must say that the production and set designers on this team are extremely good at their jobs; the juxtaposition of Fagan's flat and the Palace is striking and stark. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/11/the-crown-recaps-season-four3-1606611843-scaled.jpg) There's some blah blah in this episode about whether or not the royal family is "too accessible" -- literally -- and it dovetails with them being forced to mingle with folks at a Buckingham Palace garden party, in a scene which also very cleverly juxtaposes with scenes of folks in line to get their unemployment benefits. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/11/the-crown-recaps-season-four4-1606611858-scaled.jpg) I assume this look on the Queen is based on a real one, but I haven't seen her holding a white purse in....well, actually, maybe my lifetime. Margaret, on the other hand, looks quite chic over there. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/11/the-crown-recaps-season-four5-1606611872-scaled.jpg) This was the little throwaway bits of Trooping the Colour, and I honestly don't think they're doing to film all this if they weren't actually going to do something more with it at SOME point. It's fine -- the Queen's attempted assassination can go in the file with Anne's attempted kidnapping. Parenthetically...this family had TERRIBLE security in the 80s, apparently. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/11/the-crown-recaps-season-four6-1606611886-scaled.jpg) PETER MORGAN TURN ON SOME LIGHTS CHALLENGE. Having said that, of course you sit on the throne if you happen to break into Buckingham Palace. I really enjoyed the bits of this episode where it seemed like someone could live secretly there, like a royal Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/11/the-crown-recaps-season-four7-1606611900-scaled.jpg) These men are bad at their jobs. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/11/the-crown-recaps-season-four8-1606611913-scaled.jpg) This was meant to be at Windsor Castle, and the Queen's redone the place. It looks very cozy! (And expensive.) ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/11/the-crown-recaps-season-four9-1606611927-scaled.jpg) I will say that while I had sympathy for Fagan as he was portrayed here, I REALLY had sympathy for his kids, whose father and step-father are wrestling while they're just trying to get their playground time in. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/11/the-crown-recaps-season-four10-1606611941-scaled.jpg) But Peter Morgan knows that what we're really all here for is hot Lampshade Action. This shot just screams, "right, but WHAT ABOUT THIS SCONCE!" ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/11/the-crown-recaps-season-four11-1606611954-scaled.jpg) "WHAT ABOUT THIS CHEEKY BEDSIDE LIGHT?" ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/11/the-crown-recaps-season-four12-1606611968-scaled.jpg) "What about THIS cheeky bedside light?!" It is pathological that a show that is so literally dim also features SO many lamps. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/11/the-crown-recaps-season-four13-1606611981-scaled.jpg) Maybe Her Majesty ought to keep a dagger under her pillow, as I believe rules did in ye olden times. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/11/the-crown-recaps-season-four14-1606611996-scaled.jpg) This scene, where Fagan and the Queen have a nice chat, is actually quite good and very well done on both actors parts and it is a shame that their faces are not that well-lit. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/11/the-crown-recaps-season-four15-1606612010-scaled.jpg) WHAT. IS. HAPPENING. WITH. THIS. WOMAN'S. WIG. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/11/the-crown-recaps-season-four18-1606612053-scaled.jpg) EXACTLY. [The Crown Would Like You To Know It Was Really Rather Easy to Break in to Buckingham Palace Back in the DayAlso, M. Thatcher's hair is terrifyingly full of secrets.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bf/b9/bfb99790-924d-4e41-a7e6-5e3c6e04fe57/content/images/static-gofugyourself-com/uploads/2020/11/the-crown-recaps-season-four1-1606611815-scaled.jpg)](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/the-crown-season-four-recap-fagan-11-2020/)