User Rating
Creator
Peter Morgan
Cast
Olivia Colman,
Tobias Menzies,
Helena Bonham Carter,
Josh O'Connor,
Emma Corrin,
Marion Bailey
Genre
Drama
This drama tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world — Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street — and the dramas, romances, and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
The Crown is a super interesting and well-made television show going through the lives and drama of the royal family. Beginning with the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and concluding this year with William and Harry's young adulthood, The Crown is an excellent addition to the surplus of media surrounding the Royal family. Don't worry if you're not already invested in the British Monarchy; the writing and performances are enough to keep anyone's attention.
New York Magazine (Vulture) by Jen Chaney
On every level, The Crown is deserving of praise. But it’s that subtle emphasis on the idea that even the most stubborn among us can at least try to evolve that makes it vital end-of-2017 viewing.
Newsday by Verne Gay
The first season was initially hagiography masking as a high-end TV series, but the second season is Vanity Fair, full of characters, life, humor, passion and buttered scones. Morgan not only has a series to match his 2006 Oscar-winning movie, “The Queen,” but finally one to exceed it. The Crown--the second season, anyway--is magnificent.
San Francisco Chronicle by David Wiegand
The new season is even more engaging that the first. The other reasons include Morgan’s writing, spot-on direction from Stephen Daldry, Philip Martin, Benjamin Caron and others, and superb performances at almost every level. ... The fact that it’s one of the best shows in town is just the jewel in The Crown.
Variety by Sonia Saraiya
Foy is doing the best performance currently on dramatic television in her Elizabeth. ... There are few shows currently on air that convince you of how carefully considered its vision is, but The Crown does it constantly--whether that is the way the light streams through the window onto Philip’s shoulders, or the set of Elizabeth’s jaw as she addresses her prime minister. For that alone it is remarkable.
Collider by Allison Keene
Like its first season, each new episode makes its mark and tells its own complete story, all while staying linked to Elizabeth’s journey as a monarch, mother, and wife. It’s another exceptionally strong season of television, full of compelling drama and sweeping grandeur.
Uncle Barky by Ed Bark
It’s all quite enthralling and majestic.
Boston Globe by Matthew Gilbert
The show, created and written by Peter Morgan of “The Queen” and “Frost/Nixon,” is thoroughly engaging, gorgeously shot, beautifully acted, rich in the historical events of postwar England, and designed with a sharp eye to psychological nuance.
Newark Star-Ledger by Vicki Hyman
A sumptuous, stately but never dull look inside the life of Queen Elizabeth (Claire Foy).
St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Gail Pennington
The Crown is as beautifully filmed as could be, with scenes in Malta and Kenya as well as Balmoral in Scotland. The costuming is meticulous, as is the choreography of everything from dressing to mealtime to a train trip. Deliberate pacing (naysayers might say slow) allows time to appreciate all this.
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