But Will There Be Corgis? Thread Where We Discuss Netflix's THE CROWN

Hope Lord Lucan turns up at some point.

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Surely there's room for John Bindon hanging beer glasses off his todger?

This is so much better than any other Netflix show

i think it will get continue to be good sadly

also it is not better than REINA DEL SUR, the one true queen imo

Season 2 run date: December 8th. VG will stock up on tea and blankets and take the entire weekend off.

seriously tho is this the season where they explore brenda’s origins as a 12ft baby-eating lizard person

They will never be bold enough to reveal that these people are all fucking worthless fascist scum and all deserve to die in a pile of their own excrement.

but no, they to live to be 200 with titanium hips and bairns blood transfusions from Africa.

Ah so that's how James Cameron is rebooting The Terminator.

Sorry, I will shut up for the benefit of fans of this series. But these fucking people ..

oh shit YES i cannot wait

and as I have expressed previously, i am an on-record royals-hater... BUT this show is v v good

On board

Nice interview with Foy (I like the bit about how she's changed up her hair now that she's done with the role). Some spoilers, sorta.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/nov/29/the-crowns-claire-foy-im-a-deeply-angry-person-on-some-levels

WATCH SEASON 2 NOW

not actually NOW but v soon yes

"traficante muy famosa", as lyndon larouche sees it

I kinda hate the fact that I am watching this but who am I kidding, I am going to watch every corgifucking second of it.

corgi... fucking?

dnw

I AM V EXCITE TO QUEEN THIS WEEKEND

o how i have missed Clare Foy’s microexpressions

matthew goode <3 ugh i love him

need to watch s2 e1 again as i was semi-distracted for much of it by xmas admin but *applause* for the toothy goblin they found to play small charles

otm

am halfway through ep 3, loving it

Lost track of what episode I'm up to now (I think maybe 5?) but anyway it's got Alex Jennings in it and once again he's superb in the douchebag role. Most punchable character since Joffrey Baratheon

"not that we give a fig about the parkers and their happiness"

as far as i know in 1957, this was euphemising "not that we give a damn" but i liked the anachronistic way this was delivered, strongly to suggest "not that we give a fuck" (don't think brits said this 50 years ago, even very posh ones)

enjoying the game-of=thrones style macmillan also

This phrase comes from the Spanish Fico (Fig) which gave its name to a traditional gesture of contempt made by placing the thumb between the first and second fingers. The gesture was common in Shakespeare's time and was known as The Fig of Spain. The modern-day equivalent is the V sign.

https://word-ancestry.livejournal.com/9243.html

1. (don’t) give a damn
-The above phrase was originally I don’t give a dam (yes, the n is missing on purpose) and seems to have been brought back to England by military men traveling to India in the mid 18th century. A dam was an Indian coin of little value. After spreading to civilian usage, the phrase changed to I don’t give a damn and was first recorded in America in the 1890s

^^^never knew this (if it's true)

loved the episode abt the Duke -irl pics of irl Duke at the end particularly delicious

very early cryptic mention of the "sinister osteopath" -- i'm guessing (as of e3) this is foreshadowing profumo and keeler etc

"had a bit of a fumble at blenheim -- actress you know, quite a looker!"

this whole exchange is tremendous

Anna Massey was never that good looking though.

When Grigg* was leaving Television House, after giving an interview on ITV defending his article, a member of the League of Empire Loyalists came up to him and slapped his face, saying: "Take that from the League of Empire Loyalists."

= Lord Altrincham, who'd criticised the Queen in the press, was the second lord to quit a hereditary peerage after Lord Stansgate (= Tony Benn, who was the first) made it possible in law, and eventually -- *sigh* -- ended up in the SDP (admittedly arriving from the Tory direction).

Anyway, TAKE THAT FROM THE LEAGUE OF EMPIRE LOYALISTS. (Wikip: "Indeed, it has also been argued that although parts of its ideology overlapped with fascism the LEL was in fact much too reactionary to be considered truly fascist.")

fun hearing an actor doing a young robin day -- not exactly a demanding piece of mimicry, but well managed

probably shouldn't actually liveblog this ep (half of you already know all this, it's spoilers for everyone else)

also enjoying what a monster they've made the queen mum

(of course grigg joined the SDP: his approach to the monarchy was very proto-blair)

foy gives great frosty

fun hearing an actor doing a young robin day -- not exactly a demanding piece of mimicry, but well managed

Why, if it isn't Bertie Carvel, bless him.

"also enjoying what a monster they've made the queen mum"

erm.. good work by the writers there. I'm just being a churl, tempted to start this tonight tbh.

Turkish websites are there for those of us who CBA with Netflix.

God save the torrent sitez! We need them for leeching from the parasitic overlords that make dramatic content about .. nevermind.

I like the rich period detail in this so far, it goes beyond budgets and eye candy - it is very artfully evocative in a way that many modern period dramas that have pissed away similar budgets are not imo. But saying that, some of the Eden administration stuff is a bit sketchy and undercooked, but I'd probably prefer a drama that concentrated wholly on that side of the story in the same fashion.

Matt Smith's performance in the scene where they celebrate Margaret's engagement is A+. I laughed out loud.

ok lol at the la ronde-style sequence of bed scenes and the UNEXPECTED REVEAL

love the way the private secretaries are required essentially to be MENTATS

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/48/PiterDeVries-Brad_Dourif.jpg

(lascelles is btw meant to be 73: he is looking VERY good on it)