The fifth season of "The Crown"... is it the right series at the wrong time?

The fifth season of the series “The Crown” began showing a few days ago on the “Netflix” platform, and deals with the unhappy era of the nineties in the life of the royal family in general, and Lady Diana Spencer in particular, and the end of her marriage to Prince Charles.

The series "The Crown" gained sweeping popularity over its previous seasons as the most historically accurate artwork about the British royal family. The huge production budget made it possible to convey a detailed picture of the family's palaces and their extravagant lives, in addition to the acting crews that changed 3 times to take into account the selection of actors who look similar. Real characters at different ages.

But since the series was shown only two months after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, this popularity is threatened by public anger.

The work includes stars such as Olivia Colman, Helena Bonham Carter and Elizabeth Debky.

What changed in the fifth season?

When Netflix showed the drama "The Crown" about the British royal family 6 years ago, the story was epic, and its events took place in the past, which had become almost forgotten, with a distinct link to the modern era through the image of the queen who had been on the throne since 1952, but that all changed with the fifth season. .

The Queen died two months ago, and the gorgeous romantic atmosphere that was one of the features of the first and second seasons has changed.

In the nineties - at the time of the events of the fifth season - the monarchy was at its weakest time, and it actually lost much of its popularity for many reasons, including the Queen's stay on the throne for very long years, and the scandals associated with the divorce of the Crown Prince and Princess of Hearts Diana.

Many viewers felt that the dreamy work that was transporting them to older times, which they imagined to be more pure and splendid, became realistic and frightening because of stories about divorce and families collapsing, and children dying of cancer, and it seemed as if it was a violation of the death of the queen.

Some voices came out to condemn the series and accuse it of fabricating unreal events, or at least undocumented, and transmitting events similar to the events of scandalous series, whose plot is based on marital infidelity, mental illness, disintegrating relationships, and attempts by children to harm parents, the most famous of which is the exit of both the prince (currently the king) and his late wife. Lady Diana is on TV to talk about their betrayal of each other.

A source close to Prince William, the current heir to the heir, told The Telegraph he had very negative feelings about the series, and he made a strong personal statement last year about wanting the BBC special, which was shown, not to be shown. He combined his mother with Martin Bashir, saying that the interview “should never be broadcast again.” He added that the program had no legitimacy and that it brought him “indescribable sadness,” knowing that the interview contributed greatly to the “fear, paranoia, and isolation” that his mother felt. In the last years of her life, which is an understandable anger, because he touches the feelings of the young prince towards his mother, who was taken from him early and exposes her personal life in front of everyone.

Deconstruction of proprietary personalities

The series enthralled viewers with its attempt to deconstruct characters shrouded in a halo of true royal splendor, princes and princesses, kings and queens who usually seem to be the true representation of full life.

But looking carefully, we discover the flaws and shortcomings in their lives. These symbols carry the privilege of the royal family, but it is a cursed privilege that brought them all unhappiness in their personal lives.

There are many times when we see the Queen, no matter who played her, telling one of the family members that she cannot marry this man, or assuring one of them that he must remain married to that woman;

The late Queen's children Charles, Anne and Andrew gave the same lecture, as did her sister Princess Margaret, who was estranged from her true love Peter Townsend.

The fifth season is no different from the previous seasons, as it has been walking in the same straight line since the third season, after the end of the first and second seasons, which were more accepted because they dealt with uncharted parts, but the current stories are known to almost everyone;

A large part of the viewers lived through it at the end of the nineties, or at least watched one of the many films and documentaries that dealt with the life and death of Princess Diana, which makes the viewer in a state of anticipation of what he saw himself and how the series presents it.

It is possible for the work makers to add details or information that were not known to the public while redrawing the events, or to present a different point of view on these events, which is what the makers of the movie "Spencer" did last year, which analyzed the princess's deteriorating psychological state in the last meeting. between her and the royal family.

The fifth part of the series did not present anything that it did not promise from the beginning. It is a mixture of drama and documentation of the royal family and its story.

Presenting these facts, including the scandals and distortions they contain, that do not discredit the series, even if it was shown only two months after the death of the Queen, especially since the work retained its good artistic level.

The Crown series, in its fifth season, received an average of 74% from critics and 84% from viewers in the evaluation of the “Rotten Tomatoes” website, to prove that despite the attack on it, it is still one of the most distinguished works on the Netflix platform so far, and its fans are waiting for a season. Sixth, finally, the date of its presentation has not been announced yet.