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It’s been quite a week. As I type this, I’m hanging out in downtown Denver as an anti-Trump rally winds past me, the sky filled with chants and signs saying “NOT MY PRESIDENT.”
However we pulled the lever for, I think most of us can agree that our democracy wasn’t exactly at its brightest this election season. A good many Americans disliked both candidates from the start—a rock-bottom beginning that somehow kept going lower. Most of us had to vote for the candidate we disliked least—which, perhaps, made some of us wonder whether that whole Boston Tea Party thing was such a great idea back in 1773. Wouldn’t it be nice to not vote for our leaders at all?
Enter Netflix’s opulent, elegant and, escapist show The Crown.
The show zeroes in on the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, still titular head of Great Britain and its sprawling Commonwealth (even if duly elected politicians run the dwindling empire in her name).
The Crown is compelling television—a program with royal gilding and a prestige TV sheen. It’s also a great excuse to look back at the British monarchy as a whole through the lens of entertainment. Really, we could probably serve up a good chunk of Britain’s history just through the big and small screen. Let’s try, shall we?
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