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

I'm going to watch another ep later because I want see who plays Willie Whitelaw!

calzino otm, I was expecting them to save dickie’s fate for at least a little later!

Charles Dance must’ve been costing a fortune or something

they should be more judicious with their timelining, they've completely bypassed punk and killed off one of the top actors in it. When G.O.T. killed off too many of the better actors it soon turned into unwatchable shite!

although to hell with the late 70's tbh

making the Thatchers into drab but sympathetically unpretentious characters, whilst getting sucked into the Balmoral freakshow was fun but problematic. Because we all know Thatcher was satan!

there is an appealing comical sort of chemistry between Anderson and the actor who plays Denis, but it annoys me because I end up feeling the need for self-flagellation for liking fictional versions of evil and bad people!

I’m 2 eps in and like it so far, Scully’s Thatcher is a bit .. distracting? it all feels a bit much idk thatcher never seemed much like an actual person irl though anyway and still doesnt here, honestly fine keeping it that way

Dennis is v lol

got a perverse glee from Margaret telling off Thatcher for sitting in Queen Vicky’s chair lol

Young Diana is quite uncanny at times

Denis T always seemed a bit like bit of a comic suburban caricature irl

lol at that angry class warrior M Thatcher, pwning the Queen by quoting chartist poetry!

Scriptwriters better have included the Lord Mountbatten shampoo joke or gtf.

I loved the sequence in S3 where he is butthurt after the Labour govt sacks him as chief of defence and he is getting embroiled in the military coup plot against Wilson and the Queen tells him to sit the fuck down, perhaps it was best he got his dandruff sorted - his character was becoming a bit stale!

i loved it when the Queen tells off old toffs, it’s always v good, Dickie no exception

Camilla v Diana lunch is very much my shit

making the Thatchers into drab but sympathetically unpretentious characters,

Strongly disagree on the idea that they are sympathetic. I think GA is coming across as completely unhinged, which is as it should be. During the Balmoral visit, I definitely hated all sides equally. I was a bit disappointed with how heavy-handedly they played compare and contrast between the Thatchers' visit and Diana's. Yes, yes, we get it. Although I did like the little detail of her telling Phil that she loves the country and then telling Camilla that she hates it.

yes that was v good

Tickled by what a piece of shit Mark Thatcher is

nose to tail

Andrew & Edward:

HEY GUYS WE’RE FINALLY IN IT
...
oh. huh.
WAIT THAT wasn’t—-ok nvm

i dont know if the “Edward was gifted a chilled bottle of white wine/piss by his classmates ” is true but the idea of it really gave me a happiness i never knew existed

Richard Roxburgh as Bob Hawke!
I’ll drink to that lovely bit of casting

was hoping for Ginger Spice as Fergie.

The flying paedo or piss-boy - choose your fighter!

the too on the nose to be true segment with Diane/Camilla going for a meal together at a restaurant called Ménage à Trois is actually 100% true - believe it or not.

It was really popular with Sloanes of a certain type because iirc it only served starters and puddings!

just absolutely ideal for people with eating disorders obv!

Between Diana moping about the place and Margaret's days stretching out like an empty void, you wonder why nobody in the royal family can read a book.

going in on this tonight STOKED FOR THE MAJNESS

tbh I thought the best ep in ages was the one about Fagan the palace intruder.

going in on this tonight STOKED FOR THE MAJNESS

Me too. Hoping for a corgi orgy

watching a couple of eps of ANCIENT ALIENS in studious preparation

xxpost yeah the Fagan episode was really good! and quite moving

also it contains on my fave kind of job-centre nostalgia, looking back to the days when you could still be a rude wiseacre to job centre staff without getting sanctioned!

only through episode 5 so far, but Scully as Thatcher is brutal, IMO.

Looking forward to Mountbatten getting blown up.

― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Friday, 27 October 2017 11:45 (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I hope they have someone tell the popular joke of the time, "Q: How do we know Mountbatten had dandruff? A: They found his Head & Shoulders washed up on the shore".

― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Monday, 25 November 2019 07:46 (eleven months ago) bookmarkflaglink

Scriptwriters better have included the Lord Mountbatten shampoo joke or gtf.

― Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Monday, 16 November 2020 00:28 (sixteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

:D

Only one episode in so far, but holy shit. While I've known, at least on a surface level, almost all of the historical events that have popped up in this show, I genuinely had no idea about Mountbatten's demise AT ALL. So that was genuinely shocking and not what I expected from the first episode.

In my defense I'm American and I hadn't yet turned three when he was assassinated.

first ep: early scene (backdrop = an ira speech intensifying the bloodshed) all the main characters in uniform as literal wizened puppet-monsters

enter scully's hair

Lord Mountbatten had a boat
Ee i ee i o

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this was the puppet i was put in mind of (not stupid spitting image garbage, fuck that)

my wife watches this so I caught a wee bit last night. thatcher being a class warrior at balmoral and in her cabinet shuffle: this all seems very ahistorical and wrong. thatcher, like heath, obviously petit-bourgeois, and this was a change for the tories who always had an inbred toff patrician at their helm before this period, but I don't really ever remember hearing anything about thatcher railing against the aristos, though I'm sure Dennis made an arsenal of himself in front of the royals

yeah when she was quoting chartist poetry at the Queen I was lolling. This represents a calming in me because a few years back I'd have been swearing and yelling blue murder at the tv.

Instead of some 19 year old squaddie from Castlemilk or some some guy on his way home from painting a fence at a British Army base, this was a rare instance of the IRA blowing up the right people

phil with enaged bared teeth in every scene now, charles turning into a woebegone goblin sculpted from a collapsing rotten pumpkin

enraged tho engaged also works

my wife watches this so I caught a wee bit last night. thatcher being a class warrior at balmoral and in her cabinet shuffle: this all seems very ahistorical and wrong. thatcher, like heath, obviously petit-bourgeois, and this was a change for the tories who always had an inbred toff patrician at their helm before this period, but I don't really ever remember hearing anything about thatcher railing against the aristos, though I'm sure Dennis made an arsenal of himself in front of the royals

Now look here, this revisionist take on Thatcher has already given rise to several Oscar/BAFTA winning performances, so it must be true.

it would have been news to Viscount "Everybody PM needs a Willie" Whitelaw that Thatcher's first cabinet bloodbath of wets was class warfare!

don't know if it has any historical sanction at all but i'm enjoying margaret's instant appalled dislike of -- and targeting of -- thatch, presumably partly to wind up her big sister

she digs up some interesting skeletons in the family closet in ep 7, which was quite unexpected.

if there was any doubt that the Queen Mother isn't Hitler, it all gets sorted in ep 7.