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Peter Morganloves a stag-hunt scene.
Time for a preoccupation with the moon landing.
Margaret struck with self-destructive ennui?
Enter: her long dalliance with a photographer, who emphasizes and pushes against her vanity.
Margaret Thatcher doesnt fit in?
Theres an element of desperation to it, a terror of being misinterpreted.
All the nuance has been shaved off, leaving only the baldest, most obvious thesis statements imaginable.
Monarchy is dignified, and the new generation doesnt get it.
The Windsors are bad fathers.
This show was not always so facile.
The Duke of Edinburgh was hardly the most communicative or affectionate father to me.
Hardly surprising given the delinquency of his own fathers parenting.
Its not a nudge, its being whacked over the head with a two by four.Do you get it?
Its a generational pattern!
Theres plenty of overdetermined dialogue to go around.
Is it possible youre angry at [Diana] for having been all the things youre not?
Comfortable in the spotlight.
Confident in front of an adoring crowd, which you think you now have to be?
asks Philip, suddenly a thoughtful family therapist despite all previous evidence of his total emotional constipation.
Butthe finaleis ready to hammer things home.
What about the life I put aside?
The woman I put aside when I became queen?
the elderly Elizabeth asks a ghost of her younger self, played by returning Claire Foy.
For years now, there has been just one Elizabeth.
If you went looking for Elizabeth Windsor, you wouldnt find her, says the younger Elizabeth.
This seems plenty clear, but still she continues.
You buried her years ago.
You are one of a kind, he tells Elizabeth.
But the partys over.
When stories draw toward a conclusion, they often reach for straightforward single-mindedness.
But even in its earliest episodes,The Crownwas working toward a predetermined ending.
But season six takes great pains to eliminate any uncertainty in that regard.
Here, its unreservedly victorious.
Tradition is our strength.
Respect for our forebears, and the preservation of generations of their wisdom and learned experience.
I tend to see things as binary, he tells her.
Either you keep things as they are, or its closing time in the garden of the West.
ButThe Crownwont let that level of ambiguity stand.
