The Crown (S01) 🍟 🍟 🍟 🍟
Portrayal of The Royal Family is the real tale as old as
time, and yet The Crown stands out from the crowd for being both historically
approved and beautifully made. Focusing on the life of Queen Elizabeth II, I
can't possibly imagine a better way to retell the longest reign monarch story.
We start early in King George VI’s reign, one you may be
familiar of on The King’s Speech, when Elizabeth (Claire Foy) is The Crown
Princess. It covers every enchanting things: her royal wedding, her marriage,
her compassionate relationship with her father and all the members of the
family, but also the not so pretty things. The King’s health is getting worst
each day, and truth be told that Princess Elizabeth and his free-spirited
husband, Prince Phillip (Matt Smith), are not quite ready for the fate
afterwards.
It is on the day King George VI died, Elizabeth is on duty
elsewhere and welcomed back by a letter her grandmother personally write:
“While you mourn your father, you must also mourn someone else, Elizabeth
Mountbatten, for she has now been replaced by another person, Elizabeth Regina.
The two Elizabeths will frequently be in conflict with one another, but the
Crown must win. Must always win.” In The Crown, young Elizabeth is humanized in
the most relatable way. She is strong and tender, nervous but determined. At
being The Queen of England, she sacrifices her life, and the series emphasizes
her internal struggle between the monarch and her personal life every now and
then.
The Crown covers some major events during Queen Elizabeth’s
early reign, and it ranges from her sister Princess Margaret (Vanessa Kirby)’s
high profile affair, her troublesome power balance with Prime Minister Winstor
Cruchill (John Lithgow, who basically own the show), The Great Smog of 1952,
televised coronation, up to global political sphere. Her marriage in Phillip is
generally there serving as the main plot, and it tells so much of Phillip’s
perspective about being the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his
children, and being nothing ‘but a bloody amoeba’, as the famous biography
notes.
I can start talking about how much I love love Claire Foy’s
performance and never stop. In portraying Elizabeth, she can't be more
astonishing, brilliant, and strong. The Golden Globe's nod is deserving. In
this stance, I have to also note that the entire team behind The Crown seems to
be devoted to bring you eye-watering creation of the real event, including
Elizabeth and Phillip’s wedding at Westminster Abbey with rumored $37000 worth
of gown replica.
It is an extraordinary series, something you don’t want to
miss. I can only have praise and praise for Peter Morgan, and no less than
that.
x, Michelle
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