Despite the mostly negative reviews this season is getting, some of the episodes are not that bad. Annus Horribilis and Ipatiev House were actually quite good and this one maybe a bit less so, but still a decent episode.
From a structural point of view it works quite well. The parallel between Diana's interview and Guy Fawkes' plot maybe is not too original but works very well, thanks to the timing. In Diana's case, the powder explodes some days later than the 5th of November, exactly on Elizabeth and Philip wedding anniversary. Such a malevolent touch.
That interview is such a perfect example of victimhood, egotism and narcissism that to this day never cease to disgust me. Obviously, most of the public had a different reaction, but then that's what narcissists are good at... fooling people.
The saddest part of Diana's conspiracy is that it unsettled so much the structure of British society that it turned into a cesspool of gossip and meanness even worse than before.
The saddest part of this episode is definitely end, with a crushed Queen Elizabeth sitting in silence in a large, cold, obsolete room together with the other innocent victim of so much spite, the little William caught between a rock and a hard place.
From a structural point of view it works quite well. The parallel between Diana's interview and Guy Fawkes' plot maybe is not too original but works very well, thanks to the timing. In Diana's case, the powder explodes some days later than the 5th of November, exactly on Elizabeth and Philip wedding anniversary. Such a malevolent touch.
That interview is such a perfect example of victimhood, egotism and narcissism that to this day never cease to disgust me. Obviously, most of the public had a different reaction, but then that's what narcissists are good at... fooling people.
The saddest part of Diana's conspiracy is that it unsettled so much the structure of British society that it turned into a cesspool of gossip and meanness even worse than before.
The saddest part of this episode is definitely end, with a crushed Queen Elizabeth sitting in silence in a large, cold, obsolete room together with the other innocent victim of so much spite, the little William caught between a rock and a hard place.