Boxing Clever: The Crown has morphed into a horror show
Dennis Thatcher (Stephen Boxer) and Margaret Thatcher (Gillian Anderson) in The Crown
(Netflix, Season 4 drops Sunday, Nov 15) has morphed into a horror show. It’s all about haunted mansions this time around; Prince Charles dragging his hunch-backed sourness around Highgrove; Diana, the beautiful princess in Kensington Palace with a dark secret (she likes Billy Joel); Maggie Thatcher in No 10 Downing Street appears as herself; and Camilla, trapped in a loveless marriage in her Gloucestershire gaff, slowly realising that she will have to spend eternity ignoring the fact that the love of her life is a bitter gowl.
Of course it’s The Crown, and it’s delicious and I’d be surprised if you didn’t gorge it all in one night. But still, I’m glad to hear that they are planning to put the thing out of its misery after the sixth season. Because there is only so much of this misery we can take. The main problem is Charles. He seems like a horror movie creation, because it’s impossible to imagine that a mere human could cram so many negative vibes into one body. The guy who plays him, Josh O’Connor, was on Graham Norton last weekend, and it was a relief to see that he’s chirpy and upbeat in real life.
