Keep Calm And Crown On Hosts Mary & Blake chat the season 6 premiere of The Crown – episode 6.01, “Persona Non Grata”.
We discuss Diana’s impact on our cultural zeitgeist and why it was important to start the episode the way they did, the difference between on-the-nose dialogue and dialogue filled with subtext, and why Mary knows an inappropriate amount of the lyrics to Chumbawumba’s “Tubthumping”…
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Keep Calm And Crown On Hosts Mary & Blake chat the season 5 premiere of The Crown – episode 5.01, “Queen Victoria Syndrome”.
We discuss the dramatic irony of watching these events with Prince Charles against reality of King Charles, why the casting is perfect, and why Tom Hanks is the closest thing to an American version of the Queen…
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Keep Calm And Crown On Hosts Mary & Blake chat The Crown season 4 finale – episode 4.10, “War”.
We discuss the great symmetry used to close out the language of the season, the real life drama and how we related hard to it, and we discuss the overall theme Peter Morgan may have been trying to accomplish for season 4…
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Keep Calm And Crown On Hosts Mary & Blake chat The Crown – episode 4.09, “Avalanche”.
We discuss Diana’s motivations, why Camilla is a lot more of a fascinating character than we originally thought, and why we finally come to the understanding that we could never have an open relationship 10 years into our marriage…
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Keep Calm And Crown On Hosts Mary & Blake chat The Crown – episode 4.08, “48:1”.
We discuss the various threads being weaved into the overall narrative, why the Queen can lie to us but she can’t lie to herself, and why Mary’s out on everyone except Princess Margaret and Princess Anne.
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Keep Calm And Crown On Hosts Mary & Blake chat The Crown – episode 4.07, “Hereditary Principle”.
We discuss HIPAA, why this episode is great because it’s the thing that gets us to the thing, and why HBC only lets close personal friends call her HBC…
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Keep Calm And Crown On Hosts Mary & Blake chat The Crown – episode 4.06, “Terra Nullius”.
We discuss emotional intelligence, if the show has a Diana problem, and Betty’s Balmoral Bittys…
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Keep Calm And Crown On Hosts Mary & Blake chat The Crown – episode 4.05, “Fagan”.
We discuss how the writers use Fagan as a vehicle to criticize Thatcher being a smart choice, why it’s not a coincidence this is the inciting incident that will power the rest of the season half way through, and our brand new corgi we lovingly called Betty.
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Keep Calm And Crown On Hosts Mary & Blake chat The Crown – episode 4.03, “Fairytale”.
We discuss we chat a winding staircase motif, a real life story of being burdened by marriage, and why Blake legitimately cries this episode…
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Keep Calm And Crown On Hosts Mary & Blake chat The Crown – episode 4.02, “The Balmoral Test”.
We discuss the heavy handed yet effective stag symbolism, the political intrigue as an asset, and all the Scotland porn…
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