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
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