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- Netflix
- Nov 15, 2020
- Netflix
- Nov 15, 2020
Summary The rise of Queen Elizabeth II (Claire Foy) is chronicled from her wedding in 1947 to present day in the series planned to air over six seasons.
Created By: Peter Morgan
- Netflix
- Nov 15, 2020
- Netflix
- Nov 15, 2020
Summary The rise of Queen Elizabeth II (Claire Foy) is chronicled from her wedding in 1947 to present day in the series planned to air over six seasons.
Created By: Peter Morgan
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 28 Critic Reviews
86
96% Positive
27 Reviews
27 Reviews
4% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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The richest season to date of this juicy drama. [23 Nov - 6 Dec 2020, p.10]
While Season 4 offers magnificent opulence, magnetic performances, and flawless execution, it’s underlying theme asks if the time for change has finally come.
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Universal Acclaim
Based on 70 User Ratings
8.2
84% Positive
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4% Mixed
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User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 70 User Ratings
8.2
84% Positive
59 Ratings
59 Ratings
4% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
11% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
Emma Corrin's Princess Di and Gillian Anderson's Iron Lady quickly make their way up to the best performances on The Crown. While this season drifts towards Charles and Diana, it still balances itself with politics, duty and of course, a wonderful Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth. Overall, it is a shockingly good season, combined with amazing acting.
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SEASON 4
Superb and sprawling. ... Where most shows would try to cram everything in, “The Crown” is all about smart choices. We don’t get the full blow-by-blow of Diana’s strange engagement to a difficult and even cruelly neglectful Charles, played terrifically by Josh O’Connor. ... These Charles/Di go-rounds may indeed butter “The Crown’s” bread, but the real news this time is Gillian Anderson’s devastatingly precise portrayal of Margaret Thatcher.
Anderson, a favorite in British theater, shows American audiences yet another nuanced take that manages to nudge even Colman’s performance. ... While Corrin doesn’t make a deep impression until the third episode, she gives Diana a strength we haven’t seen before.
The fourth season is the first in which the domestic tensions among the royals is anywhere near as interesting as the British history that unfolds outside the palace gates. Creator Peter Morgan and his writers remain impressive in their ability to condense national events into dramatically compelling crises-of-the-week and flesh out real-life personages through just a few scenes.
The encounters between the two women [The Queen and Margaret Thatcher] are a running theme, and make for delicious viewing. But the real star of this fourth season is, inevitably, Diana. ... It all makes for a riveting soap opera. And, against all this, Mrs Thatcher is almost light relief.
Since the season is largely divided between Thatcher and Diana, you have some terrific Thatcher episodes and some really shaky Diana episodes, and unlike Season 2, which has been the show’s strongest thus far, there’s no major arc that ties everything together.
That this show, a Downtown Abbey version of real events, that would have been laughed at by serious film critics 30 years ago, is so highly valued by "millenial" "woke" critics and public alike shows that stupidity and mediocrity are now entrenched in American society on the right and the left alike. Not only it is rewriting history in a very insidious way but also gets lost in the most trivial and inane aspects of English politics of the last 70 years.
As a French, and no Anglophile, I am first aghast at the depiction of England as a political culture but also, and more importantly. repulsed by the inanity of what America is not onlycreating for itself but also forcing onto the world. At least Hollywood gave us John Ford, Martin Scorcese or Francis Ford Coppola. Netflix, Disney and Hulu are peddling nothing but crap
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