Posted on 01/05/2018 6:20:43 AM PST by Kaslin
I highly recommend this series. Can’t wait for Season 3
I don’t watch Netflix and have no use for it.
Truth or fake history, the series is not bad TV
Certainly better than anything running on the networks.
So far, although there is an adulterer, there are no queers
Dwelling in darkness dissuedes enlightenment
I highly recommend this series. Can’t wait for Season 3
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I loved every minute of it. It was riveting.
So much fake news in this tv show - Lord Snowdon a queen? Never heard that before! The Mountbatten family outright Nazis? Rumors, no proof. Prince Phillip a non-stop philanderer who was hooked up with Stephen Ward? The Ward story is a complete fabrication and it has never been proven that Phillip cheats. And Phillip is a man with a sense of humor as well as duty - not the whinging bore he’s presented to be by this low-grade Doctor Who actor.
The only good thing is the performance by Claire Foy.
The Crown is very well done. I am very surprised it was produced for Netflix. Netflix has some interesting story lines for their productions but often are crass and exploitative in sex, drugs and violence. Highly recommend The Crown. It is inspiring and amazing to see the queen rule firmly with self discipline. Though emotions are obviously there they do not rule. When there is a glimpse of emotion (passion) as expressed in the time she dispatched her uncle the Nazi loving former king, it’s a clean smack down and not slobbering in the gutter. Refreshing and better than most American TV.
Maybe the series is OK (I don’t have a working TV, I’ll have to catch it on DVD someday). But what about Fields’s comment on over-reaching populism? That seems to need a Barf Alert by itself if I’m reading it correctly.
Of course, I’m a guy who would not buy a Toyota while Martin Sheen was their spokesperson, so I really am hard-headed, just like my wife says. Still, an idea that is attractive to an airhead has to be looked at with some suspicion, I think.
Obama sponsored beauty contests, Obama wanted to be invited to the Royal Wedding?
Seems like the writer is projecting Trump Derangement Syndrome.
The second season has degenerated into a soft-core porn show, focusing heavily on the (dubious) sexual escapades of Princess Margaret, Prince Phillip, and anyone else with a zipper that can be undone.
If you’re looking for history, read a book. This is little more than ermine-clad tabloid scandal set against a posh backdrop.
I can’t comment on what you raise here. I don’t think the series absolutely claims that Philip cheated. He did have the appearance of doing some things.
The revelations about Edward and his wife are true I think. I think the soap opera life of Margaret portrayed was true.
Churchill by Lithgrow is superb.
I watched the episode last night of young Charles being bullied in school. He finally gets to go to Eton. The little guy buys his uniforms etc. Then, jack@ss Philip insists that he go to his school where he said his life there was great!
I don’t think any series, any high budget film or doc could recreate the real anguish that young Charles experienced there.
I love this series. As an American I have no idea how real it is. The segment of Jack and Jackie coming, and Billy Graham I think are true.
The series paints a really beautiful picture of Elizabeth and the Monarchy for us Americans. I’m told that Brits are waiting for the next season.
Love love love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great points and I agree. It’s challenging to watch this portrayal of Prince Phillip - I cringe every time they show a close up of his brooding face - it’s painful!
I’ve watched it more out of curiousity than anything, and in fact, I find the pace of it all to be quite dull. And why do they insist on looooooong draw out close ups of the ‘Queen’, are we supposed to count how many times she blinks??
If she were showing a change in expression to reflect a clue, I’d understand, but that is not what is shown.
You think the Kennedys were presented in correct fashion??? Faulty they may have been but to present them as Americans straight out of the Waldorf Salad episode of Fawlty Towers is another. And those actors were dreadful, truly dreadful. The actor playing Prince Philip is equally terrible. As I said, only Claire Foy manages to present a pretty, dignified Queenlike demeanor.
I will agree with those who think Lithgow was terrific as Churchill. He was; the first season was better than the 2nd.
“Nobody elected Queen Elizabeth”
Nobody voted for him either;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2c-X8HiBng
If you think of the casting as “likeable” vs “unlikeable” the producers are portraying the characters in this way, (IMO).
Elizabeth-The audience will love her. She’s smart, she witty, she street smart, she sexy, she’s pretty. In short, I think the whole series as the single most objective in making the viewer grow to love the Queen.
Philip-I find the man loathsome in some respects, who kinda comes around in the last episode, but overall, the audience is not going be overly fond of Philip.
King George-The audience will love the man.
Edward-Despicable along with his wife. The scenes where his own mother confronts him are powerful. Then the revelations of him in cahoots with the Nazis.
Margaret-I think the audience will feel sorry for her. I think practically every single scene has her holding a cigarette.
Young Charles-We feel sorry for the boy.
Queen Mother-The audience may tend to appreciate her.
Billy Graham-I think they depict the meeting very accurately.
Kennedys-I think Jackie is portrayed as the phony she was. Jack affable.
I love the series. How they are able to reproduce the era, and scenery etc is truly amazing. The attention to detail is really spectacular. Are you saying you hate it? Did you watch the all the episodes?
PS-What’s wrong with Fawlty Towers?
Nothing’s wrong with Fawlty Towers.
Favorite episode is the when the California couple, (he’s American not the wife), visits and wants fresh OJ and a Waldorf salad. Culminating in the end with the American rounding up everyone and asking if they’re satisfied.
That’s the episode I referenced.
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