'The Crown' shines in its final season — just remember it's not the History Channel
The Crown shifts seamlessly from highly accurate depictions to invented moments. In its sixth season, deeply personal scenes once again may make viewers wonder if what they're seeing really happened.
(Be warned: this review discusses key details from the first four episodes of The Crown's sixth and final season)
From the opening scene in the first episode — with cars speeding down a Paris street moments before sounds of an off-screen crash — The Crown makes plain that its sixth and final season will finally depict a seismic moment.
Namely, the 1997 deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed, and their driver in a car accident while fleeing paparazzi.
Along the way, the season's first four episodes deftly reflect the series' ongoing examination of the tension between the royal family's
