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In season one, Elizabeth makes her first television address.

(It still managed tomake John Major mad, which is maybe a point in its favor.)

It sticks to what we know: the images.

Morgan gets the crash itself out of the way upfront.

Brenna is hip and intrusive, while Muir is deferential to a fault.

Morgan frames the photographs as part of rival PR campaigns.

Diana walks across a minefield as photos of herself and Dodi together hit newsstands.

Subtle, this series has never been.

Their best interaction involves mutual commiseration about their fathers, one deeply meddlesome and the other emotionally absent.

But Morgan tends to stick to limited supposition.

Its the best possible resolution for the pair, probably too good to have been true.

What happens behind closed doors?

The best you could hope for, saysThe Crown, as it locks them shut.

The scenes are weird, moving, and too neat all simultaneously.

That, in turn, reminds you of all those photographs.

Everyone takes their piece of this woman, their claim to know her.

But all those facets, those glimpses, surround an unknown whole.

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