The Crown

Perhaps it is unfair on my part to rate a show after only one season, but I have decided to not watch any more of it after the first season. The premise interested me, but the show played out like some soap opera. It also glorifies the queen's life way too much, has poor historical accuracy on some topics, and skips other important ones. The idea is good, the execution not so much. Looked pretty though, and the actors were decent picks (though most are too beautiful to be accurate).

FIRST TWO SEASONS: Extravagant, gorgeous, and consistently compelling. Combines the best of history and melodrama in a spectacle that's unavoidably pleasant to behold.

The money spent on this thing really shows.

Gorgeous but can't stop thinking "Parasite in Chief". I don't care about any of these people.

Gorgeously made series. Great first 4 seasons, with season 4 being the best of the series. Last two seasons lack substance and are mostly boring and presented in an uninteresting way.

Very high quality writing even if there are slow patches. Worth a watch for sure.

S1: 82, S2: 82, S3: 80, S4: 82, S5: 82, S6: 80

High, consistent quality historical drama; season three dealing with prince Charles remains its peak.

very good

Not yet finished. Sometimes gets a bit dull but overall a fun fictionalized look at Britain over the last century

deducting 15 points cause the newest season is one large chunk of filler material

I just watched the first 2 seasons. Claire Foy was brilliant! To be honest, I don't really care about the other seasons. Later Edit: Wow! Just finished s3 and amazed by Erin Doherty.

Was a magnificent spectacle at first, declines hugely when Olivia Colman turns up as a laughable am-dram Queen impersonator, still retained interesting episode themes, but oddly went from High-Monarchist propaganda extravaganda to mean-spirited tabloid fantasy.

Okay. Just kind of fell off it. Emotionally tepid. No very engaging characters. No deep empathic connections. Maybe challenged by the legal liabilities of tackling one of the world’s most powerful families.

All the production value and acting talent it throws at us cannot hide the cheapness of its soapy (at worst tabloid level) approach, deliberately or accidentally undermining any thematic backbone it tries to establish. Even judged as a cheap soap opera some of this is just painfully contrived. Its relationship to history comes off as lacking any real commitment and there might be something discreetly gross about its superficial critique of monarchy and underlining fascination with its trappings.

S 1-4: 95, S 5-6: 35

mindblowing production and acting. took me a while to accept the new actors after season 2 and some never quite grew on me. Prince Charles and Diana were brilliantly casted.

☆ First set of cast was definitely my favourite- I'm interested to see how the next batch will do. I did quite love Anne in the later seasons though. So interesting to do this fictionalised version of real events. Super well made too. ☆

Season 4. Inconclusive, as is the TV norm, but features the best cinema 2020 had to offer. Fagan, the mental ward, the Apartheid duel, the palace's PR writer - all great, propulsive, socially aware drama that bests even the interesting Diana/Charles relationship dynamic.

Entertaining but full of inaccuracies

S01-04: Some episodes fascinating and captivating; some dull and pedestrian. S05: Show seems to have largely lost momentum. Less interesting than any previous season.

S1: 90 - S2: 85 - S3: 80 - S4: 90 - S5: 65 - S6: 60

1. Sezon

It's so well done you can ignore the real life story. Oh wait...

Gets better with each season, culminating (so far) with season 3.

Well-acted, well-made and, well, frankly, rather dull most of the time. (1 season)

S1:90, S2:80, S3:85, S4:85, S5:90

Maybe the writing's gotten better, but the cast most definitely has improved in season 3. (not enough Pip though)

Season 1: 80 Season 2: 60

High production values, A-list acting, and I'll give it the benefit of the doubt on historicity, but the dramatization is nothing but cliches. Everyone speaks in zingers and prepared speeches, so there's there's nothing to the characters beyond an archetype, and the scenarios are blatantly manufactured. To me, every episode is essentially interchangeable with any episode of almost any other assembly-line TV show these days - because the narratological dogma is followed just that closely.

Tot in de puntjes verzorgde serie, het hoge budget is te zien. Goed geacteerd. Leuk om te zien.

Seen through which season?

S1: 60 | S2: 70 | S3: 50 | S4: 70 | S5: 50 | S6: 75 | Great acting and wonderful production values. Everything just looks great. Seasons vary greatly in terms of pacing/interest, but it ranges from average to great depending on the episode. Highly unpopular opinion, but I thought season 6 was a bit more enjoyable than the rest, focusing more on family dynamics than politics.

Una serie "maestosa" in tutti i sensi, curata fin nei minimi dettagli. Il ritmo è un po' lento, ma la qualità è alta. Seconda stagione anche meglio della prima, ottimo il lavoro di introspezione fatto sui personaggi ed in particolare sulla relazione tra Filippo ed Elisabetta. La terza stagione si mantiene su alti livelli, nonostante il cambio completo di cast sia un po' spiazzante, ma appassiona meno; alcune puntate decisamente più riuscite di altre, quella sulla tragedia di Aberfan su tutte

Finally, there's a use for the Royal Family: to be subjects of a bitchy prestige soap opera. First two seasons are superior to 3 & 4 because of the casting and writing (S2 especially because of Matthew Goode & the Gordonstoun episode). With the intro of Diana in 4 the pacing gets too compressed (e.g. no Reagan, no miner's strike, etc.), and the dramatic licence for characters to get quote, "impressively cunty" becomes too much to suspend your disbelief. S1: 84 / S2: 88 / S3: 74 / S4: 64

S1: 89, S2: 70, S3:90