Sumptuous and gorgeous: The Crown Series Three's reviews
The Mirror: *****
'The Crown remains a fascinating, well-acted, and sumptuous drama series and one that is also, on the whole, rather balanced in how it examines what is likely the most famous family in the world.'
The Guardian: ****
'On the one hand, it’s tremendous. You’re riveted. By the relentlessly top-notch performances, the cracking story and frisson of forbidden knowledge. And on the other, it has the action stop every 12 minutes or so...
'Like the royals themselves, it is so confident and so precision-engineered that you don’t notice the defects.'
The Independent: ***
'As with the real Elizabeth, it is grand yet a bit colourless, gilded but never quite glamorous... And with the Charles-Diana marriage and Anderson’s Margaret Thatcher to come in season four, there is still much to look forward to. But for now the jewel in Netflix’s tiara has lost its glow.'
Metro ***.5
Then there’s obviously some missing moments from the show, where they’ve picked and chosen what to ignore and what to hone in on, but at the end of the day it’s a fictionalised version of history, not a day-by-day reconstruction, so you will just have to overlook it or lump it.
Overall, the series is great, and is veering in a new direction ahead of season four. It’s an interesting take, but we like it.
Digital Spy
'The Crown season three feels very different from the first two seasons. Its characters are more settled into the world in which they belong, and each episode is presented as a stand-alone with very few running threads...
'With the introduction of Princess Diana set for season four, we expect a lot more from the next chapter and season three may, in the long run, sit as filler for the overall box set.'
Vulture
'The third season, some major things have changed, but fundamentally, the Netflix drama remains the same...
'It is still gorgeously photographed, still committed to shining a new light on royal history, and still immensely satisfying to watch. It is also still extremely well-acted, even though that’s where the biggest shifts occur.'
The Los Angeles Times
'Colman is masterful as a cold but not uncaring figurehead for a country in need of solace. She has to fake tears when touring a disaster site where a schoolhouse full of children were buried under an avalanche of coal sludge....
'Colman carries that imbalance with her throughout the season, frostily dressing down her own son Charles (Josh O’Connor) then tenderly talking about the race horses she loves as if they were her real children.'
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