919th Friday Blog Roundup
We started the new season of The Crown. Every time they switch the cast, I say I dislike the new season, but I know I’ll like the show again once I’m accustomed to the new actors. I’m waiting for that second watch-through because I usually come to that peace with the new cast in the second-to-last episode.
That aside, it’s fine. I’m less enamored with this season because it’s about their drama with each other. Whereas the other seasons certainly had personal drama, but it usually had implications outside the relationship. So I’m not as into watching Charles and Diana fight as I was watching Margaret and Peter Townsend not being with one another and the concept of having a public marriage (and how that marriage impacts the monarchy) or how marriage choice can be curtailed.
So I like it more than many other shows, and we’ll finish the season and watch the next one if there is another, which it sounds like there will be.
What do you think so far? Are you watching it? And have you finished?
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And now the blogs…
But first, second, helpings of the posts that appeared in the open comment thread last week. To read the description before clicking over, please return to the open thread:
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Okay, now my choices this week.
Finding a Different Path answered a call for pitches and wrote a piece about labeling women. She explains: “I wanted to write about how it felt to confront those labels and then where I landed, and how perhaps we shouldn’t be so interested in the labels but instead look at the value that women bring REGARDLESS of whether they are parents or not.” The pitch was accepted, and the article was published! Go over and read it on Insider.com.
Lastly, Searching for Our Silver Lining has a post about surviving layoffs. It’s about knowing the otherwise and therefore not feeling “safe.” She captures this one good thing: “One silver lining is the support people are giving one another as they find themselves hunting. The stigma of finding yourself unemployed is being challenged as people offer connections, recommendations, and general support.” It is such a painful place to be right now, and I’m glad there are good people out there.
The roundup to the Roundup: What do you think of this season of The Crown? Your weekly backup nudge. And lots of great posts to read. So what did you find this week? Please use a permalink to the blog post (written between November 11 – 18) and not the blog’s main URL. Not understanding why I’m asking you what you found this week? Read the original open thread post here.
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Coming back to this post now that I’ve finished season five of The Crown. It was meh. I didn’t struggle as much as I thought I would with seeing Umbridge in place of the queen. I don’t know if it’s because they’re now into a period which I’m old enough to remember, or if they’re just losing focus with their obsession with Diana and her death (like really, what was that last episode and especially the final shots? Ten episodes and that’s where you leave us?), but I found this season to be distinctly underwhelming. The obsession with Diana and Charles and Camilla felt almost dirty, like the show was making us into the photographers. And I don’t think it had to feel that way, except that the show was so obviously bored with everyone else. And they somehow managed to leave the impression that nothing else of note happened during those years.
It is interesting to look back it and at all the vitriol directed at Camilla and how outrageous the whole thing seemed at the time. I read one of the reviews of one of the episode (the site escapes me) where they pointed out that Charles is most often thought of (still!) as an adulterer when the reality is he’s been steadfastly in love with the same woman for fifty years. This whole mess could have been avoided if they’d just let him marry her in the first place.
So I watched it, there were some good episodes (I thought episode nine in particular was excellent), and I’ll watch season six, but I’m already confused. It’s clear they’re going to go past Diana’s death since they’ve cast a Kate Middleton. They’ve always said they know where their end date is. But why even try to go past Diana’s death and the public reaction to that, given how little they seem to care about everything else?
I know they originally planned six seasons, then said it would be five, then went back to six, and I think you can see some of the pacing issues with this season. I’ve usually liked the second season with a particular cast better than the first, so hopefully that holds true for this round!