Two-thirds of the way through The Crown’s fourth season finale, Charles unknowingly echoes his father. Back in “Favou…
Early into “Avalanche,” Anne make an astute observation about Charles and Diana’s marriage: He acts older than his…
If you ever wanted to know what it would be like if Aaron Sorkin wrote The Crown, then boy do I have an episode for…
There’s something about Princess Margaret that inspires Peter Morgan to think outside the box. He uses her episodes…
The Crown has a natural tendency towards dourness. There are times when the show seems to suggest that the Windsors…
Some of the most compelling episodes of The Crown simply dramatize a historical event that feel almost too…
After the first season of The Crown casually elided a major character’s Nazi connections, season two had to spend an …
The world of Buckingham Palace is so unmoored from time that it’s easy to forget The Crown has covered over 30 years…
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The royals are a bunch of weirdos. That’s ostensibly the thesis of The Crown, but over the past three seasons we’ve…
The first season of The Crown debuted with a clear sense of purpose: To introduce us to the world of the Windsors…
One of the strangest things about The Crown’s third season is the way Helena Bonham Carter’s Margaret receded into…
About two-thirds of the way through “Imbroglio,” there’s a scene where Anne drives along singing to David Bowie’s …
For an episode that opens with a Nazi sympathizer coughing up blood into a toilet, “Dangling Man” turns out to be a…
“Moondust” seems like an episode specifically designed to send me into a Crown-related existential crisis. On the…
It’s wild to think about what it would be like for the royal family to watch The Crown, a show that digs into lives…
Given Peter Morgan’s clear interest in stories about men and all-male environments, it’s curious that he’s spent so…
Reading back over my reviews of the first two seasons of The Crown, I’m not sure I was ever quite able to…
The Crown’s boldest choice is its commitment to being a firmly episodic series. It’s a huge strength, one that makes…
Princess Margaret-centric episodes tend to bring out the best and worst of what The Crown can do. They’re fun,…