I’m also intrigued by the way she lovingly defends Charles when he isn’t in the room (like when she tries to dissuade Wilson from taking him out of Cambridge), but can’t express any of that same empathy when they’re actually together.

There are a few different versions of what exactly happened with Mountbatten and the meeting of intriguers (which, and the episode doesn’t bring this up, supposedly included a lot of people from MI5), but at least one such account does involve the Queen intervening to tell Mountbatten to knock it off. The show…

It’s a bit weird to me that the episode doesn’t even mention Alice’s risking her life to help refugees during the Holocaust, which is probably the thing brought up the most whenever she’s mentioned these days (beyond the basic fact of her being Philip’s mother).

This should be great to watch, but I’m also sad that they’re clearly rushing to do this for Alex while he still can.

But the Anthony Blunt scandal could have been an entire episode. I can scarce believe The Crown relegated it to “Oh and this happened”, most especially, with so many details only having been recently released. That scandal even impacted pop-culture with spies and secret agents becoming quite a favorite genre…

LBJ once physically seized the visiting Canadian prime minister by the lapels of his jacket and screamed in his face (after Pearson had supposedly voiced opposition to the war in Vietnam).

Jeremy Irons’ portrayal of Veidt is my only real issue with this show right now. I was willing to maybe write off the way he’s acting as the product of his isolation, but in the 1985 videotape he was behaving in the exact same way.  Veidt was a reserved, studious presence, not Irons’ borderline manic presence.

Whether or not it was a real person, the girl in the red coat was in the source book, Schindler’s Ark, it wasn’t something Spielberg made up for the film.  So it showing up here as something he put in a completely different film doesn’t really fit, for a super-nerdy nitpick.

The issue with what Atwood did was that she didn’t do anything with the whole ethnic-cleansing thing. It was just a way to explain why there weren’t any black people

I mean, the Marquis wasn’t an immigrant either, he was a foreign ally. Baron von Steuben would have been a better fit for that sentiment.

Right, I was thinking he’d done that too, but it was just Maximum Overdrive.  Same basic point, though; Garris working for TV was probably not the person to deliver a great adaptation.

I don’t think the King TV movie demonstrates anything beyond that King isn’t a good director.  There’s no reason that a more skilled one couldn’t have made a faithful adaptation work, just because that wasn’t what Kubrick was interested in doing.

Best was a real person.

A Marvelous Life leaves readers with the ultimate What If scenario: What If Lee had kept on collaborating with Kirby and Ditko?

Pitt’s scenes are taken pretty much word-for-word from Northup’s autobiography.

Russia’s return to villain status could not come soon enough for Hollywood.

A hot saint who now gets to live in a mansion instead of a trailer park.

I will never forgive this show for teasing the idea of Edgar taking off in a rocket and not following through. We were so close to having a live-action Leader of the Movementarians.

She already won an Emmy for playing Elizabeth I over a decade ago.

I’ve always been interested in how exactly Morgan envisions ending this show, since he’s talked about doing six seasons.  Unless the real world writes a natural stopping-point in the next year or two (which I consider unlikely; Her Majesty is probably going to live as long as her mother did at this rate), what’s the…