negotiations

 

The Crown (Netflix) is fantastic.

The British are great story-tellers, whether because of a reverence for literature or due to manic self-obsession as a nation, or both....  Many of The Crown's episodes and dramatic sequences feature negotiations.  Is it going to be this way, or that way?

     Our name is going to be Mountbatten.

     No, our name is going to be Windsor.

     No, Mountbatten.

     Understand you're not on board for Windsor yet, but if we go back to Saxe Coburg Gotha, that be goin' over like a lead balloon.  Sir.

The production values are lavish.  The dishes.  The music.  Season 4 dropped Sunday, bringing in Lady Diana Spencer and 1980s Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.  During a couple of Diana scenes they play a little part of the Stevie Nicks song, "Edge Of Seventeen."

     Just like the white-winged dove,

     Sings a song, sounds like she's singin'

     Whoo baby, whoo, whoo...

It's so good.

     The actress who plays Diana is doing a terrific job.  The Margaret Thatcher actress is excellent, too -- the real person she is based on, my God! -- she comes across as a sociopath.  And her voice!  Euaggh!  I almost called my internet provider to give back the internet and let them keep the change, just to get that voice away from me!  Lol.

     I haven't had such a strong reaction (negative) to a character since watching The Sopranos all the way through--the character Thatcher reminded me of was Tony Soprano's sister Janice.  (LOL.  Yikes!)  A thin veneer like a normal, grounded person, but it doesn't take long before the inner chaos and seething hostility towards everything just pushes its way outward.  Very interesting study in narcissism.

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