The Crown, Great British Bake Off, and a special guest - a podcast by Criticism Is Dead

We discuss The Crown season 4 (2020), a series about an antiquated British institution, and the Great British Bake Off season 11 (2020), a competition show that may also be an antiquating British institution?

01:27 Season 4 of The Crown, a Netflix series following the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, is about toxic girlboss Margaret Thatcher, the people's princess Diana, and the growing obsoletion of the monarchy in a world that has already progressed past it.

22:05 We have food writer and Eater London associate editor James Hansen on to talk about the Great British Bake Off (available for Americans on Netflix) and how it was maybe never meant to bear all the weight of 2020, just an idea! Check out more of James's work on Eater London and in his food media newsletter In Digestion.

(Just a note we're skipping culture notes this week because we have Too Much Content.)

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