The Crown makes a seamless transition, World on Fire deserves another run, and Smuggled reveals uncomfortable truths THE CROWN (Netflix) WORLD ON FIRE (BBC One) | iPlayer SMUGGLED (C4) | All 4 GOLD DIGGER (BBC1) | iPlayer THE ACCIDENT (C4) | All 4 So, THE CROWN: any good? There have been harder questions to answer. It’s unsettling, in fact, how quickly we shed any expectations of Claire Foy, Vanessa Kirby and the rest of the band, so seamless the transition and so thorough the inhabiting. Olivia Colman’s first words were “old bag”, but Olly’s caught the full weirdnesses required to make one’s mouth move in that way – “eulled begg” – as has Helena Bonham Carter as Margaret, the – I think we’re in spoiler-free zones now – pushy, stylish, jealous one, with her thwarted dreams of being “on ivvry coin, ivvry banknote”. Tobias Menzies as Phil the Greek now reveals the skull beneath the skin. Continue reading...
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