The Crown 6: the three weak points of the final season

There is no point in beating around the bush: despite having provided moments of great depth and historical accuracy, The Crown In recent times she has taken on the role she played before her Downton Abbey: that of one sumptuous, high-budget soap opera which was lucky enough to count on protagonists that the public already knew to try to tell something more about them. Sometimes it has succeeded better than others, but this last season remains a masterpiece of writing and staging which is not only a tender homage to Elisabetta, but also an example of how a quality product can be created when mind and heart are behind it. Along with moments of great emotion like the farewell to Princess Margaretthe only one, according to William, who seemed to understand what was going on in Elizabeth’s head, and to scenes of rare emotional impact, such as the unbridled jive danced by a very young Elisabettto greet the end of the Second World War, the last bastion of freedom before being tied to the diamond chains of the Crown, the last six episodes The Crown 6 However, they got something wrong and, since we are fussy people who love to find nitpicks, let’s go and find out what didn’t completely convince us about the grand finale of the Netflix blockbuster.

Kate Middleton’s disappointing portrayal

It’s a little strange to think about that The Crown has gone down in history for having captured the most subtle psychological characteristics of its characters and has not also made this effort for the future Duchess of Cambridge, that is Kate Middleton. Think about it carefully: what do we understand about her by watching the episodes that concern her? Less and nothing. We know that her mother – an old fox – intended to introduce her to William with the hope that she could win him over with her beauty, but We were unable to grasp either her essence or her spirit. Beyond the attractiveness of the actress who plays her (i.e. Meg Bellamy), The Crown with Kate he could have built a lot – let’s just think about the relationship with sister Pippa and the fear of dealing with royal etiquette one day – and instead he did nothing. The result is a two-dimensional character irritating in its lack of depth, and this cannot help but displease.

What happened to Anna?

So present in the fourth season, the one that introduced Diana to the court, so absent in the epilogue. There Philip’s favorite daughterthat at times harsh and harsh woman who has always demonstrated an iron will unlike her older brother Carlo, in The Crown 6 it is completely forgotten and left in the background. We do not see her interact with her family either when Diana dies or when her brother decides to get married to Camilla. Which is a shame, considering that The Crown she had managed to do painstaking work on her and her psychology: why interrupt that journey and leave it pending? Anna would have deserved more. Or, at least, we think so.

Harry’s disagreement

Leaving aside the clues that The Crown spreads between the lines to let us understand that sooner or later it will happen an incurable fractureand with the brother, we are left with a doubt: why the series has chosen not to make any mention of the role of second son of Harry inside the royal house? The condition, which also gives the title to the autobiography published in Italy from Mondadori entitled Sparei.e. spare wheel, in The Crown is only suggested by a joke from Elizabeth to William, when she specifically tells her nephew that being number two is much harder than being number one. But why stop here? Why choose not to represent Harry’s discomfort by stopping only at the opposition to his father’s marriage to Camilla and the Nazi suit costume at the Carnival party? A real shame, especially when it comes to The Crown.