REVIEW / Many fans of the series The Crown, which “charted” the fortunes of the British royal family since Queen Elizabeth II, were excited about it, but the fact is that the last series, which brought us almost to the present day, is a huge disappointment. Better put – the first half that Netflix launched in November was a disappointment, the second half is already a real mess.
The four episodes in November chronicled the last weeks of Princess Diana’s life before she died in a tunnel accident in Paris. Although the representative of the “princess of human hearts” Elizabeth Debicki herself is great, and one sometimes feels that one is seriously watching the Diana that the whole world knew, the screenwriter Peter Morgan obviously overshot. As if to prove to everyone that he knows so much more than others, he made Dodi Al-Fayed in particular an incompetent underling of his own father. And the painfully sweet soap opera culminated in the fact that the deceased Diana gradually appears to her ex-husband Charles and his mother Elizabeth II. and Dodi to his father. And one starts to feel a little embarrassed.
But if we were initially taken aback by something, the next parts lower the bar suitable for a soap opera even further. Charles’ dialogues with Prince William, whose dreamy look we are forced to observe for tens of minutes without meaning anything, very soon start to get boring. Of course, the actors here are also excellently chosen (perhaps except for Harry, who suddenly seems to have grown up by a few years during the transition from one part to another, perhaps by magic), especially William, as if he had lost sight of his real-life role model. But his behavior is appalling.
And then there is the most thankless and probably the worst written role. Yes, she is Kate Middleton. None of us probably doubt that by the time she managed to capture the attention of the young prince, she must have been an ambitious girl from an even more ambitious family. But Morgan’s construction seems more like a parody. It is not clear if he did so because he does not like Duchess Catherine or if he simply wanted to spice up the story, but if in the first part of the series he showed the audience that Dodi Al-Fayed could not make decisions about his life without his father, in the second he claims the same about Kate Middleton and her relationship with her own mother.
The latest Morgan to take away a large chunk of dignity is Prince Phillip. His opinion is not considered, except when he decides to fix the relationship between William and Charles in order to reflect on what a bad father he himself has been. The moment she watches her son hug her grandson as if she’s fallen out of the cheapest American milkshake.
But let’s not just criticize. If there’s one role that’s really worked out, it’s the popular and hugely successful British Labor Prime Minister Tony Blair in his time. His dialogues with his wife and the queen are funny, watching his speeches and gestures you feel like you’re watching the news from twenty years ago, not just any soap opera. The choice of actors is the real strength of Netflix’s Koruna. It should end at the top, unfortunately the creators didn’t manage to do that. Despite many fumbles in the last line, they created an unforgettable and entertaining work that entertains and will entertain millions and millions of viewers.
2023-12-17 04:02:18
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