The Crown...Im not feeling it

[Yankydoodledandy]

Was so looking forward to series 5 and well I think it's abit bland. Loved 1-4 but I cant put my finger on it, but Im not enjoying. Anyone else

I agree. Watched episode 1. Then switched to a repeat of Motherland 😂

Yeah I dont even want to binge it.
Princess Anne looks more like Princess Margaret!!!

I like it, it gets better as it goes on.

I'm feeling the same thing. I'm finding it boring. I've watched the first one and I think I'm going to abandon it.

I remember this period all too well. All sorts of stuff was happening with the Royal Family - and I'm not even that interested in them and it was gobsmacking.

I find it hard to believe that they've somehow made it a bit dull. It wasn't. And with the revelations that have come out in the 20 years since...I don't quite know how it's not more interesting.

Agreed.
I've watched it all and was disappointed. Was so looking forward to it.
There is a lot of miscasting IMO. Including The Queen, Prince Philip Charles and Anne.
Elisabeth Debicki as Diana is great though.

This is disappointing to read. DH and I have been looking forward to watching this and were going to start tonight!

I guess we'll give it a go nonetheless.

Sooooooo boring, I saw it through to the end but very disappointed

I agree but am only just getting into e.3 so hoping it warms up.

It's not great. Seasons 1 & 2 were best. Some of it is just irrelevant.

I'm not that into this season either. The casting isn't great. I have to keep reminding myself that Charles is Charles and Anne is Anne etc. Camilla seems to be the only one that I look at and instantly know who it is. The casting just seems a bit off. The story lines feel very slow and uneventful. Diana is actually annoying me and I have little sympathy for her (probably not helped by the young Diana from before setting an annoying tone). I'll watch the season and hope it gets better but I doubt I'll ever rewatch it, though I'd happily rewatch the others.

UPDATE
Well just finished The Crown. How strange how it ended. I was bored towards the end.

I had to double check I had watched all 10 episodes 🤷‍♀️

This season was terrible. I did enjoy the Sydney Johnson episode. Didn't know anything about him, so I learned something new.

I thought the same about seasons 3 and 4 but then on a re-watch I warmed to the new actors although I still don’t like how season 3 starts with Olivia Coleman reflecting on the fact that she’s now older.

With season 5 I didn’t like Anne to start with, but by the end I think it was actually good casting. Charles I just can’t believe and he barely sounds like Charles at all. Queen Mother is in it so little I don’t know why they couldn’t just cast someone who looks a bit like her..?

I think the Diana being annoying and the Charles being harshly done by is on purpose

They want us to be sympathetic to Charles clearly

They should have cast Harry Enfield from The Windsors as Charles 😁

I agree. I think the Charles and Diana stuff is all a bit boring, we have heard it all before, I'm sick of it all. It was at its best in the first two seasons.

I agree, terrible. Enjoyed the Mohamed Al-Fayed episode but the rest was appalling. Charles was so badly miscast; Camilla was the only good character really. I lived through it - as I’m sure many of us did - and it was far more dramatic IRL!

OMG me too! Actually I made it through episode 2. I'm hardcore. 🤣

YANBU OP, it's just gone off the boil. I think it doesn't help that it seems to be mostly about Imaginary Charles this season who is a 2D character based on Charles, and none of the stuff that actually matters has been covered. That Tampongate was gross and IDK why they bothered, it added nothing to the episode. It was Chekhov's Tampax.

I’m 6 episodes down and it feels like a chore 😕
What I liked until now was how the family story was mixed with contemporaneous current affairs, and domestic and world politics. Now it’s just soap opera style focus mostly just on those few people. And not even in an interesting way.
If this was Series 1, I’d never have finished it and started Series 2.

Loved Matt Smith and Tobias Menzies as Prince Philip, however Jonathan Pryce is terrible casting.

How much is it actually about the Queen? I watched episode 1 and she didn’t seem to feature much. Does it change in the next 9?

Same. It's a bit weird this time round. All the toing and froing from one era to the next is getting in my nerves. I also don't particularly like the casting.

It's definitely lost it's sparkle for me.

I enjoyed it , but it did feel less like a well done period drama. Perhaps thats because it's a period that we all lived through though. It's easier to accept that they were depicting the 1950s properly if you weren't there!

The casting of the queen mother was odd. The Queen and Mohammed Fayed were my favourite choices. I think Fayed stole the show if I'm honest. His episodes were definitely the best.

I did think the ending was odd too. It seemed abrupt.

Have watched it all now and found it really disappointing.

• The portrayal of the family who we can’t mention because MN auto-bins the posts (PP’s special friend) - really murky ethically imo
• Diana’s constant doe-eyed sideways looks
• Mis-casting left and right
• The constant overarching metaphors as though we’re in GCSE English. Yes both the yacht and the RF are expensive old and creaky. Well done, have a biscuit.
• Odd focus of episodes, with the effect that real life is more interesting than the same period shown on screen.