The fifth season works, but only just. | Review by michaelidato
. And Jonathan Pryce, who now plays Prince Philip, says such a disclaimer goes without saying. The danger forThe strength ofhas always resided in the way writer Peter Morgan weaves the personal with the political, blending the foibles of Elizabeth and Philip, and Margaret, Anne and Charles, with historic events: the American state visits, the Aberfan mining disaster, the assassination of Mountbatten and the exile of the former king Edward VIII, among others.
Perhaps the problem is fatigue. The fifth and sixth seasons of the show were always going to be a harder sell than the first and second. And selling the second entire change of cast is exponentially harder than it was the first time around.
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