The Crown
Act of God
TV Flash files “Act of God” as hour 4 of 60 in the TV Flash guide — The Crown (2016–2023) on Netflix, season 1, episode 4, aired 2016-11-04, 58 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E04: listed hour 4 of 60 in the The Crown guide, hour 4 of 10 in season 1. It aired 2016-11-04 (58 min). The listed hour before it is “Windsor” (S01E03). Next is “Smoke and Mirrors” (S01E05).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
When dense smog cripples London for days and creates a serious health hazard, Churchill's inaction leaves him vulnerable to his political enemies.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Act of God sit in the The Crown guide?
S01E04 is listed hour 4 of 60 — hour 4 of 10 in season 1, season 1 episode 4.
When did The Crown S01E04 air?
Act of God aired 2016-11-04 and is listed at 58 minutes.
Do I need to start at season one, or can I jump to Diana?
Start at Wolferton Splash if you want the assignment to make sense. The Diana block is the loud look; Foy's seasons teach you the house rules the later actresses are wearing.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Watch it as a six-season fitting: three actresses wearing one job, Diana as a silhouette the cameras already thought they owned, and palace image-management as the actual plot. The jewels are punctuation. The posture is the sentence.
The first image is not a crown. It is a young woman in a coat that already knows more than the men in the room. Claire Foy's Elizabeth arrives like a held breath in wool: posture as policy, pearls as punctuation, a face that understands cameras because the cameras invented her job. Netflix did not drop a history lesson in November 2016. It dropped a fitting. Six seasons later the fabric changes, the actress changes, the century changes. The assignment does not.
Filed against
- Claire Foy as Queen Elizabeth II (seasons 1–2)
Claire Foy opened The Crown as young Queen Elizabeth II and set the series’ gold standard for royal restraint under pressure. Emmy-winning poise made palace politics feel intimate and dangerous — posture as policy, pearls as punctuation.…
- Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth II (seasons 3–4)
Olivia Colman inherited The Crown’s middle-era Queen Elizabeth II with steel, ache, and awards gravity — after Fleabag’s godmother monologue melted the internet. Post-Foy reincarnation proved the series’ casting gambit worked. On TV Flash…
- Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth II (seasons 5–6)
Imelda Staunton’s Queen Elizabeth II — The Crown’s last reincarnation, seasons 5 and 6 — is the cost of the portrait. Claire Foy is the becoming; Olivia Colman the middle distance; Staunton the years that already know the bill. Netflix…
- Matt Smith as Prince Philip (seasons 1–2)
Matt Smith brought restless energy to young Prince Philip on The Crown, then dragon-prince chaos as Daemon Targaryen on House of the Dragon. Dual prestige franchises, two kinds of succession crisis. TV Flash files him under casting…
- Tobias Menzies as Prince Philip (seasons 3–4)
Tobias Menzies’s Prince Philip — seasons 3–4 of The Crown — is the middle silhouette in Peter Morgan’s wardrobe argument: Claire Foy’s steel, then this hush-and-weight, palace image-management as the actual plot. On TV Flash he is the…
- Josh O'Connor as Prince Charles (seasons 3–4)
Josh O’Connor’s Prince Charles — The Crown seasons 3 and 4 — is Peter Morgan’s middle heir in the Diana years the carpet still treats as a live wire. Netflix royal serial as wardrobe argument; two-season reincarnations. On TV Flash he is…