Review: 'The Crown' shines brighter than ever in Season 3
by Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times
Nov 04, 2019
4 minutes
Apollo 11 lifts off from Cape Canaveral, and for a minute, Prince Phillip (Tobias Menzies) has something in common with everyone else on the planet: He's glued to the TV. He watches as the spacecraft breaks free of Earth's orbit, relishing the astronaut's freedom, feeling the full weight of the crown.
Sixties-era liberation movements - on Earth and in the sky - test the royals' suffocating sense of duty, tradition and public service in Season 3 of Netflix's "The Crown." The juxtaposition is not an entirely new one for the series, which premiered in 2016 with Claire Foy as the young Queen
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