The Crown (2016)

This recap of Netflix series The Crown Season 3, Episode 10, "Cri de Coeur" contains significant spoilers. You can read the recap of...

The Crown Recap: Pushed To The Limit

This recap of Netflix series The Crown Season 3, Episode 9, "Imbroglio" contains significant spoilers. You can read the recap of the previous...

The Crown Recap: Choosing Who You Love

This recap of Netflix series The Crown Season 3, Episode 8, "Dangling Man" contains significant spoilers. You can read the recap of the...

The Crown Recap: The Former King

This recap of Netflix series The Crown Season 3, Episode 7, "Moon Dust" contains significant spoilers. You can read the recap of the...

The Crown Recap: Midlife Crisis

This recap of Netflix series The Crown Season 3, Episode 6, "Tywysog Cymru" contains significant spoilers. You can read the recap of the...

The Crown Recap: Wanting To Be Heard

This recap of Netflix series The Crown Season 3, Episode 5, "Coup" contains significant spoilers. You can read the recap of the previous...

The Crown Recap: What It Could Have Been

This recap of Netflix series The Crown Season 3, Episode 4, "Bubbikins" contains significant spoilers. You can read the recap of the previous...

The Crown Recap: Mother Issues

This recap of Netflix series The Crown Season 3, Episode 3, "Aberfan" contains significant spoilers. You can read the recap of the previous...

The Crown Recap: Responding To A Crisis

This recap of Netflix series The Crown Season 3, Episode 2, "Margaretology" contains significant spoilers. You can read the recap of the previous...

The Crown Recap: Vice Queen

This recap of Netflix series The Crown Season 3, Episode 1, "Olding" contains significant spoilers. You can read the season 3 review by...

The Crown Recap: There's A Mole

This recap of Netflix's The Crown season 4, episode 10, "War" -- the ending explained -- contains significant spoilers. We recapped every episode...

The Crown season 4, episode 10 recap - the ending explained

This recap of Netflix's The Crown season 4, episode 9, "Avalanche" contains significant spoilers. We recapped every episode -- check out the archive....

The Crown season 4, episode 9 recap - what happened in "Avalanche"?

This recap of Netflix's The Crown season 4, episode 8, "48:1" contains significant spoilers. We recapped every episode -- check out the archive....

The Crown season 4, episode 8 recap - what happened in "48:1"?

This recap of Netflix's The Crown season 4, episode 7, "The Hereditary Principle" contains significant spoilers. We recapped every episode -- check out...

The Crown season 4, episode 7 recap - what happened in "The Hereditary Principle"?

This recap of Netflix's The Crown season 4, episode 6, "Terra Nullius" contains significant spoilers. We recapped every episode -- check out the...

The Crown season 4, episode 6 recap - what happened in "Terra Nullius"?

This recap of Netflix's The Crown season 4, episode 5, "Fagan" contains significant spoilers. We recapped every episode -- check out the archive....

The Crown season 4, episode 5 recap - what happened in "Fagan"?

This recap of Netflix's The Crown season 4, episode 4, "Favourites" contains significant spoilers. We recapped every episode -- check out the archive....

The Crown season 4, episode 4 recap - what happened in "Favourites"?

This recap of Netflix's The Crown season 4, episode 3, "Fairytale" contains significant spoilers. We recapped every episode -- check out the archive....

The Crown season 4, episode 3 recap - what happened in "Fairytale"?

This recap of Netflix's The Crown season 4, episode 2, "The Balmoral Test" contains significant spoilers. We recapped every episode -- check out...

The Crown season 4, episode 2 recap - what happened in "The Balmoral Test"?

This recap of Netflix's The Crown season 4, episode 1, "Gold Stick" contains significant spoilers. We recapped every episode -- check out the...

The Crown season 4, episode 1 recap - the opening chapter explained

This review of Netflix's The Crown season 4 contains no spoilers. The drama series will be released on the streaming platform on November...

The Crown season 4 review - a spectacular fourth instalment that is prodigiously delivered

Who is Norton Knatchbull in The Crown season 5? We deep dive into one of the smaller mysteries of the fifth season and...

Who is Norton Knatchbull in The Crown season 5?

How much is true in The Crown season 5? We deep dive into the Netflix historical drama series to get a sense of...

How much is true in The Crown season 5?

The Crown season 5 offers a challenge for Netflix to maintain public debate of fact vs. fiction - here is our spoiler-free review....

The Crown season 5 review - an enticing instalment filled with fact vs. fiction conundrums

We give a royal recap of the Netflix series The Crown season 5, episode 10, "Decommissioned," which will contain spoilers and the ending,...

The Crown season 5 ending explained - why does Charles meet Tony Blair in private?

The much anticipated fifth season of The Crown season has been released on Netflix, and with it brings a new cast to play...

Who plays Prince Philip in The Crown season 5?

We give a royal recap of the Netflix series The Crown season 5, episode 9, "Couple 31," which will contain spoilers, so be...

The Crown season 5, episode 9 recap - why did Charles visit Diana after their divorce?

A new season of The Crown has launched on Netflix, and it brings the Royal Family into a new decade. A new Prime...

Who is the Prime Minister in The Crown season 5?

We give a royal recap of the Netflix series The Crown season 5, episode 8, "Gunpowder," which will contain spoilers, so be warned!...

The Crown season 5, episode 8 recap - why did the BBC approve the interview with Diana?

We give a royal recap of the Netflix series The Crown season 5, episode 7, "No Woman's Land," which will contain spoilers, so...

The Crown season 5, episode 7 recap - how was Princess Diana spied on?

We give a royal recap of the Netflix series The Crown season 5, episode 6, "Ipatiev House," which will contain spoilers, so be...

The Crown season 5, episode 6 recap - did King George V not save the Romanov family?

We give a royal recap of the Netflix series The Crown season 5, episode 5, "The Way Ahead," which will contain spoilers, so...

The Crown season 5, episode 5 recap - how did Prince Charles prepare to be King?

We give a royal recap of the Netflix series The Crown season 5, episode 4, "Annus Horribilis," which will contain spoilers, so be...

The Crown season 5, episode 4 recap - what caused the fire at Windsor castle?

We give a royal recap of the Netflix series The Crown season 5, episode 3, "Mou Mou," which will contain spoilers, so be...

The Crown season 5, episode 3 recap - who is Mohamed Al-Fayed and who plays him?

We give a royal recap of the Netflix series The Crown season 5, episode 2, "The System," which will contain spoilers, so be...

The Crown season 5, episode 2 recap - who is James Colthurst?

We give a royal recap of the Netflix series The Crown season 5, episode 1, "Queen Victoria Syndrome," which will contain spoilers, so...

The Crown season 5, episode 1 recap - what is the "Queen Victoria Syndrome"?

“Sleep, Dearie Sleep” is a messy, overlong ending for Part 2 of The Crown Season 6, and perhaps the most galling thing about...

The Crown Season 6 Part 2 Ending Explained - Why doesn't the Queen abdicate the throne?

After Episode 8 of The Crown Season 6 turned out to be not just the best episode of this season but one of...

The Crown Season 6 Episode 9 Recap - Did the royal family have Princess Diana killed?

The Crown has been rubbish for a while, and Season 6 hasn’t been much better, but “Ritz” sneaks up out of nowhere to...

The Crown Season 6 Episode 8 Recap - Finally, a legitimately great episode

Just when I thought we were safe, Princess Diana shows up briefly in “Alma Mater”. Thankfully, it really is brief, and it’s in...

The Crown Season 6 Episode 7 Recap - William Meets Kate... Thanks to Her Mother

It takes an effort to remember this these days, but people really liked Tony Blair. Before all the war crimes, the Labour Party...

The Crown Season 6 Episode 6 Recap - A Win for Tradition, Eccentricity, and the Arcane

With the ghost of Princess Diana hanging over it both figuratively and literally, Part 1 of The Crown Season 6 was, in the...

The Crown Season 6 Part 2 Review - Peter Morgan's magnum opus remains a royal mess

Princess Diana loomed over Part 1 of The Crown Season 6, often in the most ridiculous ways possible. The preposterous fourth episode was defined by...

The Crown Season 6 Episode 5 Recap - Recreating "Willsmania"

2023 ushers in the final season of Netflix blockbuster The Crown, with the series apparently coming to an end and covering perhaps the...

The Crown Season 6: The ghost of Princess Diana has divided critics and audiences alike

For reasons of taste and decency, it was always agreed ahead of time that Netflix would not be showing Diana’s fatal crash in...

The Crown Season 6 Part 1 Ending Explained - Grim, intrusive, confounding nonsense

The Diana Show continues apace in “Dis-Moi Oui”. Does anyone remember when The Crown was about the royal family? If you squint that’s...

The Crown Season 6 Episode 3 Recap - Say yes to me...

“All one wants,” says the Queen in Episode 2 of The Crown Season 6, “is for that girl to find peace.” It’s the...

The Crown Season 6 Episode 2 Recap - Who hired Mario Brenna?

The premiere of The Crown Season 6 begins as it means to go on – by teasing Princess Diana’s death in the Pont...

The Crown Season 6 Episode 1 Recap - The Beginning of the End

As with many of its recent big originals, such as Stranger Things and The Witcher, Netflix, in its infinite wisdom, has deigned to...

The Crown Season 6 Part 1 Review - A crass shadow of its former self