96% on Rotten Tomatoes - the show's critical peak. Gillian Anderson's Thatcher and Emma Corrin's Diana as simultaneous subjects produced the most dramatically rich season the series managed.
Renewal: Concluded with Season 6 Part 2 on December 14, 2023, after six seasons covering Elizabeth II's reign from 1947 to the early 2000s. (Wikipedia)
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| Season | Released | BollyMeter | Critics | Audience | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 12016 · 10 eps | 4 November 2016 | 8.3 | 88% | 8.7/10 | MUST-WATCH |
| Season 22017 · 10 eps | 8 December 2017 | 8.4 | 89% | 8.7/10 | MUST-WATCH |
| Season 32019 · 10 eps | 17 November 2019 | 8.3 | 90% | 8.7/10 | MUST-WATCH |
| Season 42020 · 10 eps | 15 November 2020 | 9.0 | 96% | 8.7/10 | MUST-WATCH |
| Season 52022 · 10 eps | 9 November 2022 | 6.5 | 71% | 8.7/10 | ONE-TIME WATCH |
| Season 62023 · 10 eps | 16 November 2023 | 5.5 | 54% | 8.7/10 | ONE-TIME WATCH |
Season 1 · episode BollyMeter rhythm
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King George VI is dying, and the weight of the Crown is already shifting toward the young woman who doesn't want it yet. The episode establishes the show's visual register - gorgeous, cold, institutional - and Foy's Elizabeth as someone already performing composure.
Full episode review →Elizabeth opens in Nairobi with gratitude, almost rehearsed politeness, and the episode immediately undercuts it with a petty correction. Someone insists the gesture is not for a “hat,” it is for a crown. That small symbolic snip becomes the hour’s first thesis: the show is taking away Elizabeth’s p
Full episode review →At the start, the show treats administration like fate. A call lands, Winston gets greeted by “Operations,” and the palace immediately feels like a machine that never stops moving, even when the monarchy’s ground shifts under it. In the middle distance, the Duke of Windsor appears as a public idea b
Full episode review →The Great Smog of 1952 kills thousands in London and the Queen is constitutionally constrained from acting - a perfect episode about the gap between power and its use. The writing is surgical about what the monarchy costs the human inside it.
Full episode review →Elizabeth practices the coronation oath in private, and the scene already feels like a trap. She is not rehearsing ceremony so much as accepting a promise she cannot later undo. From there, the hour cuts to committees and policy, and the machinery of the monarchy starts grinding into place. Procedur
Full episode review →Crowds at Epsom gather for the coronation derby, and the episode uses public noise as cover for private crisis. Bill tries to pry the royal scandal into something sellable, but every time he reaches for the sensational angle, the machinery around him tightens. Meanwhile **Princess Margaret** turns a
Full episode review →The episode opens on court language that feels ceremonial until it isn’t. Someone addresses the Queen properly, “Your Majesty,” and the formality lands like a door closing. From there, the hour shows how power actually moves in Britain: through phrasing, through who gets told what, through the slow
Full episode review →The hour opens on a small domestic request: the speaker asks her daughters to come see her, and in that quiet room the monarchy starts to look less like ceremony and more like logistics. The tone stays flat but charged as the elder daughter steps into the center and immediately tries to claim meanin
Full episode review →The hour moves like a closed door that keeps opening anyway. Porchey steps into the Queen’s orbit with an old-fashioned proposal, and she answers with warmth that still cannot cross a line. Meanwhile, the political machine asks for one clean sacrifice: Churchill, the man, must step down so Eden can
Full episode review →The hour opens on refusal. Someone at the edge of the scheme draws a line that can’t be negotiated: they will not see the woman in question, only the brother. It is a small, private sentence that lands like a constitutional problem. From there, the episode keeps scaling up the same conflict. Love ge
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