The Crown- Netflix (**Spoilers**)

I watched it all for the first time this year, it was an an interesting forrest gump through British events. I think the series peaked in the earlier decades, though Mrs T was fun to watch. Will it run out of steam going forward? just everyone getting older

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Is it only going to cover up to 2000 or so ? thought I read that somewhere.

Peter Morgan, the show creator already released "The Queen" with Helen Mirren so he's unlikely to recover the same ground.

When you're sent to steal The Crown Jewels but miss entirely.

I am re watching season 1 . I much preferred Vanessa Kirby as Princess Margaret than HB Carter

Alex Jennings was brilliant in that role! Should have gotten an Emmy. Managed to be extremely smarmy and also elicit a tiny bit of sympathy.

I kinda thought a later start date given Queen Lizzy's recent demise

Seeing Dalton in the naval uniform really made me wish I had Barbara Brocolli's ear to pitch the idea of bringing him back for the next Bond movie... Logan showed how well the aged hero can work and there's so much opportunity with tie his Bond to the modern day (helping Russian officers to "defect" and his enlisting the help of the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan in The Living Daylights could both provide good threads to pull on in the modern era). People say the Bond movies area a relic of the cold war so why not let Bond be that - the septuagenarian relic from the past dragged out of retirement by some episode from his past.

Good idea, I always thought he was a great Bond and thought Alan Partridge was bang out of order for bringing up his Welshness.

They seem to be playing looser with history than previous seasons....and going very easy on Diana imo. Yes, they're showing her self-pity and mental health issues but while they've been showing Charles infidelity with Camilla and tampongate, Diana's affairs with Hewitt and James Gilbey (Squidgygate) seem to have been completely skipped over. Would have thought it to be a rather essential part of the story since Charles has always claimed those affairs were what ended the platonic nature of his relationship with Camilla during the early years of his marriage to Diana.

Odd that they changed the "annus horribilis" speech so much too... it's not as if creative license was needed for it when transcripts would be readily available... Margaret's rekindling with Peter Townsend made for good TV but again, her appearance on Dessert Island Discs happened in the early 80's rather than 91...

We're only up to episode 5 so far but I think it's clear they're going to try and insinuate there was something more to Philip's friendship with Penny Knatchbul than the avuncular relationship they showed in the second episode too.

Finished it. Pretty underwhelming series. Terrible casting, and maybe because it's more recent times, we can clearly see too many liberties taken with storylines and the truth(yes I realise it's not a factual documentary).

Underwhelming and although I though Elizabeth Debicki did Diana quite well I never warmed to the rest of the cast.

Additionally, and I admit my memory may be hazy, but was the official Hong Kong ceremony not held indoors and not out in the rain? If I'm correct it seems a pointless thing to change.

Plus the Queen telling off Yeltsin about the destruction of Ipatiev house is definitely in the department of never happened.

I do remember at the time that the issue of the Royal Yacht was a political hot potato and that the Queen had let it be known that she'd like a refit or replacement, so I can believe that the PM was involved, as he was with the Wales marriage.

John Major had an issue with the storyline that Charles came to him to ask that the PM encourage the Queen to abdicate. That was obvious nonsense.

In a case that truth is stranger than fiction, if it hadn't already been revealed that Martin Bashir faked bank statements to persuade Diana to do an interview we would have thought that plot point was too far fetched!

Got a smart TV and finally subscribed to Netflix. I'm incredulous at how stupid, snobby, selfish and frankly dysfunctional the Royal family are portrayed. They all win the Darwin award for cruelty and pomposity. The characters are well depicted with Helena Bonham Carter a particularly repulsive Princess Margaret and Olivia Coleman a bit over empathetic as the queen. They really stuck the knife into JFK and Jacqueline though !

Overall a good way to put down a wet January but it would turn you into a Republican if you are not one already.