The Crown - Season 3

[Ken4155]

Noticed yesterday that this excellent series has returned so i watched 2 episodes last night and 2 more tonight. Have to say that it doesn't take too long before the different actors have bedded into their characters - though i much prefer the original Margaret to Ms Bonham-Carter. For any who will be watching, a little warning that Episode 3 is set in '64 and concerns the events around the Aberfan disaster. There are one or two harrowing scenes.

[emmie]

sadly i don;t have Netflix so can't watch it, would love it if the BBC one day in the future showed it. It sounds wonderful.

[MargoTester]

Emmie you can get series 1 & 2 on DVD for about £20 it's a really good watch

[emmie]

might do that, didn't realise that it would come out on dvd.

[MargoTester]

You get hooked, I had to 'ration' myself to 2 episodes per session.

[emmie]

i tend to binge watch something I like. Like the West Wing, that comes in 22 episodes each series, and 7 seasons, makes my eyes go after a time, but i still love it even now.

[shaneystar2]

emmie,you can get a free trial from Netflix for a month.All 3 seasons are on there.They send you reminder before the month is up so you can cancel it or keep it.You'll soon get through it if you're a binge watcher.
Ken ,I wasn't so keen on Helena Bonham Carter as Princess Margaret either but although she only had a small part, Geraldine Chaplin was really good as Wallis Simpson and Jason Watkins superb as Harold Wilson.

[Khandro]

It's very good, but as you move on ken, it gets difficult to understand that you are watching a fictitious account of the intimate lives of real people, I should think Her Majesty, like her great grandmother, is distinctly "not amused".

[Ken4155]

^
Yeah, it is somewhat difficult to understand when 'poetic licence' is being used. I haven't read anything regarding Elizabeth's jealousy of Margaret's 'freedom to enjoy life', nor Margaret's disappointment in not being given enough Royal Duties to undertake. Still, it is an excellent series and i actually suspect the the RF watch it and sometimes roll about the palace laughing at the various portrayals. I'll most probably squeeze another 2 or 3 episodes in tonight.

[Khandro]

There's some great lines in it, I liked the bit where the whole family were asked to watch television, which they don't, as a group ever do, This was to show how "real" the BBC programme would be. One of them (the queen mother?) says, "we're being filmed watching rubbish on the television so people can watch us on the television; - we are now plumbing new depths of banality!" Ha-Ha.

[Khandro]

We're sad we have finished it - it just gets better & better! The good news is that more seasons are planned, (with a new "Queen")
https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1208159/The-crown-imelda-Staunton-the-queen-Olivia-Colman