The Roush Review
The Crown
The faces are different, but the regal drama has lost none of its luster
Available now, Netflix
HER MAJESTY IS not amused. Or, if she is, she rarely shows it. Same goes for the rest of the British royal family in what could be described as a season of their discontent. “It would be nice to be dazzling on occasion,” laments Queen Elizabeth, now being played in middle age with a poignant undercurrent of resigned gravity by the marvelous Olivia Colman (an Oscar winner as 18th-century Queen Anne in earlier this year).
