The Crown. Epic royal saga grows on you. Slowly
It takes ten hour-long episodes of Netflix’s eagerly awaited new royal drama The Crown to cover the Queen’s reign from 1951 to 1955. So you can see it doesn’t exactly zip along.
But perhaps this spectacular £100million production’s lack of narrative pace is a disarmingly accurate reflection of life at Buckingham Palace. Slow. Chronicling the wonderful world of cutting ribbons and protocol in such intricate detail was never going to be a roller-coaster ride.