Buy it Now: The Crown Season 2So instead of following a single arc, The Crown kind of just wanders, peering in on Elizabeth and Philip¡¯s marriage in the first couple episodes, then spending some time with Margaret and her new beau, a dashing bisexual photographer played by Matthew Goode. (Christmas came early, kids.) The Kennedys even pop over for a visit in one cheesy but wholly satisfying episode. They¡¯re just wealthy house cats, batting around expensive balls, bumping up against the roiling mid-century before drowsily retiring to the palace. The Crown is a royalist soap opera that may be kind of irresponsible, here in fraught, fractious late 2017. (Of course, in The Crown¡¯s perverse and primly sociopathic logic, Elizabeth wins in the end when Jackie¡¯s
View moreBuy it Now: The Crown Season 1Edward, the Duke of Windsor (Alex Jennings) - who abdicated from the British throne in 1936 to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson - ruffles feathers when he arrives in London for the funeral of his brother. Unsurprisingly, he gets a frosty reception from his now estranged family, who are still angry for choosing his lover over them. Even though he doesn¡¯t get on with most of them, David - as he is known simply to his family - is on good terms with Elizabeth and offers her advice. He is outwardly kind towards her but is more cynical behind closed doors and constantly criticises the Royal Family for their ill treatment of him
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