The Crown · Season 3 · Netflix
The Crown Season 3
The Crown Season 3 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 8.3/10. 10 episodes on Netflix from 17 November 2019.
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What BollyAI Thinks
The full cast change - Colman for Foy, Menzies for Smith, Coleman for Lithgow as Churchill - was the show's highest-stakes gamble and it landed. Colman's Elizabeth was warmer, more comedically tinged, and the writing shifted accordingly toward absurdism as a pressure valve for the institution's cruelties. The Aberfan episode is the season's peak: the Queen's delayed visit to the disaster and the political calculus behind it, handled with devastating restraint. 90% on Rotten Tomatoes validated the transition.
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Standout Episodes
The hours worth arguing about - premieres, finales, and the turning points. BollyAI reads the room episode by episode.
- E1Olding7.6
A sharp opener where portraits, protocol and treason turn image management into a slow institutional panic.
Full review of E1 → - E2Margaretology8.2
Margaret turns bad manners into statecraft, and the episode smartly asks why the Crown only values her in crisis.
Full review of E2 → - E3Aberfan8.7
A grave, disciplined hour where royal protocol meets Aberfan’s grief and discovers that presence is part of duty.
Full review of E3 → - E4Bubbikins7.6
The episode ties pay politics to PR control, and Alice’s removal exposes the documentary as a managed truth, not a window.
Full review of E4 → - E5Coup8.3
The hour treats economic pain and constitutional talk as the coup’s fuel, and Cecil King’s sympathy becomes the knife’s handle.
Full review of E5 → - E6Tywysog Cymru7.9
A ceremonially “unchanged” investiture collides with enforced Welsh duty, and the hour uses silences to make every proclamation feel unstable.
Full review of E6 → - E7Moondust7.7
The moon missions land as a moral yardstick, and Dean Woods’s zeal is both inspiring and trapped in the plea.
Full review of E7 → - E8Dangling Man7.8
An emergency diagnosis becomes a diplomacy schedule, and the polo and party fantasies expose how control fails when time does.
Full review of E8 → - E9Imbroglio7.6
The episode turns proclamations and blockade policy into one system of control, then pays it off by forcing Charles away from Camilla.
Full review of E9 → - E10Cri de Coeur8.3
The hour weaponizes loyalty like policy, then undermines it with identity doubt and Margaret’s failing agency, leaving the monarchy exposed.
Full review of E10 →
Season Over Season
A smooth handover - the Colman era starts with the show's creative confidence fully intact.