The Porchie This is Porchie, Elizabeth's lifelong friend and racing manager and -- the show implies -- potentially a person she ought to have married instead of Philip. His obit, in The Guardian, is quite interesting, and things don't always go well for him. (Fun fact: he was
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Between Margaret and Philip, Elizabeth dealt with a LOT of self-pitying whiners.
View GalleryThe Conclave We open with the Queen Mother having a bit of a wobble, as she's too upset to speak at the unveiling of George VI's statue. Margaret says she should do it, especially as she was, after all, his favorite. "What, you're
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In which Elizabeth finally grows a spine.
View GalleryThe War So, basically, I just liked this shot -- the planes! The blimps! The Windsor Castle tower! This is also as good a point as any to note that the entire world of The Crown is hazy. Inside. Outside. Everywhere is vaguely smoky. It nearly makes ME want to take
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Remember when the worst enemy of the state was, gasp, divorce? Margaret sure does.
View GalleryThe Props We open with a wonderfully tiny television set, which looks like the first Apple Macintosh, and must have seemed awfully high tech at the time. How did people LIVE (says the girl who had a Mac back then and thought it was the bee's knees). Elizabeth
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In which QE2 gets her coronation on.
View GalleryThe Child In keeping with the idea of this show being about The Crown, we continue to get a fair amount of flashbacks to Elizabeth and her father -- here, he's practicing for his coronation, and she is playing the archbishop -- and they've very affecting. Jared Harris&
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"Girl, please. The oozing syphilitic leg sores and wife-chopping ALONE."
View GalleryThe Strut Philip, it seems, has always wanted to learn to fly. Now that he's been given the honorarium of Air Commadore-in-Chief of the Air Training Corps -- a title, by the way, he ceded to Duchess Kate in 2015 -- he figures it's high time
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View the gallery A LOT to discuss here. This episode is primarily about Edward abdicating so that he could run off with Wallis Simpson -- which is extremely romantic until you start thinking about how that was kinda selfish and they were basically completely terrible people and suspected Nazi sympathetizers; the
View GalleryThe Abdication We open with a flashback to The Abdication, and it must be noted that although Wallis was a TERRIBLE PERSON who (amongst other awful awful, awful things) made British agents return to Nazi-occupied France during WWII to FETCH A SWIMSUIT SHE FORGOT TO PACK WHILST FLEEING, she
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View the gallery In which growing impatience with Churchill -- who believes England needs stout and experienced leadership, while his opponents seek more vitality in a leader -- is juxtaposed with that exact turnover happening in the monarchy. "Hyde Park Corner" is the code phrase for, "The King is
View GalleryThe Brown Curious what y'all think: Does it distract, or enhance, that Claire Foy is doing her best Elizabeth II impression? I know that in projects like this, impersonation IS part of it. But for some reason, the voice sorta jumps up and waves and is like, "
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