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The Crown
Season 5
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Diana and Charles wage a media war. The monarchy's role is up for debate. Welcome to the '90s — and Queen Elizabeth II's biggest challenge to date.
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10 Episodes
Queen Victoria Syndrome
E1
Queen Victoria Syndrome
Queen Elizabeth II feels at odds when a Sunday Times articles is being published about her replacement as monarch by her son Prince Charles. Not only she is viewed as old, but so is her most beloved family "home" Royal yacht Britannia, that also seems to need a much needed update.
The System
E2
The System
Even though the Duke of Edinburgh is most empathetic to a close family member who has recently lost her child, Princess Diana does not receive the same kind of support, which drives her to agree to help Andrew Morton in the writing of the 1992 "Diana: Her True Story - In Her Own Words."
Mou Mou
E3
Mou Mou
New rich business entrepreneur Mohamed Al-Fayed forms a bond with former Edward VIII's valet, who teaches him the ropes of gentleman society. Not stopping at anything to climb into British society, he finally establishes another bond, an unexpected one though.
Annus Horribilis
E4
Annus Horribilis
Between a fire at Windsor Castle and tensions in her children’s marriages, the Queen commemorates and reassesses her 40 years on the throne.
The Way Ahead
E5
The Way Ahead
The publication of a 3 year old both private and racy conversation between Charles and Camila Parker-Bowles places the Prince of Wales on the ropes: should he ostracize from the public eye or can he take this scandal as a means of really making himself known?
Ipatiev House
E6
Ipatiev House
Taking the reestablishment of Anglo-Russian relationships by the exhumation of the remains of the Romanov family as a background, Queen Elizabeth reflects on her personal relationship with husband Prince Phillip: does a couple need to have common interests to stay afloat or can a marriage survive in spite of seemingly growing apart?
No Woman's Land
E7
No Woman's Land
As BBC's Martin Bashir goes to great lengths to secure an interview with Diana, the lonely princess finds purpose and warmth in a London hospital.
Gunpowder
E8
Gunpowder
The Queen spends quality time with Prince William. On Guy Fawkes Night, fireworks make for a perfect distraction from Diana's BBC interview.
Couple 31
E9
Couple 31
The Princess of Wales contends with the repercussions of her statements. The Queen asks the Prime Minister for his help in a delicate family matter.
Decommissioned
E10
Decommissioned
After heightened public scrutiny, Charles forges a new alliance in Hong Kong. Mohamed Al-Fayed offers his support to a newly-divorced Diana.
Cast of Season 5
Imelda Staunton
Queen Elizabeth II
Jonathan Pryce
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Lesley Manville
Princess Margaret
Dominic West
Prince Charles
Jonny Lee Miller
John Major
Claudia Harrison
Princess Anne
Marcia Warren
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Elizabeth Debicki
Princess Diana
Season 5 Reviews
BuzzFeed News
David Mack
It's Debicki who steals the show with an astonishing performance as Diana that rises above impersonation (although she does a perfect impersonation) and captures both her grace and darkness.
Entertainment Weekly
Kristen Baldwin
Therein lies this year's theme: Tradition versus progress, the status quo versus a society in transition. And it all takes place against the backdrop of "The War of the Waleses," the very public battle between Charles and Diana.
The New Yorker
Inkoo Kang
Few premières have been as fervently anticipated as that of the Netflix series' latest season, the first following the Queen's death. But the ten episodes are a startling letdown -- a decline that parallels the monarchy's own.
New York Times
Mike Hale
The two characters at the center remain opaque; Morgan resorts to the same shallow, sentimental notions of love gone sour and family inflexibility that were the stuff of public mythmaking.
NPR
Linda Holmes
Morgan settles into a sort of "flawed decent humans like everyone else, born into circumstances not of their choosing" viewpoint. It's humanizing, for lack of a better term.
Variety
Caroline Framke
This new season is, however, an especially egregious offender, with Morgan's scripts hammering their most obvious themes home with clattering thuds, pushing allegory after allegory with vanishingly little nuance.
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Keith Uhlich
The penultimate season leans so hard into metaphor that the characters can't help but remark on the fact in catty ways comparable to Rose Nylund's sick burn of Dorothy Zbornak in one of my favorite Golden Girls episodes.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Jen Chaney
This many seasons into any show, viewers should feel like they know its characters very well. Too often, season five of The Crown makes them hard to recognize.
San Francisco Chronicle
Hannah Bae
The twin specters of grief and dread loom over the entire season.
NPR
Eric Deggans
I think this season asks some really fascinating questions and tells some compelling stories.
RogerEbert.com
Nandini Balial
Season Five is replete with terrific performances, especially from actors in recurring roles, but it's no longer enough. Writer and creator Peter Morgan's vision, like the monarchy circa 1990, is showing signs of strain.
Vanity Fair
Richard Lawson
The fifth season really zings when the show turns a hard gaze toward the maddening ways that Elizabeth and her cohort refuse compassion and adaptation.
USA Today
Kelly Lawler
Much like the British royal family in the 1990s, the series is beginning to show some cracks.
Newsday
Verne Gay
Compulsively watchable, as usual, but also on the reverential side. This "Crown" has no teeth.
Washington Post
Ashley Fetters Maloy
As always with "The Crown," the strokes of genius lie in the selection of anecdotes, and the new season finds compelling stories to tell even about characters it has soured on.
Slant Magazine
Amanda Feinman
The show's fifth installment is both more simplistic and less coherent than past seasons.
The Atlantic
Shirley Li
Morgan's approach to the personal lives of the royals is too sympathetic to ever be damning. The new season of The Crown never risks challenging anyone's reputation. Instead, it merely risks its own as a compelling show.
Boston Globe
Matthew Gilbert
As it charts the royal family's continued expulsion from their pedestal in season five, The Crown remains as superbly written and as addictive as ever.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
We get a number of deep dives into subplots combining historical fact with imagined conversations and scenarios.
Chicago Tribune
Nina Metz
If the various players here weren't members of the Windsor family, would their lives be deemed interesting enough for a TV series? I would argue no - they're not compelling enough as characters.
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