Attagirl,Lilibet! From the Kennedy assassination to the Profumo affair, Netflix goes bigger and better as it kicks off a truly historic second seriesWhen the dusty scrolls of television history are unfurled by future generations and all 60 episodes of The Crown promised to us are found to lie therein, and this one shall be known down the ages as The One With All the Shagging – and Suez.
We start this second series of creator and writer Peter Morgan’s masterpiece in 1956. Continuing the first series’ fragile blending of complementary private and public events,we find both the royal couple and Britain descending into war. The Queen has found a photograph of a young female dancer in the luggage Prince Philip is taking on his five-month tour of the Commonwealth and is alternately grief-stricken and incandescent with fury. (Claire Foy is brilliantly subtle at conveying the thoughts behind the monarchical mask with the most minor of quiverings and careful recompositions of her luminously compelling face.) Philip is unaware – he is Philip. Matt Smith will find his turn in the spotlight this series, but not fairly yet.
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Source: guardian.co.uk