Six seasons. Seven decades of British history. Three actresses — Claire Foy, Olivia Colman, and Imelda Staunton — each playing Elizabeth II at a different stage of her reign. Peter Morgan's Netflix epic tracks the monarchy from her coronation through Diana's death, treating the Crown less as subject than as a weight that warps every person who carries it. Opulent, meticulously researched, and — despite its Windsors — quietly republican in spirit.
