Video transcript:The brilliance of “The Crown” is it forces you, against your will, to like people you know you hate. Not just the Queen, but the reprehensible, like Prince Philip; the messy, like Princess Margaret, and Charles, who’s pathetic. Then along comes Prince Andrew’s interview, and you feel free to hate again. Yet the fiction of “The Crown” will, over time, prevail against the reality of Prince Andrew, just as England as a cultural object will somehow survive the reality of Brexit. Now “The Crown,” as someone wrote, has turned into “Coronation Street” — with coronations.

Source: thestar December 03, 2019 22:28 UTC