The Crown - series 3

[southeastdweller]

I'm so looking forward to seeing this when it returns next Sunday!

I believe that's exactly what the DM are trying to insinuate with their latest article about CF and MS being such good friends...
Eek yes that was a bit of crystal ball gazing on my part!

Prince Philip especially and Charles made it

I wasn’t convinced by Olivia C unfortunately except when she said the scathing ‘no one’ line to Charles

Looking forward to Princess Di’s entry

Also the Aberfan episode was so sad

Overall I thought each was excellent. Especially Philip’s unhappiness

Great article about Princess Alice sheltering Jews in Athens (& hiding it from suspicious Nazi son-in-law )

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/dec/01/princess-alice--saved--my-famils-from-nazis-in-wartime-greece?

Shameless (or not so shamelessly) admitting I've binged the entire 3 series in little more than a week. I picked the first episode up a couple of years ago and never went back to to, but now, brilliant. I'm a mid 80s child but did know about Aberfan (no connection to wales either), but asked my mother (mid 50s) who can't really recall ever knowing about it.

Either way that episode really stuck with me and I shed a few tears.

I haven't been as keen on this series (3) as the other two, I much preferred Vanessa Kirby as Margaret and Tobias Menzies as Phillip. I suffer the same thing when I see OC (who is actually I am cousins fourth removed or something) and tend to just see her rather than the queen.

Unexpectedly I think I liked the conversations with the prime ministers the most of the series. The gentleness that Winston was portrayed in (especially the scene when they went to Downing Street) really made me well up.

Have a horrendous crush on Matthew Goode now too

I was disappointed overall. Didn't like OC or HB-C.
I hated the way they mucked about with the facts and made things up. Not sure why any of that was necessary.
It may be because I remember it so clearly. I was 16 when Aberfan happened and the royal documentary, moon landings, investiture were the summer we got married.

NigesFakeWalkingStick

Its strange that your mum doesn't remember the Aberfan disaster. I was born in the very late 50s and remember it. I was at a small village primary school in the Yorkshire Dales and remember us all walking down to the church every morning for about a week for a special services to pray for the children of Aberfan. There was a lot of talk and grown ups weeping as we were the same ages as the children who died.

@thenightsky sorry, I remember she said she recalled a mining accident but not the word Aberfan - my mistake!

I asked my parents and they did remember it

Bit late to this party, but I have watched 3 episodes of season 3 and am sacking it off. Do not like OC and HBC, at all, yes they look far too old for the roles and are crap actors compared to the previous 2, essentially. TM is doing a good job as Prince Phillip but the other 2, nah. OC is not a patch on Claire Foy and its ruined now. I will find something better to watch. shame as I loved the first 2 seasons

I’ve just finished series 3. I was a bit disappointed.

I found it a bit too exposition-heavy, which I hadn’t noticed before in the other series. ‘You look sad Pheelip.’
‘Yars, I thenk I’m hevving a mid-life crisis’
Kind of thing. No work for me to do.

I thought they whitewashed David. He wouldn’t have been that great a King, goosestepping up and down Buckingham Palace’s corridors.

I thought OC improved in the role as the Queen’s age caught up with her own. HBC kept reminding me of the Queen of Hearts from Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland.

And the fictionalising was a bit heavy. All in all, I felt like I was watching Downton Abbey at times. Not that I ever watched it.

Things I did like - Princess Ann is bloody brilliant. The new Queen Mother is far more convincing than Victoria Hamilton. And the Aberfan episode was superb.

Erin Doherty has been ignored by all the major TV awards bodies but I thought she was outstanding.

I really didnt like the episode about Camilla, made the RF look really bad, it was uncomfortable.

i think they should have stopped while they were ahead, after 2 series.

" made the RF look really bad, it was uncomfortable."

It was made up bollocks, wasn't it?

who knows ddl

I watched two episodes and gave up.

I enjoyed the first two seasons, but something doesn't feel quite right about this.

I like Olivia Coleman, but I don't think she is right for this role. She's too soft and normal somehow. I think Claire Foy really demonstrated the cold edge that the Queen has, whereas Olivia Coleman doesn't really.

I've abandoned this series. Olivia Colman, sadly, just couldn't pull it off. However what really annoyed me was the liberties taken with the facts. I know it's a drama but some stuff was just too far from the truth to be acceptable eg Margaret at the White House and Phillip attending the Aberfan funerals then telling her Maj about the singing.

I think this series was the weakest of the three so far. I felt there was more clunky exposition than what there was in the first two series's and like so many of us on here, I question some of the casting decisions, in particular HBC as Margaret. I never saw Margaret, only HBC. I wonder if the casting people were under pressure by Netflix to cast famous names to bring in more subscribers given the cost of making the show?

So glad to read these comments. I was late to the first two series and devoured them but am finding series 3 hard work.
Just in the episode with Princess Anne and Andrew Parker-Bowles- I didn't know they had dated

Apparently that's not in that past tense @RockingMyFiftiesNot

Finished series 3 last night. Still excellent tv - in particular the Aberfan episode which was brilliantly done - but I've not warmed to the new cast like I did the first one. Olivia Colman is such a good actress, but she is too animated and reactive for the Queen, IMO, Claire Foy really demonstrated the stillness she must have trained herself into in order to not react in multiple tricky situations.

I didn't like the line made by OC after she visited some Aberfan families about forcing herself to cry. No one knows whether the Queen's tears were genuine or not.Many, if not most, will think it is a fact that she forced herself to cry. Also the episode about Aberfan played down the involvement of Lord Snowdon in relief efforts. I remember reading a journalist saying he'd gone to interview a family and found Lord Snowdon in a tiny miner's home making everyone tea. He doesn't have the greatest image. It would have been nice if he'd got the credit he'd deserved in this episode.

Think OC is over rated and the Golden Globes confirmed that.
Josh is amazing as always and hopefully they'll be more of him in the next series, and he will get the recognition he deserves.