I kept getting distracted by how much Claire Foy looks like Parker Posey in this.
― Leee. Earl Grey, hot. (Leee), Saturday, 30 December 2017 07:02 (six years ago) link
Who's next to play Philip? Capaldi?
― Leee. Earl Grey, hot. (Leee), Saturday, 30 December 2017 19:50 (six years ago) link
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???
― na (NA), Saturday, 30 December 2017 23:30 (six years ago) link
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."
― twas in the fleek midwinter (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 31 December 2017 14:50 (six years ago) link
^ 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
― twas in the fleek midwinter (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 31 December 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link
We're looking for something to binge. Watched the first three episodes of the first season - does it stay that good?
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 31 December 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link
Yes. If anything, it gets better.
― trishyb, Sunday, 31 December 2017 14:58 (six years ago) link
Definitely better. The swanky Margaret stuff is way more fun than Churchill in the fog, for instance.
― twas in the fleek midwinter (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 31 December 2017 15:38 (six years ago) link
agreed on that point, yes.
really curious to see what the next season of this is going to be like with different actors.
― akm, Monday, 1 January 2018 19:24 (six years ago) link
Well, except for the inbred parasite part. https://t.co/dYZxPc6tx1— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) January 16, 2018
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 January 2018 18:57 (six years ago) link
also parasitic freeloaders freeholders is another good reason to see if the remains of L Mountbatten's skull would make a good dog frisbee.
― calzino, Thursday, 18 January 2018 19:16 (six years ago) link
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/reviews-recommendations/unsane-steven-soderbergh-experiment-paranoia?utm_content=bufferd2cce&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
― calzino, Thursday, 15 February 2018 23:36 (six years ago) link
are there any corgis in that y/n
― I'm walking on Sondheim (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 16 February 2018 02:39 (six years ago) link
p sure n
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 16 February 2018 04:16 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV6RicRcjW0
this is going to be sensational, maybe use the same actors when this gets to s09.
― calzino, Friday, 23 March 2018 12:40 (six years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 22:02 (six years ago) link
Hmm. He's got the look but I've never seen him act as well as Foy, Smith or Olivia Colman.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 22:04 (six years ago) link
Hey so when will Margaret find out about Tony's polio leg?
― Ned Reggaeton (Leee), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 22:22 (six years ago) link
Menzies was good in Casino Royale, and he was a+ in HBO’s Rome. I approve of the casting
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 22:52 (six years ago) link
He was really good in a dual role on Outlander. He'll do fine.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 28 March 2018 23:06 (six years ago) link
I'm five episodes into this now (finished the coronation earlier today). Already missing Foy and Smith knowing that they won't be around in future seasons and I still have 15 episodes of them to get through.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 17 June 2018 23:03 (five years ago) link
stoked for the future trump episode(s), he will be CANCELLED
herself will be played by olivia de havllland (103 in july), philip will literally just be some bones they throw around the room
― mark s, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 12:14 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ECpV52ZUcAEp4Gp?format=jpg&name=medium
Charles Moore spokesman for the Royal Physiognomy Trust.
― calzino, Friday, 23 August 2019 15:56 (four years ago) link
footman, fetch me my callipers, i fear i see before me a skull of a distinctly suffragist shape
― lowkey goatsed on the styx (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 23 August 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
i mean to be fair to the lad he couldn’t look more like a sneering jackboot enthusiast if he tried https://secure.i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03460/charles-moore-marg_3460335b.jpg
― lowkey goatsed on the styx (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 23 August 2019 15:59 (four years ago) link
I look forward to future tech facial recognition software that can identity enemies of the people from basic physiognomy and target them for liquidation.
― calzino, Friday, 23 August 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
SOMEBODY is auditioning for the role of Professor Higgins in that pic
― Rumspringsteen (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 23 August 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
the queen has no face
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 August 2019 04:15 (four years ago) link
Queen Without a Face
― Rumspringsteen (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 25 August 2019 10:04 (four years ago) link
A few eps into the new season & so far so good!Corgis is first ep THERE WILL BE CORGIS
New Philip is the dude from The Terror & Rome, right? Eeerily spot on with his voice.
Colman great obv. HBC’s margaret i havent quite adjusted to, still feels like HBC in nice dresses so far.
Aberfan ep incredibly heartbreaking - I had never heard of it til today.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 November 2019 01:04 (four years ago) link
I've never seen The Crown so I don't know if this is just a sour whinge...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/17/the-crown-tv-brexit-britain
― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Monday, 18 November 2019 07:42 (four years ago) link
I have seen the show and that seems fair enough
― Number None, Monday, 18 November 2019 09:09 (four years ago) link
Although citing Colman in the The Favourite as an example of this kind of thing is pretty stupid
― Number None, Monday, 18 November 2019 09:11 (four years ago) link
it lost me at G Oldman's Churchill performance as "worthy of praise". I can't think of a more cringeworthy, self-indulgent performance that should have got much more derision than it did, and it wasn't like he was a consummate pro putting in a good shift in an extremely shite movie.
― calzino, Monday, 18 November 2019 09:37 (four years ago) link
Honestly, I think lumping The Crown in with Downton Abbey as a misty-eyed portrayal of a great British past just shows that the writer has not watched The Crown.
― trishyb, Monday, 18 November 2019 09:51 (four years ago) link
Like, maybe it's my Irish perspective, but storylines like Margaret charming the Johnsons in order to get a massive bailout for Britain do not make Britain or the royal family look good. They make everyone look craven and corrupt.
― trishyb, Monday, 18 November 2019 09:55 (four years ago) link
Playing Churchill is a green light for self-indulgent hamming for any actor tbf.
― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Monday, 18 November 2019 10:02 (four years ago) link
The Crown does a good job of mirroring the viewers prejudices. It can be pro or anti monarchy depending on what you look for in it. Take Phillips speech in ep2 about the impossibility of equality. You can hear Daily Mail readers nodding along while the rest of us are gratified that the sociopathy is laid bare. The cameras point of view in this is strikingly neutral.
― 29 facepalms, Monday, 18 November 2019 10:12 (four years ago) link
Yeah by all accounts Churchill himself spent most of his life "playing Churchill." And he was a consummate ham in the role.
― they see me lollin' (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 18 November 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
(Insert corny and trite ruminations on "aren't we all just playing the part of ourselves on this great stage of life" etc.)
― they see me lollin' (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 18 November 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
yes -- and i think it's a bit deeper even than this, as well, bcz the ones who say "let's party and fuck" (who are totally the ones who make sense, even more in the 60s than the 50s, are also the ones where it's obvious that they're doing nothing to justify the colossal privilege: elizabeth's determination is a double one, to prove she can be a satisfactory monarch even though she's a young girl with a very odd and inadequate education (except in the constitution), one that can match up to her dad, and victoria and the other semi-mythical elizabeth, but also to justify the privilege by an iron committment to a selfless version of the duty she owes and the role she must commit to (the dowdiness is an expression of this, like the other elizabeth's quasi-holy virginity)^^^which is a bonkers insupportable topsyturvy view, but without it, there's just nothing left to ground the wealth and the palaces, etc, as any kind of equitable settlement -- and that's where elizabeth is coming fromre the constitution: she refers to bagehot* when he comes into conversation as "badgett", but her teacher -- a professor with a northern accent, who drinks -- calls him "batshit"... which is not IMO an accident*(walter bagehot, the 19th centry theorist of the constitution and apologist for the victorian monarchy)― mark s, Thursday, November 17, 2016 6:49 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink
^^^which is a bonkers insupportable topsyturvy view, but without it, there's just nothing left to ground the wealth and the palaces, etc, as any kind of equitable settlement -- and that's where elizabeth is coming from
re the constitution: she refers to bagehot* when he comes into conversation as "badgett", but her teacher -- a professor with a northern accent, who drinks -- calls him "batshit"... which is not IMO an accident
*(walter bagehot, the 19th centry theorist of the constitution and apologist for the victorian monarchy)
― mark s, Thursday, November 17, 2016 6:49 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink
^^^mark s ("otm itt" ― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl)) correctly calling eiir's underbusing of andrew 3 yrs later imo
― mark s, Monday, 18 November 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
that guardian article is pretty lame. spretending to be some kind of deep dive into the Crown when it’s mosly generalised waffling and “down with that sort of thing” concern-trolling about...aristocracy period dramas as a whole? plus we’re pingponging from darkest hour to the favourite to the crown to downton AND to dunkirk? pick a lane, jesus
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 02:02 (four years ago) link
Finished S3
Final episode v moving, I do love the way they have written the sisterly aspects of the Queen & Margaret
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 24 November 2019 23:05 (four years ago) link
It's going to be very strange for people when Charles Dance gets blown up at the start of next season and they have no idea why because Northern Ireland has not been mentioned once so far.
― trishyb, Monday, 25 November 2019 01:26 (four years ago) link
maybe they'll introduce some heart of gold, but initially uncompromising Irish nationalist character (like the Welsh nationalist tutor to Charles) who learns to respect these parasitic nazis for what is inside them, rather than for what an absolute horror show they actually are. To make it less awkward when you see Dance/Mountbatten's earthly remains gloriously spraying all over the shop!
― calzino, Monday, 25 November 2019 01:53 (four years ago) link
Or does that actually make it more awkward? I've not really thought this post through tbh!
― calzino, Monday, 25 November 2019 02:00 (four years ago) link
yeah there’s def some holes that will need filling in before Dicky’s curtain call. It must be such a hard show to write, as far as balancing actual history & fictional personal lives & how much history to give & when to deploy what etc.i heard instead on 1 researcher they have a team of like 4 or 5. Plus the editing process apparently is very bloodthirtsy. Lots on the cutting room floor.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 November 2019 02:35 (four years ago) link
oh and idk if anyone cares but Princess Margaret was on an ep of Desert Island Discs back in the mid 80’shttps://youtu.be/Bi9FtwbU7m0(i havent listened yet tho)
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 November 2019 02:42 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
To be fair to them, I am learning loads about twentieth-century British history from the snippets presented in The Crine. I guess they only present the parts of history that affect the royals directly, which The Troubles probably did not until Mountbatten was killed.
― trishyb, Monday, 25 November 2019 10:46 (four years ago) link