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# Fug the Show: The Crown recap, season 1, episode 4, "Act of God"
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/fug-the-show-the-crown-recap-season-1-episode-4-act-of-god-11-2016/
- Published: 2016-11-16T17:00:33.000Z
- Updated: 2016-11-17T08:08:13.000Z
- Description: "Girl, please. The oozing syphilitic leg sores and wife-chopping ALONE."
- Author: Heather
- Tags: Fug The Show, The Crown, #wp, #wp-post, #hasslideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 07:49

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This episode uses a surprisingly little-known but devastating weather event, The Great Smog of 1952, to underscore the contrast inherent in Elizabeth simultaneously being told that a) she's God's chosen authority and footsoldier, a beacon to her people and their protector to boot; and b) she has no real power to DO anything for those people. Ruling doesn't mean governing -- not for her -- and the monarch is largely symbolic and impotent, which is complicated when you're pretty sure everyone else is cocking up the works.

I remember back when *The Day After Tomorrow* came out -- the action movie where the enemy is climate change, basically -- and my friends and I sarcastically called it *Help! It's The Weather!* That's basically Winston Churchill's attitude toward the Big Bad in this hour. The Smog was a tragic four or five days of thickly polluted air that the government woefully underestimated, and then under-reported when tallying the death toll at under 4,000\. That guess was in later years increased to 12,000, with exponentially more suffering lingering lung effects; on its 60th anniversary, [the *Daily Mail* (I KNOW) did a look back at it that's quite informative, with lots of photos](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2243732/Pea-souper-killed-12-000-So-black-screen-cinemas-So-suffocatingly-lethal-ran-coffins-How-Great-Smog-choked-London-60-years-ago-week.html?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io). *The Crown* seems to have beefed up the surrounding political infighting as a way of giving Queen Elizabeth her first private diplomatic challenge: get involved, or stay unbiased. The footage will make you want to go outside and take a deep breath, and I say that as someone who lives in LA, a city not unfamiliar with smoggy ickyness.

Buttocks count: 0\. Eye bangs: 1.