As to the 'why' of alternating storylines, the reviewer appears to have missed that this season is about slavery. Not 'indentured servitude', or 'illegal migrants', or 'teen prostitutes', but slaves.

Laurie Ann is clearly a bully. Now, being the youngest in a family of five, I know what it's like to be treated as being naieve. Add in a dimension of bullying, and I think Carson was behaving as one would. It's called 'learned helplessness.'

Did no one pick up on the fact that Eden was an unreliable narrator, and we're seeing the accounts as filtered via his perspective. The first sign of this is when he told Elizabeth that his Arabic wasn't very good.

I can't get why there's this confusion over Elizabeth's portrayal.

To be fair to Elizabeth, the spotlight is one of the trade-off benefits to her loss of autonomy. Margaret gets to return to her carefree life, so fails to appreciate the cost of Elizabeth's duties.

Just a point: While I enjoy these recaps, the author appears to have missed the meaning of the series title. Specifically, that the show is not about Elizabeth, but 'the Crown', used as an institution and not an object.

Power has its own gravity, and it's not so easy as a man-woman dynamic to explain the games being played in this episode. Remember how the foreign secretary insisted on Churchill repeating, in detailed phrases, how much he needed Eden's help, with all the official people listening in? That was similar to the dressing…

When I was a kid, I always felt bad that Philip wasn't a king — the logic being that the wife of a hereditary king was styled 'queen'. I didn't quite grasp the notion that kings outrank queens. I just figured everyone would know she was the boss.

What I found interesting was, after kneeling, Philip hunting for some sign of acknowledgement from his wife. But — as was evident throughout the ceremony — Elizabeth's strong emotions are held back, contained in the blank expression that is required of a monarch, as to symbolize steady, calm reserve, above that of…

About the 'fridging' — I don't think her death was a lever to push the man's (Churchill's) story forward, so much as a parallel of the general theme of the episode, which has to do with how we react to information, based on proximity.

I think Edward was treated with generosity, so far as the show goes. The man was deeply racist, pro-nazi, had a string of affairs with married women, and siphoned a fair bit of money during the brief time he was king. He was truly a dick.

I don't know if this has been mentioned, but Philip has a history of inappropriate jokes (it's been suggested he does this out of nervousness). That's what I thought was being highlighted, in his comments to the Kenyan veteran, and his remark about the 'nice hat'.

If a car has a switch you pull, to open the trunk, then all you have to do is look for the wire that leads from that to the trunk release, and give a good yank.

There seem to be a presumption that Bart's gonna get captured. From everything I've seen, I'm just looking forward to how she takes out an army with that rock.

I'm really hoping the dino suit comes back, and actually ends up saving the day. Phil 'Tandy' could really use the win.

Ooh…how about this: Melissa starts talking to Gail, but — due to her instability — no one believes her. Maybe Melissa hears her through a pipe or something, while hiding in the walls.

It's acceptable, provided one of the parties is aware of the recording. You can record your own conversations, and they could later be used as evidence. You can't leave a recording device in a room, record someone else's conversation, and be able to use that.

In Dante's hell, the fraudulent are below the murderous, because fraud requires one to use one's intellect, to form a plan.

Late to the game, but I'm just brushing through a marathon.