Really dug the casting decisions this season, but Olivia Colman wasn't given nearly enough to do. That makes sense and all - she's the queen, she's got to maintain that stiff upper lip, and if you give Olivia Colman an inch of humor to work with she'll stretch it into a goddamn mile - but it still felt kind of weird that a show about a British queen would literally re-cast the queen using the reigning Academy Award winner for Best Actress, who won the award by playing a British queen, and let her play second fiddle to like, Helena Bonham Carter.
This season's secret weapon is Erin Doherty's Princess Anne. Its secret shame is that actually the monarchy is bad. I still like the idea of the series as a whole - a sprawling later-twentieth century period piece, kind of, that picks and chooses which years and scandals and crises to highlight on an episode by episode basis. Can't wait for the Season 6 episode about Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein! (They won't, right? But they have to, right?)
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