To me, the most interesting aspect of this has been the coverage in the typical pro-Royal papers like the DM and the Telegraph.

Thanks!  Just wait until Episode 9 to read a rant instead of more collected thoughts.

The first Deadspin-level comment on this article. RIP.

Couldn’t disagree with you more on the episode - thought it was one of the weakest of the season, with a more-than-likely fictional midlife and spiritual crisis/revival for Philip turning into a largely irrelevant bottle episode. Incidentally, this is coming from someone who has had far better experiences with…

Personally, I think it would’ve been worth it to break the show’s recasting streak and have Jennings play the role in old-age makeup.

Which he failed at miserably since they were lifelong friends whose primary problem in a relationship was that they basically knew each other too well, were incompatible, and thus she declined his proposal. Funny how things work out.

His letters, etc. to family are full of what one of his sons’ biographers called sentiments that he was seemingly incapable of expressing in person.

This is the polar opposite of Coup, where since a good slug of this episode was based in fact it (mostly) works well.

You’re being generous. This is a terrible episode, and more proof The Crown does best when it stays relatively close to actual events.

I’m halfway through and this is by far the best episode of the season, which is consistent. When the show adapts real events like Charles going to Colditz-in-kilts-Gordonstoun and explains Philip’s development, it’s a compelling show, but when it puts fiction on the screen - among others, Profumo last season, The Coup…

While watching, I actually was thinking about Bonham Carter’s role in The King’s Speech largely because I was thinking how well got the brutal accent down, and then realized I’d heard her do it before.

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Yeah, the tendency for Midwesterners to wear shorts inside during the winter is certainly something that is a bit different.

Did your dad get back into chemical engineering after that? So many of the families running Vietnamese restaurants that I visited as a kid had startling stories if you actually bothered talking with them, with all sorts of folks with grad degrees who were now serving pho.

As an old, one of my favorite snarky activities when visiting LA many years back was to walk into various department stores and visit the sections marked cold weather/winter gear for a good laugh.

In the days when garment bags were still allowed in forward closets (which got cold during flights), smuggled in Calvados and a nice selection of Bries, Camemberts, and a few other soft cheeses I’d picked up in Normandy.

Actually, natural gas forced air heating is prevalent in large parts of Northern California, which IIRC is actually how PG&E got started a century and some change back with plentiful fields being close to San Francisco at the time. I vaguely remember that multiple lines breaking were one reason why the fires following…

I reluctantly added to Midway’s box office largely because I wanted to see if there was anything they did in the film that could possibly have any value in it.

I think this woman chef would have taken badass as a compliment.

Easily the best movie that I saw last year by far. Peter Jackson has a lot to answer for his misuse of technology in his other films, but this one makes up for many of his sins elsewhere. I strongly doubt there’s anybody else who could have harnessed what he did to create this masterpiece.