My mom and I are on the second season of The Crown, and I’m already super stoked about the later seasons because that’s when shit gets REALLY interesting in Elizabeth II’s reign. Not only do you have Princess Margaret’s life, but you also have the 80s and 90s where the reign has experienced some of its BIGGEST scandals, not least of all the fact that three of her children had very public and controversial divorces.
I’m not a fan of monarchies as institutions, but as a history buff, royalty almost never fails to entertain.
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(yes I’m bingewatching some more of The Crown) Actually the scene where Philip imagines his sister’s death is really well done and the Nazi funeral scene is really creepy and unsettling. I suppose I feel sorry for young Philip, I just… strongly dislike old Philip. (I’m not fond of Even Older, Still Alive Philip either, even though everyone else seems to be.)
s’interesting to look at this episode in the light of what’s been going on with the royal family in the past few years, Harry coming out about going off the rails after his mother’s death and seeing a therapist and eventually starting a mental health campaign. That would’ve made a really good coda to this episode actually.
GOD is there a worse man in The Crown than Philip. He’s married to a woman who inexplicably loves him and he cheats on her. He’s got kids and he’s a jerk to them. He’s got all the power and privilege a person could have AND he still gets to have have drinking parties with his mates all the time AND YET he just WILL NOT STOP BITCHING about how AWFUL it is to not be king and have to defer to his wife. Who is the queen? And who does all the actual work? SUCK IT THE HELL UP, Phil
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The acting and costuming and directing are all incredible, but there’s a little bit too much exposition in the dialogue, too many times when a character has something explained for them that they should already know just for the benefit of the audience. (You’d think the Queen would have known from childhood what a regnal name is.)
Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson are somewhat whitewashed, no mention is made at all about the pair of them probably being Nazi sympathizers. Prince Phillip is actually not whitewashed, the show makes it pretty clear that he was an obnoxious racist and total dick most of the time, which I believe he still is in fact…
I love how people keep referring to Elizabeth in-show as “a child” even though before she even became Queen she was a fully grown woman with two children. It doesn’t skimp on showing just how much sexism she faced even when she had a crown on her head.
One thing this show makes abundantly clear is that it sucks being a royal, and I agree to be honest. Sure, you have privilege and wealth and power (though really, not that much power) but in return you basically have no freedom whatsoever. You can’t marry who you want, you can’t dress how you want, you can’t say what you want if anyone is listening, you can barely do anything really. And you have to be smiling so frequently you need Botox injections just so you can keep doing it. (That was a particularly memorable scene. Wonder if it really happened.) I tell you, I don’t envy Kate Middleton and her kids, not one bit.
Every Time Prince Philip Is a Jerk in ‘The Crown’
ELIZABETH: so at the coronation, you’re going to need to kneel to proclaim your loyalty to me, the Queen
PHILIP: what. what. what. no. fuck that. you’re my wife. no. what? I don’t get it
ELIZABETH: because, it’s my coronation. And I’m the Queen
PHILIP: [bitterly] what kind of family is this? What kind of marriage?
ELIZABETH: It’s—It’s a marriage to the Queen of England. you know this, Philip
Well, he’s a jerk in reality too…
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