Crowns And Thrones: It’s Our Marvelous Good Place Of All The Best TV Shows Of The Past Decade

By John Meyer

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#10 – 'The Crown’

The praise for "The Crown" goes beyond the charismatic casting and the delicate storylines and extends to its gorgeous presentation and its attention to all the gaudy details of royal life. Historians may bicker about each episode's accuracy, but the Buckingham bottom line is the series succeeds in portraying Queen Elizabeth II as a sympathetic sovereign worthy of our time and interest. The subtitle for seasons 1 and 2 might as well be "The Making of a Queen" as we watched the young monarch deftly manoeuvre around the powerful men who wanted to mould her in their own images. Unfortunately, season 3 finds the Queen in more familiar territory. Here her creation myth has been replaced by a straightforward, episodic arc. Yes, there was an initial spark of fun as the young cast was replaced by older actors. But the story itself is stuck in middle gear. Now the wiser Windsors simply keep calm and carry on... while living in gilded cages.

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