‘The Crown’ Season 3 Was Fine, I Guess, but Season 4 Is Going to Be So Damn Good
[There are spoilers ahead for season 3 of The Crown. If you haven’t watched the whole thing yet and want to remain un-spoiled, bookmark this post for a later date!]
The third season of The Crown dropped on Netflix this weekend, and it’s not *not* good. The acting is incredible. Olivia Colman is a queen on- and offscreen. Tobias Menzies, the new Prince Philip, is amazingly good. The new Princess Anne? A sassy bitch, who I love. And the sets are better than they’ve ever been. There is so much to love about this show, and season 3 was good. But season 4 is going to blow it out of the water for one simple reason: Prince Charles and Princess Diana.
The Crown dedicates each season to one decade, which logically makes a lot of sense. Ten episodes, ten years, bing, bang, boom. But the issue with that is the decade this one covers is...inherently not that exciting?? The queen and Prince Philip have officially aged out of their cheating saga, which makes their arc less saucy. All the main characters are officially middle-age, which means they’re more mature and more settled into their roles. It’s less exciting.
I’m not trying to say I can’t appreciate dramas about people who are over 30, but part of what made the first two rounds of the show so compelling was that Queen Elizabeth was such a young ruler and she was trying to take command in a role where almost everyone underestimated her. And her marriage was relatively new, so the troubles of the first decade of life with someone else made for damn good TV (even though I’m bummed she had to live through that IRL).
While the majority of S3 is kinda bland, the very end gives us hope that S4 will be FULL of drama. Prince Charles takes on a bigger role within the family, and we meet a young version of his far-in-the-future wife, Camilla Shand. Was I the only one who had literally no idea there was a love quadrangle among Camilla, Charles, Andrew (Camilla’s eventual first husband), and Princess Anne? Shocking news! Charles and his sister dated two people who eventually got married! That’s the kind of royal scandal we love to see!
And while Princess Diana doesn’t make an appearance in these episodes, we know for a fact she does in season 4 because we have the photos to prove it. Paparazzi caught pics of the fictional Prince Charles and Princess Diana filming scenes together.
It looks like the crew is going to painstaking lengths to recreate real Diana outfits, and this is from a trip the couple took after they got married. You wanna know what that means? ROYAL WEDDING TIME. Nothing in this S3 even comes remotely close to how good that’s going to be. The drama! The dress! The pre-wedding tears! Their love story was one that captured the attention of the entire world, and it’s going to give the next 10 episodes of the show such an irresistible storyline.
What makes The Crown so great is that you feel like you’re learning insider royal tea just by watching. The third season is upsettingly light on that, but the next certainly won’t be. Grab your finger sandwiches and crumpets, people, because shit’s about to go down.
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