The Crown season three review - Olivia Colman spreads regal rage on toast
(The Guardian Culture News)

Netflix´s stately saga returns with 10 cracking episodes, a top-notch cast - and a new queen taking her frustrations out on the breakfastWe open with some angry marmalading. The 38-year-old queen (Olivia Colman, replacing Claire Foy) has seen the updated profile pictures for the stamps´n´money, reflecting her transition from novice monarch to `settled sovereign`, as her private secretary delicately puts it, and is taking her feelings out on the toast. It´s as expressive as the top Windsor is allowed to get.The Crown is back for its third season, starting in 1964 and ending 13 years later with the silver jubilee. There´s a lot to get through and it wastes no time doing so, while somehow never going at more than a very stately pace indeed. A royal´s trick if ever there was one. Continue reading...