I don’t know about the real-life Camilla, but the TV Camilla was a married woman who was in an open marriage but seeing an incredibly needy, emotionally immature married man who was in a closed marriage but not in a position to ever divorce. She should have called it off for everyone involved. As Dan Savage would say,…

I think the “friends speaking out” thing is more timing too. A lot of the players in the first two seasons and even the third to a point are dead. Michael Parker isn’t going to speak out because he’s been dead for 19 years. Churchill’s contemporaries are dead and most of his living family didn’t know him personally.…

I think it was suppose to collectively represent the IRA and not one person because the last scene is word for word the message the IRA sent.  Although my mind thought maybe Gerry Adams the leader of Sinn Fein who did publicly say Lord Mountbatten knew what he was getting into, people die because its a war.

Yeah, it seemed like the wanted it both ways, she’s the victim of a rich domineering grandmother but also a normal teenage girl in the 80's

Completely agree. This season really surprised me because it’s not shying away from showing the royals in a negative light. Season 3 did this a little bit, but the first 2 seasons were pretty firmly pro-monarchy. This season is much more critical (especially of Charles’ behavior, and of the way Elizabeth and Phillip…

Brits don’t really understand that Americans both love and do not care at all about the British monarchy.

I’m only on Episode 5 now, but so far this is the best episode of the season.

See, I disagree. I don’t think Charles came of well in this episode at all. I saw this episode as an inflection point, where now we start to see why the way that he was mistreated is now going to harm Diana.

(1) Historical note: the real meeting between Camilla and Diana over lunch happened post-wedding, and went great.

Not sure about the curtsy moment in particular, but from my knowledge Diana did have a hard time with all the royal protocols and traditions. Didn’t help that Charles was not interested in ushering her into that world (or being around at all — I do believe it’s true he left for 6 weeks before their wedding).

I think the choice to make the engagement and wedding so specifically through the lens of Dianas loneliness was a mistake. Generally, I don’t love when the show makes a huge cultural moment about just one character, but this time it felt more limited than usual. We’re here for the big moments, and seeing her walking…

Caroline definitely nails what aggravated me with this episode. There was far too little attention on just how culpable Prince Charles was to the entire Princess Di tragedy. The show always tries to paint the Royals as beholden to the entire theater of Monarchy and its “rules” but Charles clearly never felt all in on…

Yes! I’ve only seen clips here and there for years now, but so much of her interaction with guests appears to involve embarrassing them, startling them, pressing them on private matters, and otherwise making them uncomfortable.

Ellen rubbed me the wrong way when I saw how much joy she had getting jump scares on her show.

I haven’t seen too much of Ellen’s show, but by all accounts it sounds like she shows her true colors on the airwaves if you watch closely enough. Forcing a person to do shots says a lot about a person.

Well, any fears that I had that The Crown would be painting Thatcher in too sympathetic light were assuaged by this episode. I found myself literally yelling, “FUCK MARGARET THATCHER,” out loud alone in my apartment while watching this. (This is actually to Gillian Anderson’s credit in my opinion.)

One of my favourite contrasts between Thatcher and Elizabeth is how their respect marriages seem to function.

Every season I come down into the comment section to find people complaining that the show isn’t catering to their specific political priors and it always confuses me. You basically want a different type of show entirely.

The point of the show is not to validate it’s viewers politics or be a social commentary. The…

On another forum, someone noted the Mountbatten death sequence was quite Godfather-like. I can’t imagine that was an accident.

Umm... People have protested minorities being represented negatively as villains or token characters pretty much since Birth of a Nation. I think you’ll find most folks that visit this site agree that’s a negative thing. I’m not sure the point you think you’re making by saying that “you could say” black people being…