Terrific conclusion to Season 1 of The Crown - more, please!

Season 1 - and we definitely hope there will be more! - of The Crown keeps up its high standard start to finish, with the last episode, in which we see that he young Queen Elizabeth has slowly, almost without our noticing, become a kind of monster - willing to give up everything in her personal life and family life to serve the interest, as she sees it, of her monarchy and of the UK: she tosses her sister, Margaret, aside, breaking promises both to her and to their late father and telling her she cannot marry against the will of the Church of England. Elizabeth seems like a strong leader but she is actually a follower - she's popular enough to stand up to the fogies of the church and the Cabinet, but she's not strong enough to do it - and part of the tragedy is that she's all alone, w/ no one to counsel her (esp in episode 10, the finale, w/ Churchill gone and feckless and devious Eden in his stead). Have to particularly call out episode 9, about the official portrait of Churchill: the scenes in which Churchill, both cranky and exceedingly vain, poses for his official portrait and engages in a range of discussion w/ the artist - Sutherland (had to look it up): their conversations start of mundane enough but gradually get into the nature of art and illusion and, most important, the tragedies of family life both had endured and how they used art to help them understand and come to terms with their fate. Terrific writing - by Peter Morgan, who wrote each episode; I an even imagine the portrait sessions blown out into a full-scale play (though maybe less is more - it usually is).