ESSENTIAL INDUSTRY AND AWARD NEWS
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Harry Situation
To some, it’s always seemed odd that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle would sign a deal with Netflix when the streamer’s most buzzed-about hit is The Crown, which has delectably but mercilessly resurrected a litany of royal scandals for our viewing pleasure. Now that season four has portrayed Harry’s father, Charles, as an emotionally cruel and whiny philanderer, it seems even odder. Royal biographer Sally Bedell Smith goes so far as to say, “The Crown portrays some actual events, to be sure…but nearly all its dialogue, and most of its scenes and plotlines, are pure invention—often maliciously so.” V.F.’s Julie Miller digs into a royal mess.
Elsewhere in HWD, V.F. has a first look at Tom Holland as a returning Iraq war medic in the new Russo brothers movie, Cherry; Tracey Wigfield talks about her sly, energized Saved by the Bell reboot for Peacock; Cassie da Costa reviews the deeply affecting true-crime series Murder on Middle Beach;and the publicly humiliated veteran TV director Tristram Shapeero pens an apology for trashing a young actor’s apartment during a Zoom audition.
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