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Is season 6 in the crown?

The first part of the final season of Netflix’s The Crown, created by Peter Morgan, is now available on OTT with four episodes. Elizabeth Debicki took over the role of Princess Diana in Season 5 from Emma Corinne.

Updated on November 17, 2023 | 12:42 PM IST

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Netflix A crownLike vintage wine, it gets better with each season. Is season 6 the best yet? I remember asking the same question after every season. Season 6 will leave you with tears in your eyes. And not just because it’s the farewell season of this incredible series that brought the British royal family what Shyam Benegal discovery Of India (Bharat Ek Khoji) did on the post-1947 legacy of Indian politics.

Season 6 will choke you with emotion as it chronicles the speed and nobility, Princess Diana’s phenomenal rise and brutal death as she breaks free from her marriage to Prince Charles and has never ceased to be the most regal member of the Royal Family.

Also read: The Crown Season 6 Episode 1 Review: Elisabeth Debic Returns as Reclusive Princess Diana in Silent Final Episodes

This is as good a time as any to let you know that Elizabeth Debicka is exceptionally magnetic as Princess Diana. Not only does she get Diana’s body language right (that sexual tilt, the charming side-sway and all) Ms. Debicki gets into Diana’s soul, so much so that when she dies at the end of episode three, I cried as if Diana had died again. .

The series features a cute fictional footnote to the fatal car crash that claimed Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed (Khalid Abdallah), where a man takes his dog for a walk in Paris to witness the disaster. Such inspired decorations go a long way to give this farewell season a classic nod.

Not everything in the series reflects the exact truth about the British royal family. Fayed’s powerful father Mohamed al-Fayed (Salim Dow, brilliant) is shown to be a schemer who plans to bring his son and Diana together. It’s an overly simplistic explanation for Diana’s wandering heart, which Debicki and the series capture with gentle warmth.

Among other things, this season The crown Talks about Diana’s troubled relationship with the paparazzi. The familiarity with which they challenge its privacy has now reached the Indian entertainment industry. There is hell to pay and Diana paid it.

Diana’s death and its aftermath, the queen’s dilemma, to grieve or not to grieve, is handled with wonderful subtlety and stealth. The series walks a tightrope between fact and fiction with tight narrative control. Performances go a long way A crown The eternal experience that is. Not only Elizabeth Debic, but Dominic West as Prince Charles is exceptional. His breakdown in the morgue shatters the screen… a rare meltdown in a series that believes in the glory of humiliation.

The first four episodes of the farewell season are full of brilliant dialogue. When Prince Charles suggests to Diana that they keep things nice for the sake of their sons, Diana replies: “Yes, let’s be brilliant about the divorce.”

The funniest moment comes when, right under Dodd’s nose, the father asks the maid if his son and Diana were “intimate”.

“I didn’t know, sir. But there is one room and one bed, – replies the poker-faced maid.

true brilliance A crown lies in how easily it fits on the heads of those who wear it.