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    'The Crown' Gets A Fresh Polish

    The cast has changed, but the formula — i.e., heavy hangs the (figure)head that wears the crown — remains comfortingly intact.
    by Glen Weldon Nov 15, 2019 3 minutes
    The royal We may not be amused, but you will be: Olivia Colman is Elizabeth in <em>The Crown</em> Season 3.

    The third season of The Crown drops on Netflix on Sunday, November 17th.

    "One just has to get on with it."

    That's Elizabeth II (played by Olivia Colman, taking over from Claire Foy), in the first scene of The Crown's third season. She's addressing her assistants, there, who have just unveiled to her the more-current portrait of the Queen set to replace her younger self on a postage stamp.

    Except, she isn't really addressing . She's talking to herself, in the resigned, practical, stiff-upper-lip manner that the series ascribes to her. This is 's Elizabeth — grounded, unflashy, unexpressive, a portrait in thwarted desire and strangled emotion. Colman slips into Foy's sensible brown shoes easily, her large, expressive eyes constantly struggling to keep from betraying her thoughts. But Colman's so good at keeping Elizabeth fully present in any given scene that the roiling going on below her surface politesse becomes as much 's subject as that studied, implacable surface itself.

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