The Crown · Season 4 · Netflix
The Crown Season 4
The Crown Season 4 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 9.0/10. 10 episodes on Netflix from 15 November 2020.
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What BollyAI Thinks
Season 4 is the show at its sharpest and most politically pointed. The double subject of Margaret Thatcher and Princess Diana gives the writers two women destroying themselves against the institution, from opposite directions. Gillian Anderson's Thatcher is a deliberate caricature that works precisely because it is also a portrait, while Emma Corrin's Diana becomes the season's emotional center, rendering a life the audience already knows with enough specificity to feel discovered. The season reaches major acclaim, with strong ratings on Rotten Tomatoes and a high audience score on IMDb, marking it as the show's best season.
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The Room
“Season 4's Thatcher and Diana arcs give The Crown its sharpest political and emotional edges - the show operating at maximum power.”
Rotten Tomatoes (critics consensus)
Standout Episodes
The hours worth arguing about - premieres, finales, and the turning points. BollyAI reads the room episode by episode.
- E1Gold Stick8.3
The hour fuses Charles’ visibility problem with national grief, then lands the IRA claim as campaign intent, not shock value.
Full review of E1 → - E2The Balmoral Test7.8
Balmoral’s stalking turns into the hour’s real exam, and everyone fails or passes by how fast they learn the house rules.
Full review of E2 → - E3Fairytale7.6
A proposal without kneeling, love treated like procedure, and vows rehearsed like bureaucracy. The season’s romance starts losing agency.
Full review of E3 → - E4Favourites8.6
Episode 4 stitches Thatcher’s breakdown to the Falklands escalation, using deserts, procedure, and silences to show how power copes alone.
Full review of E4 → - E5Fagan8.1
The episode makes the Queen listen in the bedroom, then quietly contains the truth afterward, and the contradiction is the point.
Full review of E5 → - E6Terra Nullius8.6
The hour turns Diana’s motherhood and Charles’s need for affection into royal compliance, using crowd noise and silence as the real conflict.
Full review of E6 → - E7The Hereditary Principle8.1
Episode 7 turns the Regency Act into a personal identity strike, and lets scandal pacing make Margaret’s plea land like procedure’s final word.
Full review of E7 → - E848:18.3
The hour turns sanctions into a vocabulary war, then shows how euphemisms can’t stop a constitutional fracture from spreading.
Full review of E8 → - E9Avalanche8.1
The avalanche ends, but the hour uses it to expose the marriage’s real instability, with Charles’ contradictions sharpening every silence.
Full review of E9 → - E10War7.9
The hour turns resignation, confession, and crisis-priority into one tightening knot, with Parliament dissolution feeling like the final lever.
Full review of E10 →
Season Over Season
The show's summit - every prior season's investment in character and institution pays out here.