“A trashy soap opera”, “boring”, The Crown struggles to convince the English-speaking media

We expected it perhaps more than any other season. Season 5 of The crown has finally arrived on Netflix, and the first reviews Also overseas … And the results aren’t very glorious.

The reviews continue

Shortly before the release of the fifth season, The crown he was already targeted by critics, directed by relatives of the royal family. Former British Prime Minister John Major did not go empty handed, qualifying the program from “barrel of absurdity”.

As for Judi Dench, actress of Real Confidentaccused the Peter Morgan series of being “cruelly unfair” to the royal family and Netflix’s ” blur lines between historical accuracy and raw sensationalism “. Netflix had tried to get out of this bad patch by adding a warning at the beginning of the series, specifying that it was a fiction.

“A trashy soap opera”, a boring season …

Unfortunately, it seems that this was not enough to quell the fire of criticism at the time of the release of season 5 … Far be believed The Telegraph :

Bad taste and bad timing come together in the new season of The crown. It was once a high-quality costume drama, moments from 20th-century history grouped into a high-end soap opera. But as the storylines reach the present, the series gets underway a poor soap opera.

Among the moments that saddened the writing of The Telegraph, there is in particular a scene in which Queen Elizabeth II (whose state of health has remained deprived throughout her life) is visited by a doctor. She asks him for the latter “If we could take off your socks, Your Majesty”. “Of course we never see her undress, but it remains indecent “we read in the British newspaper.

Is The Crown Running Out of Steam?

While not all media criticism is equally harsh, most agree The crown runs out of energy with this new season. For example, Amanda Feinman of Slant magazine writes that this ” the fifth component is both more simplistic and less coherent compared to previous seasons “. At the house of varietywe even consider that season 5 is ” the lowest to date and describes it as “Generally scattered and blurred”.

Same story inside The Guardianwhere the season only gathers two out of five stars. ” It’s time for this boring little show to end forever “ writes Jack Seale, adding: “His cast is cartoonishthe plot is full of boring speech and several episodes could have been entirely deleted. “

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