an overly detailed, unimaginative soap opera – I needed a martini to get through it
- Written by: Giselle Bastin, Associate Professor of English, Flinders University
Keith Bernstein/NetflixThe opening scene of season six of The Crown sees a man walking his dog under the light of the Eiffel Tower. It’s 1997 and a Mercedes car speeds past and ends in a horrendous crash in a Paris tunnel. The man’s dog is being recalcitrant and refusing to take its evening wee.
When The Crown debuted in 2016, the...
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