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Airing in 2006, The Amazing Mrs Pritchard was an English political drama truncated abruptly by the economic downturn of that era. The story followed the titular Mrs Roz Pritchard, an erstwhile shop manager, who became Prime Minister almost by accident, after being thoroughly disillusioned by politics when a Labour and a Conservative candidate for her local MP get in a fistfight outside her market. "I could do better than you!" she exclaims, and does. Forming the Purple Alliance, she runs for MP herself, as a normal person fed up with obtuse politics and politicians. Naturally, for a main character at the beginning of their series, she is outrageously popular, and even becomes Prime Minister!However, in the background is her family, who don't take this sudden popularity so well. Her husband Ian has legal issues in his closet, which are disturbed by politicians sussing out Roz, her older daughter Emily is irresponsible and self-absorbed, and only her younger daughter Georgina supports her. |
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Darker and Edgier |
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Darker and Edgier: The last three episodes, relative to the first. |
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Title Drop: When Roz becomes PM. |
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Visual Pun: Invoked. Purple=red+blue. The Purple Alliance is made up of people from Labour (red) and Conservative (blue). |
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Wrong Genre Savvy |
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Wrong Genre Savvy: Miranda thinks she can intimidate a reporter. |
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May–December Romance |
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May–December Romance: Catherine and her speechwriter, Ben More like October and early June, as Thurber would say. |
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Aborted Arc: A plane has come down in a residential area, causing massive destruction and horrible injuries and deaths! Could it have been terrorists? Or idiotic legislation? Whatever shall we do?! ...nothing at all, apparently. Possibly excused by the cancellation. |
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Honor Before Reason |
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Honor Before Reason: Roz in the beginning |
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Time Skip |
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Timeskip: Twelve months go by between the first and last three episodes. |
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Fictional Political Party |
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Fictional Political Party: The Purple Alliance. |
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Lady Land |
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Lady Land: The Purple Alliance seems to be entirely female (at least at the parliamentary level.) Surprisingly little is made of this. |
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Political Cartoons |
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Political Cartoons: An amusing one of Catherine insulting Roz appears |
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Landslide Election |
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Landslide Election: Roz's election. It's such a landslide it borders on soft science fiction, as 54% of the vote for a non-established third party is ridiculously outlandish considering that out of all UK elections under universal suffrage, only once did the winner gain more than 50% of the vote, and that was in 1935. If such a result would be placed in an Alternate History work, it would immediately be laughed out of existence as the epitome of Alien Space Bats. |
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Spell My Name with a "The" |
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Spell My Name with a "The" |
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Treachery Cover-Up |
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Money-Laundering Cover Up: A very serious one keeps Ian's fraud from Roz. |
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Shout-Out |
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Shout-Out: Mrs. Pritchard's town "Eatanswill" is the fictional constituency where Mr. Pickwick goes to observe an election in The Pickwick Papers. |
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No Periods, Period |
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No Periods, Period: Averted in a plot point. Catherine mentions a late period, prompting her secretary to give her a pregnancy test. |
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Start My Own |
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Start My Own |
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No Party Given: Averted by giving Roz her own fictitious party. |
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20 Minutes into the Future |
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20 Minutes into the Future: post-timeskip |
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Easy Evangelism |
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Easy Evangelism: Suspiciously, absurdly easy, in fact. |
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