We might get to see Matthew in this after all after the BBC shelved it due to allegations against an actor in the cast. They are replacing the actor concerned with Christian Cooke who starred in Cemetery Junction with Matthew – so all goode.
The Crown – Reviews continued…
A princess who rhymes with peril
The standout episode this year is titled Beryl—a nickname Princess Margaret uses while signing a mirror with a conveniently kept diamond—and it is primarily an episode about having a picture taken. Cecil Beaton, photographer and chronicler of royal faces that shine forth with dreamy otherworldliness, is trying to take Margaret’s portrait, and she can’t stand the stuffiness, or the best-case scenario that she’ll look like her mother. “No one wants complexity or reality from us,” the Queen Mother assures, before Beaton breaks into a daft soliloquy about a fictitious woman who lives in strife and who, on seeing the picture of a dolled-up princess in the papers, will break out the “new neckerchief” she has saved up for and walk out “renewed”. Churchill might have approved of this idealized depiction of iconography, but Margaret is a harsher critic.
She is also a lonely girl. Played with an effervescent uncertainty and self-protecting bitterness by the stunning Vanessa Kirby, Margaret is a woman wanting love and—despite her drily voiced disdain—conventional happiness. This episode, directed again by Caron, approaches that all-powerful yearning for cliché via a heady take on romantic-comedy tropes, frequently even leaning on the works of the writer Richard Curtis: Meetings and conversations take place at various wedding parties, like in Four Weddings And A Funeral, and some scenes requiring an incredibly famous woman to hobnob outside her circle do borrow from Notting Hill. Princess Margaret is arching her immaculate eyebrow at those-too-cool-to-get-up-and-greet-her when she finds her Manic Photographer Dream Boy.
Antony Armstrong-Jones, who insists on being called Tony, is played by Matthew Goode as the rake to end all rakes, a photographer so damnably cool that he can’t often be bothered to look through his camera while taking a picture. He stares, instead, at the subject before forcing his intrusive personality upon her. Margaret finds herself thrilled even as she can see through his act—she chastises him for a routine she calls “too practised, too well-oiled”—while he keeps upping the ante. To her, this ridiculous man, one who authoritatively slides her dress off her shoulders or makes a show of appreciating her posterior while she looks at him in the mirror, is what she herself wants to be: the ultimate provocateur.
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The Wine Show comes to Channel 5 in the UK
Friday 12th January 7pm Channel 5.
‘Re-incarnated from its previous existence on ITV4, this entertaining series finds new life in Channel 5’s “Gadget Show slot”. Wine doesn’t get enough airtime so it’s nice to see actors Matthew Goode and Matthew “don’t give me sweet wine” Rhys back. This time their ranks are swelled by James Purefoy and Jancis Robinson.
The team venture from their base in the south of France to source wines to accompany a lunch by Michelin-starred chef Stephane Reynaud…. How they were persuaded to take part in this nightmare is anyone’s guess. For those not sick of wine after the Christmas indulgence, this’ll be a welcome thirst-quencher.’
Radio Times
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The Crown – Reviews
A selection of reviews of Matthew’s excellent performance as Antony Armstrong-Jones:-
Mr. Goode was born to play the seductive Armstrong-Jones
New York Times
…photographer Antony Jones, played to arch perfection by Matthew Goode.
….the chemistry between Kirby and Goode is so intense that I’m starting a petition for them to star in a spinoff movie as soon as I finish this review.
Vox
Lord Snowdon-to-be, incidentally, is so wonderfully played by Finn Polmar [Matthew Goode] that I would like a special award for Pitch-Perfect Portrayals of Sixties English Shits to be invented forthwith so he can be handed it asap.
The Guardian
As before, the uninhibited chemistry between Vanessa Kirby and Matthew Goode turbocharges what can be rather staid drama. While Goode isn’t given quite enough to work with to secure our sympathy for Tony, the relish of his performance remains deeply seductive. And Kirby works wonders to turn Margaret in something akin to a tragic figure.
The Telegraph
Another pleasure: watching the heat that’s generated when she meets photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, portrayed, due to the grace of the British TV gods, by the dashing Matthew Goode.
Vulture
The Crown Featurette with Matthew Goode and Vanessa Kirby
The Wine Show – Season 2 now available on Hulu in the U.S.
The Wine Show is back for a second season and this time we’re based in the glorious South of France. Matthew Goode (The Crown, The Goode Wife, Roots, Matchpoint) is joined at the sun-drenched Provençal villa by, actor James Purefoy (Rome, The Following, Altered Carbon, Hap and Leonard).
In addition to tasting the wines brought back from around the globe, they are tasked by Joe Fattorini to find a case of wine to match a six course French lunch cooked by Michelin starred chef, Stephane Reynaud. But this year, Joe is not judging. Jancis Robinson, the world’s most influential wine critic, decides which wines make it to the Wine Show Case. And she is taking no prisoners…
Matthew and James journey all over southern France to find their wines. Their mission involves kayaking and caving in the Ardeche, rounding up bulls on horseback in the Camargue, baking in Lyon and even cooking their own lunch in the sweltering kitchens of the legendary Palme D’Or restaurant in Cannes.
And our old friend Matthew Rhys (The Americans, Brothers and Sisters, Burnt, The Papers) is also busy. He’s back in the UK exploring gadgets old and new in the glorious setting of 17 th century Berry Brothers & Rudd in London’s St James’s.
Joe Fattorini leads the team of wine experts, travelling the globe. Countries visited this season include the USA, Canada, Georgia, Spain, Japan, Argentina, Bosnia and Germany.
Amelia Singer and Joe find out how the local sheriff is helping with the labour shortage in
Mendocino county, new presenter Jaega Wise heads to Japan to learn about Sake. Jaega also joins Joe in a very festive Munich to find out why that city can lay claim to being just as much a wine destination as a beer mecca. New wine region British Columbia, Canada gets a visit from Joe and Amelia too. The Medoc Marathon is run by Joe Fattorini with adventure runner Jamie Ramsay – in fancy dress.Joe heads to Georgia to find out if this country’s claim to be the cradle of wine is true.
He’s in Bosnia to find out how winemaking is healing wounds in a war torn and still fragile country and visits San Sebastian in Spain on a mission to find wines for that city’s oldest gastronomic society.But Joe’s biggest challenge is in the first show where he heads to California to try and convince wine-hater comedian Gina Yashere (The Daily Show) that there is a wine she will like. But Gina has a surprise of her own…and Joe has 24 hours to perfect a five-minute set of wine jokes which he must perform at the toughest comedy club in Los Angeles.
The last show in the series is The Wine Show Food & Wine Special. Matthew Goode and James Purefoy introduce six of the world’s great sommelier and chef partnerships. In their restaurants around the world, they create some inspiring wine and food pairings. We visit the legendary Pied de Terre on London’s Charlotte Street, new sensation Single Thread Farm in California, the unique Bubbledogs Kitchen Table in London, Bel Canto in Lisbon, the stunning Lime Wood in Hampshire and the ground-breaking Dairy in Clapham, South London. We’ll also be revisiting some of the highlights of Matt and James’s journey round France.
[Extract from The Wine Show]