When art is generous, so is the audience. A few days ago we began watching The Crown, the elegant new Netflix series about the reign of Elizabeth II, and episode two offered a scene so interesting I generously read more into it than it could possibly contain.
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Early reviews lavished praise on The Crown, a project written by Peter Morgan, who hopes to eventually devote a season to each decade of the queen’s reign. Matt Zoller Seitz of New York magazine offered an inevitable criticism, saying that the focus on setting and character crowded out “many of the larger questions that should be asked in a story that’s about the inevitable decline of an empire and a royal family’s increasingly marginal role within it,”
