«The Crown», the story of the royals begins to lose charm and the parody effect is triggered- Corriere.it

From the fourth season past about a decade, the characters are loaded with years and problems. The marriage between Charles and Diana increasingly fragile, the Crown requires a second honeymoon in Italy that does not give the desired results, indeed. And Carlo (Dominic West, that of The Affair), increasingly clumsy, as impatient as to ascend the throne.

Shaken by too many dystopian series, too many disappointing seriesI have been looking forward to this new chapter of one of the most beautiful and engaging series of recent years: The Crown (Netflix). Peter Morgan’s story does not renounce writing of great quality and finesse to describe the system (the monarchy, in the words of the members of the Royal family): the first images show a fake Movietone, the newsreel of the time, as if to underline the scruple with which the facts are described.

Something for broken, the enchantment of the Crown it is beginning to lose its charm. Perhaps because in previous seasons Queen Elizabeth was alive and her disappearance leads us towards a somewhat melancholy reading. Perhaps, and I think this is the main reason, the facts narrated are too close, we have experienced them in person. The contiguity dulls the myth created in the first seasons and inevitably causes a parodic effect: the actor who plays Carlo too beautiful, Diana (Elizabeth Debicki) now a stereotype, Mohamed Al Fayed (Salim Daw) becomes a problem of inclusion, Princess Margaret (Lesley Manville) and Philip (Jonathan Pryce) are the only ones who are saved in a band of reckless men.

THEthe role of Queen Elizabeth II (Imelda Staunton) it continuously revolves around the sense of duty, almost an obsession, a space of emotional indifference that does not help to leave history to enter history.