God save the Queen: “The Crown” and Elizabeth II regain the pomp and pageantry to bid farewell | the television

The queen is back to leave now. the crown He says goodbye and also says goodbye as he deserves to his Queen Elizabeth II. It’s been seven years since the premiere, and now the farewell is highly anticipated. Since November 4, 2016, a lot has changed in this series, in fiction in general, and also of course in its depiction, in the subject of its study and success: the British royal family. After five and a half seasons, since the sixth season was divided into two parts,…

The queen is back to leave now. the crown He says goodbye and also says goodbye as he deserves to his Queen Elizabeth II. It’s been seven years since the premiere, and now the farewell is highly anticipated. Since November 4, 2016, a lot has changed in this series, in fiction in general, and also of course in its depiction, in the subject of its study and success: the British royal family. After five and a half seasons, since the sixth part was split into two parts, the last six chapters of the British novel (on Netflix since last Thursday) reclaim once again everything that gave it its brilliance all these years: silence, reflection. The conversations with double and triple intentions, the passion, the looking forward with one eye back, the quarrels and its eternal heroine in all her duality: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of England.

If the first four seasons were an almost obligatory summation of the resolution of the well-known and sad fate of Diana Wells, painted with a somewhat thicker brush than Peter Morgan and his companions are accustomed to, this time the creator has regained the elegance that characterizes him to pose the next challenge to the viewer: what will happen to the Queen . When the series began, Elizabeth II had just turned 90 and six decades on the throne, and was still surprisingly active. Today, the panorama is different. The King died at Balmoral Castle in September 2022, 15 months before the series finale, specifically during the filming of this sixth and final season, and was temporarily paralyzed as a sign of mourning. Although this sixth season focuses on the late 1990s and reaches the mid-2000s, that inevitable future, which Elizabeth II had so much in mind, floats throughout the season and is resolved (in a final act that is much better out Totally from it). Blindly, without even knowing the plot) in very Petermorganskyvery the crown.

This entire final season tastes like goodbye. It’s a glimpse into the future. It is difficult to even focus on the present, seeing the inevitable departure of some of its heroes. incorrect Spoilers; After all, it’s based on true events that happened just two decades ago. Then the future is no longer Carlos, but William. The final season gives him a role very similar to that of the real world: a focused kid, without being naughty or condescending; Closer to his grandmother than his father; With Diana and Kate Middleton as the target. As it always happens in… the crown With Morgan, we will never know exactly what is real and what is an image created for illusion, and what proportion of reality is in the imagination, but the Guillermo glimpsed exactly matches what can be known about the current heir to the king. throne. In its plot, perhaps what most surprises those uninitiated into the depths of Windsor is what happens to Carole Middleton, the mother of his girlfriend, which is reminiscent of what happened to Mohamed Al Fayed last season and which opens up questions – to what extent has the current Princess of Wales’s family maneuvered to have a chance with William? This is something that can never be solved.

The one who brings out the worst, as in real life, is Enrique. His character flies through the season, having little more than a small plot at the end, but is uncomfortable throughout the episodes; Anything similar to what’s actually going on with him a company (Company, as the British Royal Family is known in the United Kingdom). Enrique responds well to the name he gave to his controversial memoir, additional (in Spanish In the shadow), issued a year ago, which means to replace or replace. Sometimes it’s just a parody: it’s lame, simple-minded, disrespectful and even rude. Elizabeth II even asked William to be patient with his little brother; Being second best is more complex and has a more disempowering purpose. However, Enrique here is not the terrible nice guy that many saw in the 1990s, he is more of a directionless chaos, and the image he reflects is more the one we have of him today than it was back then, when he was England’s favourite. orphan . William even told his brother not to dare compare himself to Diana of Wales: “Because of what she went through, she was much worse.” Another thing is to take care of him, his grandmother or his father.

This season the heir seems more freed and less tormented, now without Diana and less dependent on the characters of Isabel and Philip, Prince of Edinburgh. Imelda Staunton, in her portrayal of the Queen, is the spirit of the season, along with Dominic West as Charles and Elizabeth Debicki in her version of the Princess of Wales. All three have been nominated for Golden Globes, and the series is also up for Best Drama, in addition to the Emmys. It is the final touch, and the last awards that the series will witness.

This much-loved B-side of the monarchy is also present this season: from Elizabeth II on horseback or haunted by her worries and daydreams – the part that begins the second act of the series is noteworthy, as she imagines herself being dethroned by Tony Blair – to Princess Margaret’s Caribbean adventures, which also has its own exciting episode this season. As the king says in one episode, “People don’t come to the palace to see what they have at home.” No, people want to see from their homes what is happening in those other homes that are palaces. Over the course of 60 chapters, Morgan allows us a glimpse into his living rooms and kitchens, his toilets and stables, and here, as he promised, his work concludes. It doesn’t seem likely that there will be a seventh season, as many have requested, to scrutinize the final decades of the world’s most famous and fascinating monarchies. not now. He actually gave her the end of the round.

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