We watched episode 9 last night and I have just found this picture of IRL Margaret, which I feel needs to be shared.https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/5c/f6/9e/5cf69ef5597b7a7a7c2277313f793f78.jpg
― Madchen, Friday, 13 January 2017 15:40 (seven years ago) link
Has Anthony Armstrong-Jones showed up yet? He's dead now anyway.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Friday, 13 January 2017 15:50 (seven years ago) link
Nope, presumably he surfaces in the next season.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 January 2017 17:31 (seven years ago) link
This is pretty fun. Pip Torrens as Tommy Lascelles takes the cake, and looks so much like Dirk Bogarde it's scary.
― scattered, smothered, covered, diced and chunked (WilliamC), Tuesday, 28 February 2017 03:06 (seven years ago) link
really looking forward to series XXI of this, with claire foy in yards-deep wrinkly rubber make-up and a euro-flag hat first doing a reverse diana on the then-PM, then winking cheekily back at the PM's successor as he stands flanked by the wicker giants GOG and MAGOG, and the entire worshipful company of fully automated luxury communists
― mark s, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 13:08 (six years ago) link
I'm in.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 13:09 (six years ago) link
All hail (in season 3) Queen Olivia.
http://ew.com/tv/2017/10/26/the-crown-claire-foy-olivia-colman/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 October 2017 22:35 (six years ago) link
Claire Foy is a babe
― calstars, Thursday, 26 October 2017 22:56 (six years ago) link
I like the way they say "The Crown has found its new star," like they searched far and wide for Olivia Colman.
― trishyb, Thursday, 26 October 2017 23:53 (six years ago) link
i like her thoughshe will make a good, tired, really kind of fucking over this shit Lizzie
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 October 2017 00:06 (six years ago) link
Oh, me too! It's just that "finding" her is hardly the Scarlett O'Hara search, is all I meant.
She will be brilliant.
― trishyb, Friday, 27 October 2017 10:28 (six years ago) link
Looking forward to Mountbatten getting blown up.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Friday, 27 October 2017 10:45 (six years ago) link
So much money pumped into this overblown project, and there are hardly any decent story arcs!
― calzino, Friday, 27 October 2017 11:57 (six years ago) link
I hear there's a surprise main character death a few seasons down the line
― pulled pork state of mind (Noodle Vague), Friday, 27 October 2017 12:00 (six years ago) link
Hope Lord Lucan turns up at some point.
― nashwan, Friday, 27 October 2017 12:01 (six years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51RCFJ79K0L._SX258_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
― mark s, Friday, 27 October 2017 12:04 (six years ago) link
Surely there's room for John Bindon hanging beer glasses off his todger?
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Friday, 27 October 2017 12:05 (six years ago) link
This is so much better than any other Netflix show
― abcfsk, Friday, 27 October 2017 12:06 (six years ago) link
i think it will get continue to be good sadly
also it is not better than REINA DEL SUR, the one true queen imo
― mark s, Friday, 27 October 2017 12:08 (six years ago) link
Season 2 run date: December 8th. VG will stock up on tea and blankets and take the entire weekend off.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 November 2017 23:43 (six years ago) link
seriously tho is this the season where they explore brenda’s origins as a 12ft baby-eating lizard person
― hi i’m darren and i’m a bouncer from bendigo (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 30 November 2017 23:47 (six years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Thursday, 30 November 2017 23:54 (six years ago) link
but no, they to live to be 200 with titanium hips and bairns blood transfusions from Africa.
― calzino, Thursday, 30 November 2017 23:56 (six years ago) link
Ah so that's how James Cameron is rebooting The Terminator.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 December 2017 00:18 (six years ago) link
Sorry, I will shut up for the benefit of fans of this series. But these fucking people ..
― calzino, Friday, 1 December 2017 00:22 (six years ago) link
oh shit YES i cannot waitand as I have expressed previously, i am an on-record royals-hater... BUT this show is v v good
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 December 2017 00:24 (six years ago) link
On board
― calstars, Friday, 1 December 2017 00:39 (six years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 December 2017 00:41 (six years ago) link
WATCH SEASON 2 NOW
― mark s, Friday, 8 December 2017 21:52 (six years ago) link
not actually NOW but v soon yes
"traficante muy famosa", as lyndon larouche sees it
― mark s, Friday, 8 December 2017 21:55 (six years ago) link
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.
― didgeridon't (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 8 December 2017 22:24 (six years ago) link
corgi... fucking?
― straightedge is just volcel for vegans (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 9 December 2017 00:47 (six years ago) link
dnw
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 December 2017 00:54 (six years ago) link
I AM V EXCITE TO QUEEN THIS WEEKEND
o how i have missed Clare Foy’s microexpressions
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 December 2017 08:03 (six years ago) link
matthew goode <3 ugh i love him
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 December 2017 21:17 (six years ago) link
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
― mark s, Saturday, 9 December 2017 21:29 (six years ago) link
otm
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 December 2017 23:23 (six years ago) link
am halfway through ep 3, loving it
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 December 2017 23:24 (six years ago) link
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
― Windsor Davies, Saturday, 9 December 2017 23:37 (six years ago) link
"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)
― mark s, Sunday, 10 December 2017 20:31 (six years ago) link
enjoying the game-of=thrones style macmillan also
― mark s, Sunday, 10 December 2017 20:34 (six years ago) link
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.
― Number None, Sunday, 10 December 2017 20:45 (six years ago) link
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)
― mark s, Sunday, 10 December 2017 20:53 (six years ago) link
loved the episode abt the Duke -irl pics of irl Duke at the end particularly delicious
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 December 2017 23:46 (six years ago) link
very early cryptic mention of the "sinister osteopath" -- i'm guessing (as of e3) this is foreshadowing profumo and keeler etc
― mark s, Monday, 11 December 2017 12:02 (six years ago) link
"had a bit of a fumble at blenheim -- actress you know, quite a looker!"
this whole exchange is tremendous
― mark s, Monday, 11 December 2017 18:54 (six years ago) link
Anna Massey was never that good looking though.
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Monday, 11 December 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link
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.")
― mark s, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 16:54 (six years ago) link