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    MikeDGwen Ihnat
    12/08/17 12:19am

    Another site recently quipped that this show was a nostalgic fantasy about benevolent authoritarian rule. At their heart monarchies are criminal enterprises. The English monarchs looted and enslaved India, they did their best to loot America, they committed atrocities of the worst sort in Asia and Africa.

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      BarbaraMikeD
      12/10/17 2:22pm

      It’s a form of government. Democracies are equally capable of despoiliation.

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    awaltzforziziGwen Ihnat
    12/07/17 12:32pm

    I’m a bit annoyed that this show took one of the longest-serving women around and dedicated most of their runtime to her asshole of a husband, whitewashing Churchill, and her shaky marriage. Any look at her personality is reduced to “well, she’s cold.” And now we’re getting more Phillip and his dickery? I couldn’t care less about royals but I think there’s merit to examining her life. Emphasis hers.

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      Moggettawaltzforzizi
      12/07/17 3:40pm

      It frustrated me how the show would constantly edge to the brink of something interesting but never do anything with it. Like seeing her deal with her lack of education and confront her mother was so cool. And then... nothing. Did she forgive? Did she continue her education? Did she continue to deal with the limits of her early education?

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    Yuri KropotkinGwen Ihnat
    12/07/17 1:11pm

    The show’s writers may well have gone too far by trying to tie Philip to a sex scandal that he probably had nothing to do with, but noting that they’ve been “called out by the Daily Mail” for it is not exactly the best way to support your argument. The Mail is one of the UK’s shittiest daily newspapers.

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      The New No. 2Yuri Kropotkin
      12/07/17 2:22pm

      It continues to be really weird that everyone talks about Philip’s infidelity as a near-certainty when in over 60 years, there’s never been any proof that he ever cheated.

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      Indigo BoomYuri Kropotkin
      12/09/17 6:53am

      Its not ‘London’s Daily Mail’ either, unfortunately its available across the UK.

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    TheRealMarthaJones3.0Gwen Ihnat
    12/07/17 1:39pm

    It’s a balance The Crown has always found: humanizing the young woman on the throne mainly by showing her hopeless devotion to the “wild spirit,” as her friend Porchie calls him here, that she married.

    I mean this is extremely debatable, in fact it was my biggest contention with season one. The writers never gave me one solid reason to root for Philip and Elizabeth. If you want to rip apart a marriage and expect me to care, you have to show that those two people love each other. Season one I’m not even sure Philip and Elizabeth like each other. And it doesn’t help that season one elizabeth is seemingly indifferent to everything, cold, and super boring.  

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    SanfrAndrewGwen Ihnat
    12/07/17 11:59am

    Please, please, stop saying “England” when you mean The United Kingdom.

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    Joseph FinnGwen Ihnat
    12/07/17 4:57pm

    It’s kind of a bummer that a series about one of the more fascinating periods of British history, the death the Empire and Britain figuring out what to do next along with the ‘60s cultural revolution, is focused on the least interesting part of it.

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    Meatwad of the New Jersey MeatwadsGwen Ihnat
    12/07/17 3:55pm

    What I gleaned from season 1 is that (1) Prince Phillip is a genuine asshole, and (2) Queen Elizabeth is not very smart.

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    rainbowdarkGwen Ihnat
    12/10/17 5:10am

    I HATE the Queen. What I like about this show is you can still hate the queen while enjoying the show.

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