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The Crown: all in favor

I get frantic every time I see lists of the best of Netflix that forget about

.

Will those who sign them be some Kaffirs without criteria or will I be as in love with

of the United Kingdom as Peter Morgan?

The creator of

has made his queen an independent epigraph on his resume as a screenwriter and playwright.

His are, in addition to the Netflix series, the play

and the movie

.

The main character of all of them is the same;

devotion to him (to HER), permanent.

In all three formats,

.

It helps that she didn't have to create it from scratch and hand it over to extraordinary actresses.

In 2013

debuted in London's West End with

as HER.

Mirren also headlined the production in New York.

Two years later, on her triumphant return to London,

was the Elizabeth II of the stage.

Thanks to Peter Morgan's Queens Elizabeth, Helen Mirren has filled her shelf with awards.

An Oscar, a Golden Globe and countless theater accolades that she has sometimes dedicated, with her magnificent sense of humor, to the woman she plays.

With a meaningful and sober text and an elegant official photo, Mirren lamented her death on Instagram when it was official.

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Claire Foy

and

, much more clueless on social media, didn't catch on so quickly.

They also owe cousin Lilibeth a few awards as the leads in

.

Claire Foy has two Emmys thanks to her role;

Olivia Colman one.

And no one doubts that

, who inherits the role in the third installment of the series, is guaranteed nominations in upcoming awards seasons.

The first two seasons of the blockbuster were from Foy, the next two from Colman and the last two, still to be released, will be from Staunton.

The shooting of the

It was imminent, but shortly after the death of Isabel II was announced, information arrived that production could have been stopped.

Because, and Peter Morgan knows that very well, the end of

began to be written on the afternoon of September 8, 2022.

Morgan, the great fiction writer of current realities, will be as clear as I am that his series has to have an end and that end is a discreet death at Balmoral.

Anything else will be received by the viewers, by the fans and by myself (as I curse those who don't put

on their lists of the best series of all time) as a betrayal.

Peter Morgan is clearly worried about betraying the essence of his favorite character.

that is: dedication to his work and his people.

We will see if it also takes away your sleep not living up to the expectations of those who, thanks to

, we have put aside our recalcitrant republicanism.

Me, while I see the queens written by Morgan, I belong to him, to her, to them and to the monarchy as an idea.

Then it happens to me.

The Crown: the invented queen

I lie: the monarchist rage has abandoned me on several occasions while watching

.

And I fear that it will do more in future seasons of the series.

The fifth and sixth will deal

at the head of an institution that is failing.

Because that's her family, an institution or, as her members apparently call it, "The Firm."

The company.

Risky denomination when it is the business of some of its components that have given the boss good headaches (would they call her that too?).

The business adventures of his youngest son, Eduardo, and his daughter-in-law, the strategically prudent Sophie Rhys-Jones, were conveniently hushed up, after a scandal.

: to the vulgarity that always perfumed his marriage with Sarah Ferguson, the shenanigans of both were added later, even already separated, and finally his disgusting participation in a mess that implies long prison sentences. jail.

Will these, um, dark episodes make it into

or will the super-smart Peter Morgan convince us that excising them from his lavish tale is the best option for the sake of the play?

Morgan has been the best analyst of the triangle formed by Carlos, Diana and Camila.

This was as well documented as it was riddled with rumours.

However, he did not have too serious implications.

The writer was also brave in not denying the fascist connections of the Windsors, before and after changing their last name, but that very interesting story never reappears in the series.

Because the important thing is HER.

In

, Morgan chose to tell the queen about a moment that was still fresh for all of us: her non-reaction to Diana's death.

Will we see that again in

or will we have to settle for the story of when Elizabeth understood that a queen is not a queen machine?

That moment, the 1966 Aberfan mining disaster, is one of the high points of

.

Olivia Colman

and thus reconquers the country.

But it took her more than a week to do it.

What happened in that week is not public or official.

That's where Peter Morgan comes in: he connects the dots and gives narrative continuity to a collection of clippings.

He builds a queen who, before

,

and

was just a concatenation of faded prints.

Morgan and the luxurious production of his series respect these iconic vignettes in an almost reverential way, knowing that it is in the gaps between them that the series shines with its own entity.

It is the fabulation of

what makes it great, not a documentary quality that it neither has nor asks for.

It is also in its invention of the hows and whys of the queen where the Netflix series leans towards a monarch and a monarchy that, in the hands of another writer, could have been much worse off.

And they would have led to a much worse series.

And since what matters to us here is that the series is good, who would want that.

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