Kate's mom was so sick please tell me this is completely made up.
Oh yes, because I'm sure the library staff at St. Andrews is the rudest, most stereotypical prick you can imagine. I'm sure they could have thrown some shushing in there for good measure. #getANewTrope
total mixed bag, Ed McVey continues to do good work, imbuing William with the sense of isolation of a future monarch and, while Luther Ford looks nothing like Harry, I enjoy his mischievous take on him and the rapport between him and McVey is solid ("I want you to stay with the family" was SO heavy-handed as a piece of dialogue though)
definitely felt like a throwaway filler episode but the above positives really carried it through and just barely prevented me hating it. compared to the other 'isolated royal males at school' episodes (Season 2's Paterfamilias and Season 3's positively great Tywysog Cymru) it's easily the weakest. The courtship with Kate just feels so lightweight and the writing of the episode feels more informed by gossip and tabloids than substantive research and as another commented, it's so recent as to feel superficial in its import to the crown. I don't need these episodes to be 100% factually correct if it can get at some sort of relational/emotional truth but these last 2 seasons (and bits of 4 tbh) have had me unable to suspend my disbelief as I more and more often during an episode question how much of it is fiction
Shout by nicky2910BlockedParentSpoilers2023-12-17T19:17:47Z
Urgh, and we're back to the soap opera. Again, of course there always has been the soap-opera element in this show. But in the earlier seasons it was nicely balanced with a glimpse into what's going on in Britain and the world at that time. I'm sick of whiny, privileged boys, lamenting their fate. Of course, it's not fun to be in the news constantly, to be harrassed etc. But viewing yourself as the spare who can't outshine the firstborn... get some therapy. (And Kate's mother should get some therapy as well - although, to be honest, she couldn't have forced that gap year on Kate if she hadn't gone... so...)
But I think what this show's suffering from is that all these events aren't that far in the past. Most of the audience remember reading that in the papers or seeing it on the news. So, it doesn't have that informative aspect that the earlier seasons had, I guess, but is simply repetitive and boring.