The Crown - series 2 on Netflix

[southeastdweller]

Starts next Friday - anyone else excited?

Trailer here:

www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/the-crown-season-2-netflix-trailer-claire-foy-jfk-jackie-kennedy-release-date-a8040486.html

I'm so excited. Have the whole weekend set aside. I'm sad to see them go -- they've been so good and Queen and Phil. IT SOUNDS SO GOOD www.culturewhisper.com/r/tv/the_crown_season_2_review_netflix/8734

I’ll be giving myself a recap tonight as well of the last episode of season 1 - season 2 starts pretty much where season 1 ended.

Watching it now :)

Me too - just finished Episode 1

Good? I'm going to watch the last of series 1 tonight then series 2 at the weekend. I'm savouring it as I think there will be a gap before s3 as they haven't announced casting yet.

Watched the first two and found them both a bit dry. A lot of focus on the Suez drama and Philip’s five month Commonwealth trip.

Matt Smith as Phillip looks strikingly like Prince Harry!

Rhodiolia I thought Matt Smith looked like Prince Harry too.

I am so happy it's back. It's so beautiful to watch.

I can't wait to find out who they cast as Prince Phillip against Olivia Colman. I do think Claire Foy and Matt Smith have been excellent so they'll be difficult to replace.

DP is going out tonight but doesn't want me to watch the Crown on my own cos we said we were going to watch it together. That's going to be really hard, isn't it?

Hmm, what if you watch it again with him? My DH hates historical dramas so I can binge happily.

Jos, yes, I could watch it again. (DP is a she, as am I, which I think causes a greater overlap in telly preferences!). It's such amazing quality, it would easily stand up to re-watching. At the same time, I'm eyeing my enormous list of chores and thinking I could do them instead...

Matt Smith was interviewed and said he suspects someone has the part who is 'very hansome'. What about Pierce Brosnan?

Pierce is 64! Way too old for middle aged Philip in seasons 4 and 5.

Is he? He's ageing well! Back to square one then! They must be close to announcing the rest of the cast.

Rain oops, sorry! I hope the Crown won rather than your chores. It's as though you had to choose between being the Queen (duty) or Princess Margaret (fun!).

The more I watch The Crown, the more I realise I have the Queen's sense of duty and Margaret's bad choice in men.

I would love if David Tennant was Prince Phillip but think they might shy away from the Broadchurch comparisons. It's a shame because he has great chemistry with Colman, would keep the Doctor Who fan audience and he's already worked with Netflix on Jessica Jones.

I binge watched it yesterday, it was great. God I felt so sorry for Prince Charles. I seem to remember at the time William and Harry were being sent to Eton there was a lot of upset behind the scenes as Diana wanted them to go to a day school? I can see how from Charles' perspective sending them to Eton, where Windsor Castle is on the doorstep, was a great kindness.

It did lead to some fascinating trips into Wikipedia to look up some of the minor characters. Dorothy Macmillan, the wife of the PM, did indeed have a long standing affair with Robert Boothby. Her brother, the Duke of Devonshire appears to have been murdered by a Shipman style serial killer GP and it seems as if to avoid too much press attention for Dorothy, the police didn't investigate whether or not there was a murder. WTF.

tribpot I just read those Wiki pages too. Boothby's page was fascinating. He seems to have been friendly with the Krays and used gangsters to intimidate journalists into dropping unfavourable stories!

Yes, here's a story from the Independent in 1994 about Dorothy and Boothby. I hadn't realised he and Macmillan were MPs at the same time, Dorothy's brother-in-law was chief whip and so the Tory party was divided along family allegiances over it. Fascinating.

My overriding impression from the series was that the Queen absolutely deserved to be able to retire when she reached 60, what a life of opulent drudgery. And the reason she couldn't - as the King of Spain and the Queen of the Netherlands did recently - is because of Edward VIII. Now admittedly he did the country a massive favour by abdicating as he would have been a disaster as King (could we have ended up a republic after WW2 and the extent of his Nazi collaboration had become known? Or would he have been forced to appear more neutral had he still been the monarch?) but because of that crisis, abdication was unthinkable.

Does anyone else feel a bit of sympathy for Princess Margaret? I mean, she had every luxury in life, but she made some bad choices and I think she spent much of her life very unhappy.

However, she was clearly a good mother - her children seem very well-balanced, there's never been a hint of scandal about them, and they speak of her with genuine affection.

I LOVED it. Binged watched. I thought Claire Foy and Matt Smith outdid themselves with their performances. Their various discussions about their marriage were heartbreaking in lots of ways.

Although I like to think I'm quite up on history and general knowledge I found that I knew hardly anything about Prince Philip or his background. Really enlightening.

I do feel sorry for Princess Margaret - really she was born at the wrong time and needed to have been married off to some foreign king or Grand Duke, so that she could have been the Alpha Female of another kingdom. She definitely was not one for being second. Unfortunately at the time it was all a bit slim pickings. I still don't really understand why she didn't marry Peter Townsend, although whether he would have made her happy in the long run I don't know.

Thinking about it - maybe they’re delaying announcing the new Philip because it’s someone who’s currently in another series and they can’t reveal that he’s about to be killed off. Like eg Nikolaj Coster-Waldau from GOT (wishful thinking except that the timings still wouldn’t work and I don’t want them to kill Of Jaime).

So, it seems that Odo, who was last seen strolling into a swamp in DS9, has now been resurrected as Prince Philip. Is it just me that's disturbed by the resemblance?!