Diana dies in the final season of The Crown, but that doesn’t mean she leaves.
So vital has the Princess of Wales become to the Netflix drama that the show can’t manage without her: she appears as a sort of ghost, materialising on the plane home from Paris to comfort a distraught Prince of Wales, and on the sofa at Balmoral to give the Queen some friendly PR advice.
If that sounds like an act of desperation on the part of writer Peter Morgan – well, it is.
He has written himself into a corner by bringing The Crown into 1997 and one of the most extensively covered events in British history.
There is nothing we don’t know about the Princess’s death and the Royal family’s reaction to it, which leaves Morgan casting around for something to fill the episodes.
Perhaps he is all out of ideas, having addressed this same period of time in his 2006 film, The Queen.
But something has gone wrong, because creatively the show has atrophied.
The Crown completes its demolition job on the late Queen’s character, a six-series arc which has taken us from Claire Foy’s bright young woman to Imelda Staunton’s sour old boot.
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***Warning, this review contains spoilers***
**From The Telegraph’s Anita Singh:**
Diana dies in the final season of The Crown, but that doesn’t mean she leaves.
So vital has the Princess of Wales become to the Netflix drama that the show can’t manage without her: she appears as a sort of ghost, materialising on the plane home from Paris to comfort a distraught Prince of Wales, and on the sofa at Balmoral to give the Queen some friendly PR advice.
If that sounds like an act of desperation on the part of writer Peter Morgan – well, it is.
He has written himself into a corner by bringing The Crown into 1997 and one of the most extensively covered events in British history.
There is nothing we don’t know about the Princess’s death and the Royal family’s reaction to it, which leaves Morgan casting around for something to fill the episodes.
Perhaps he is all out of ideas, having addressed this same period of time in his 2006 film, The Queen.
But something has gone wrong, because creatively the show has atrophied.
The Crown completes its demolition job on the late Queen’s character, a six-series arc which has taken us from Claire Foy’s bright young woman to Imelda Staunton’s sour old boot.
**Read the full review here:** https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/the-crown-season-6-netflix-review/
American reviews: This show is still good, enjoy Ghost Diana.
British reviews: HOW DARE THEY HAVE GHOST DIANA THE KING IS MOST DISPLEASED.