Faced with the controversy over The Crown, Netflix ends up adding a caveat to the series

In the face of particularly virulent criticism, Netflix ends up going back to its starting position and adds a caveat, specifying that The Crown is a fiction.

While season 5 of The crown is about to be revealed, Netflix is under fire harsher criticism that never. So much so that the platform has had to take some pretty drastic steps in how it communicates about the series.

A fiction “inspired by real facts”

For the first timeNetflix has yielded the land with voices that rise like this The crown is accompanied by a Warning, specifying that it is a fiction. While the series already has around forty episodes to its credit, we can now read the following message under its trailer and on Netflix:

” Inspired real facts, this dramatic work of fiction tells the story of Queen Elizabeth II and the political and personal events that shaped her reign. “

Faced with the controversy over The Crown, Netflix ends up adding a caveat to the series — © Netflix

Requests to add an alert are anything but recent. There are two yearsNetflix had declined the claim of the British Secretary of State for Culture, replying very clearly: “We do not believe that a warning is necessary and we do not plan to put one in place”.

However, as season 5 approaches, critics point out the ambiguity of The crown between reality and fiction forced the streaming giant to reconsider its positions.

“Unjust”, “hateful”, full of “nonsense” … The Crown has strongly criticized

Everything points to Netflix intending to revive the tensions of a notch in this new season. According to the press, viewers will discover conversations in which Charles pressures John Major to force his mother to abdicate. The latter, the former British prime minister, did nothing in his response to Netflix, calling the series him a “barrel of absurdity”.

And he is not the only one.

Oscar-winning actress Judi Dench, who played Queen Victoria in the 2017 film Real Confident added its stone to this building of criticism. He called the series “cruelly unfair” against the royal family and accused Netflix of ” blur lines between historical accuracy and raw sensationalism “. As for William Shawcross, the British writer behind Queen Elizabeth’s biography, he didn’t go out of his way Daily telegraph talking about The Crown as a series ” hateful “full of “ lies and half-truths “.

Whether you are looking for historical anecdotes or Drama born from the fantasy of a screenwriter, go to November 9 on Netflix to devour season 5!