The Crown

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Season 5
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Nov 4, 2016
Season #: 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
7.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 40 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 28 out of 40
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 40
  3. Negative: 3 out of 40

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  1. FreecheckKing
    Nov 12, 2022
    6
    I'm an adoring fan of the series and this season honestly let me down. The production values are still high but failed to realize the 90's flair of fading royalty.

    Elizabeth Debeki was incredible as Diana though and the series still has engaging storylines. Most are dull and paced poorly though. Hopefully season 6 is a more concentrated effort. Still worth a watch but not as elegant    I'm an adoring fan of the series and this season honestly let me down. The production values are still high but failed to realize the 90's flair of fading royalty.

    Elizabeth Debeki was incredible as Diana though and the series still has engaging storylines. Most are dull and paced poorly though. Hopefully season 6 is a more concentrated effort.

    Still worth a watch but not as elegant as the previous seasons.    … Expand
  2. j1train
    Nov 22, 2022
    4
    Elizabeth Debicki is sensational. Perhaps the best Diana ever. The show around her is borderline dreadful. It's the most blatantly monarchist season yet, most evident in Dominic West's Prince Charles, a portrait so shockingly forgiving and flattering that you have to wonder if the crown held a gun to Peter Morgan's head.
  3. raymond0229
    Nov 20, 2022
    6
    the season contains some scenes that are not needed. Also, it lacks the excitement it created in the previous seasons, especially season 4.

    On the positive note, the acting is still very well.

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Metascore
65

Generally favorable reviews - based on 37 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 37
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 37
  3. Negative: 2 out of 37
  1. TV Guide Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    Nov 17, 2022
    80
    As usual, the crown and its duties have a way of making everyone miserable. Except for the rapt viewer. [21 Nov - 4 Dec 2022, p.4]
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  2. The New Yorker
    Reviewed by: Inkoo Kang
    Nov 15, 2022
    40
    Startling letdown. ... The season lacks narrative deftness and historic scale. ... Season 5 takes a more he-said, she-said approach to her [Diana's] marriage. The depiction rings true, though it lacks the camp and chaos that enlivened the previous version. ... Season 5 shies away from the inevitable; Dodi is smitten with a different spotlight-seeking blonde by its end. Because of that timidity (and the compressed time frame), the larger arc feels incomplete, structurally unsound.
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  3. The Atlantic
    Reviewed by: Shirley Li
    Nov 11, 2022
    60
    Even with an impressive and capable new cast anchoring the proceedings, 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.
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