Season 2 Of 'The Crown' Exposes The Royal Family's Fitful Evolution
The best episodes of this season are layered and complex; they juggle questions of whether a good marriage is possible in a royal setting, and how forgiveness has its limits.
I never really understood why so many people saw The Crown as a superior TV show last season.
Yes, the Netflix drama has the production values and ambition of an epic motion picture, tracing the long reign of Queen Elizabeth II. And for those who miss the aristocratic soap opera of Downton Abbey, a big-budget recounting of the royal family's turmoil over marriages and abdications is quite a replacement. Who can argue with 13 Emmy nominations?
Still, to me, there too often felt like a show telling two disconnected stories — one focused on world-shaking events which shaped the face of modern England, and the other on the palace intrigue of a royal family distanced from those big events.
