I think it gets stronger as it goes. The first episode is just setting the stage so I would try at least a few more before deciding.

Your lack of interest in a subject doesn’t make it bad TV. That said, the Crown is a political drama. Told from the perspective of the royal family, but in the context of the Crown in the British constitution. If you have no interest at all, it isn’t for you. But it’s a well-told, well-acted story.

The Crown is amazing TV and I’m taken aback by the ambivalence towards it.

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No thanks. We are quite happy remaining completely separate.

The This American Life episode on the Rabin assassination should be required listening.

There is a famous (and now old) Supreme Court of Canada case that accepted that expert evidence could be called as to why a woman did not flee when she perceived her life to be in danger in the context of a self-defence plea. My recollection is that the accused woman in Lavaller also shot her abuser from behind (the…

I got married without having a wedding (not an elopement - our parents and siblings were there) and it was cheap and also glorious.

I’m not big on policing language but the use of the word “seminal” feels weird in this piece.

I think it’s Martha Wainwright.