“The Crown” opens with a clever acknowledgment that time has passed for Queen Elizabeth II—and taken with it the Emmy-winning actress who played her in the Netflix drama’s first two seasons.
“The Crown” opens with a clever acknowledgment that time has passed forand taken with it the Emmy-winning actress who played her in the Netflix drama’s first two seasons.
There’s change as well in swinging 1960s Britain, where this season of “The Crown” begins with the Labour Party narrowly winning power and Harold Wilson installed as prime minister. Cold War rumors that Wilson is a Soviet spy are feverishly circulating, a reminder that the spread of dubious information predates the internet. When the allegation reaches the queen via Philip, she sensibly asks the source. His nonchalant reply: “Friends at the club.
The series artfully weaves together the political and personal. There’s a tender scene in which Elizabeth visits a frail Winston Churchill ; a wrenching disaster that tests the queen’s capacity to serve as comforter-in-chief, and a national economic crisis that gives second-fiddle Margaret a chance to shine.
Morgan said he’s become comfortable with dramatizing the famous, but admits that finding his approach to the modern genre wasn’t easy. His breakthrough came on “The Deal,” a British TV movie about Labour colleagues and rivals Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
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