[bots]

i wont be rushing to watch this, they feature the ghost of Diana at one point who gives PR advice to the queen ............



The first four episodes of the final series of Netflix's The Crown have split critics, but many have given it the thumbs down.

Season six of the royal drama depicts the events of the late 1990s, including Princess Diana's death.

It also covers the aftermath of her death in which 'ghost Diana' appears to Prince Charles and the Queen.

In a one-star review, the Guardian said the "Diana-obsessed series is the very definition of bad writing".

"Beyond all its formal failures, late-period Crown is also impossibly hamstrung by being set well within living memory. Even if there were anything to engage with, the memories and consequent questions that crowd into the viewer's mind at every stage would make it impossible," wrote Lucy Mangan.

"It started teetering in season three, lost its balance entirely over the next two and is now plummeting into the abyss."

She added that this was "despite the uniformly brilliant performances from the entire cast".

Anita Singh of The Telegraph echoed the Guardian, writing that the "Netflix jewel hits a dead end" as the new season is "haunted by Princess Diana's bizarre ghost".

Her two-star review notes that the use of Diana's ghost "on the plane home from Paris to comfort a distraught Prince of Wales, and on the sofa at Balmoral to give the Queen some friendly PR advice", ends up sounding "like desperation on the part of writer Peter Morgan" who created the hugely popular show which has been running since 2016.

Singh also criticises the handling of the the car crash scene, writing: "The chaos of Diana and Dodi's final day in Paris is conveyed but there are no scenes inside the Pont d'Alma tunnel: we cut from the sound of the crash to the phone ringing at Balmoral. All dialogue in which someone breaks the news of Diana's death has been dubbed out; their mouths move in silence, and we focus on the reactions.

"Why do this? If it's for reasons of taste, why have the camera capture the bewildered faceof Harry as he mouths the word "no"? Good taste would mean leaving this scene to our imagination."

BBC Culture's two star reviewsays thefinal season is a "clumsy, predictable end to the royal family drama" and while in the past it was a "joy to watch over the years, too often in these predictable last seasons, though, we could have written the story ourselves."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67415437

[Nicky91]

bit rich of the media to write things like ''Diana-obsessed series''


when the media had been very very Diana obsessed too back then