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

Dying at "lad it up with the beardos," thanks VG.

This season weirdly obsessed with facial hair and its discontents

i just looked this up and as well as duke of edinburgh he is apparently BARON GREENWICH

The Evil Baron Greenwich.

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the motivation of Snowdon marrying Margaret boiling down to “NOW look at me Mummy” meanwhile Mum’s all “sure” explains a lot about how that marriage played out - shit turned real nasty between him & Margaret after a while

i read years ago that he would slip “I hate you” notes in books she was reading

magz on the rebound from pete townshend not helping

foy and kirby are good as sisters, with this confrontation particularly strong: e2r powerless to get margaret to see past the good sex to the likely problem and margaret chilling on e2r's decision to be invisible in plain sight

magz on the rebound from pete townshend not helping

Snowden was a substitute for another guy.

tommy* can you hear me

*lascelles

yeah Foy & Kirby are killing it
you can almost see the miasma of unspoken ~feelings~ hanging over their heads whenever they are in a scene together, such great performances

*tiny little b&w TV fuzzes up*
*queen mum jumps up and bangs it vigorously on the side*
e2r: "no! mummy! it's RENTED!"

POTUS DEXTER :D

could just be the presence of qyburn making me think this but this ep is the most GoT to date

"it's just air!"

and here's the sinister osteopath >:)

Dexter's accent is inexplicably bad. Dude there are lots of tapes and films of Kennedy speaking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhHUbAPQ47E

good god President Dexter was hilariously awful

JFK trolling, more like a young Mayor Quimby
the only thing decent was his teeth and even then he barely had a good smile! and since when was he dark haired?

and poor Jackie had some thirsty, dollar-store looking hair

wow, Micheal C Hall is so bad he should be cast-rationed. Lol xps! at least he nailed Quimby. But It is a very jarring performance to say the fucking least. Ep 8 never recovered from that awfulness at all.

yeah like when JFK is assassinated in-show you’re like O THANK GOD the less we see of him the better

i did really love the final moment between Lizzie & Jackie though, and her mixed regrets over maintaining the high ground. idk, just in terms of succesful women navigating each other & the complexities that insecuruty brings

and claire foy, man when she hears the insults firsthand and her eyes fill with tears but she doesn’t buckle. killed me.

i never thought anything about Charles could reduce me to tears but here I am, end of ep 9, blubbering like a baby. god that was a hellish, troubling story. for both Phillip & Charles!

Welp, all done

Standing ovation, jolly good show old chaps.

Complexity in spades! jfc

Aw, I'll miss Foy 'n' Smith's knockabout antics. Will also particularly miss Vanessa Kirby.

They made bolder storytelling moves in the second season - starting in the middle of something then backing up several months, interleaving flashbacks, etc.

i never thought I'd lust after princess margaret but here i am

do you think william and kate and harry and megan sit around and watch this show and howl with laughter?

i wonder that too!

whole family sits in front of the telly like bacon's screaming pope iirc

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I kept getting distracted by how much Claire Foy looks like Parker Posey in this.

Who's next to play Philip? Capaldi?

i love this show but the jfk/jackie o episode was maybe the worst one of all. i like michael c hall but his jfk was awful and his performance was just weird, and the jackie o performance was bizarre too, and she confessed all of their intimate secrets to elizabeth at like their second meeting ever???

So many things about that ep made exactly no sense. Both Kennedys were socially savvy and well-prepared by staff; they would not have Billy-Bobbed into the palace and started talking about their bowels.

I mean, if the point you want to make is "Americans are brash and informal while Britishes are polite and reserved," there's like a zillion other examples you could use.

LBJ probably woulda wiped his ass with a corgi and called Nehru "boy."

^ good ep idea for next season btw

Also "Americans are brash and informal while Britishes are polite and reserved" is a really lazy point btw

We're looking for something to binge. Watched the first three episodes of the first season - does it stay that good?

Yes. If anything, it gets better.

Definitely better. The swanky Margaret stuff is way more fun than Churchill in the fog, for instance.

agreed on that point, yes.

really curious to see what the next season of this is going to be like with different actors.

Well, except for the inbred parasite part. https://t.co/dYZxPc6tx1

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) January 16, 2018

also parasitic freeloaders freeholders is another good reason to see if the remains of L Mountbatten's skull would make a good dog frisbee.

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are there any corgis in that y/n

p sure n

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV6RicRcjW0

this is going to be sensational, maybe use the same actors when this gets to s09.

And we have the new Prince Philip:

#TheCrown Sets Tobias Menzies as Prince Philip https://t.co/me9GCN2awV pic.twitter.com/31FyMDHoQ0

— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) March 28, 2018

Hmm. He's got the look but I've never seen him act as well as Foy, Smith or Olivia Colman.

Hey so when will Margaret find out about Tony's polio leg?

Menzies was good in Casino Royale, and he was a+ in HBO’s Rome. I approve of the casting

He was really good in a dual role on Outlander. He'll do fine.