Well the finale was bad. They did do the death of Margaret but nothing about Philip or Elizabeth? Like they lived happily ever after? They could've handled the final episodes so much better. Really sad about the missed opportunity. The series was great but it deserved a way better ending
I actually thought it was lovely. The ending was very moving.
Superb show, one of the best I have watched. I cant rate this high enough. The costumes, the locations, the brilliant photography and sets, Stunning. People are iffy about the ending, but for me it made perfect sense. Each of the "past" queens coming back that shows the life the queen had took, the end scene with them all appearing, the queen seeing her own regalia on the coffin and the lone piper. Very emotional ending to a brilliant series.
An emotional end to a truly spectacular series. Well done!
All hail to Imelda Stainton.
Every fiber, sound, hair and muscle was brilliantly executed. What a beautiful episode.
10++++
Wow... what an ending. Just finished the story perfectly. Other than the episode dedicated to Tony Bair - which could have been skipped entirely, this season has been as good as it's ever been.
10/10
Honestly, was expecting a bit more for the ending. The whole last season just felt a little flat. Maybe the death of the actual queen made them go a bit too soft? It just didn't feel as grand or intricate as the past seasons, and the constant use of "ghosts" speaking to characters got a bit ridiculous. Overall however, it was a great series that I will probably be rewatching at some point in the future.
The ending seems rushed and incomplete.
After spending an entire episode on Willsmania, which had no point, and the topic was brought up again two episodes later, the last episode ended up covering too much but there was so much more to tell. We could’ve had an episode on ‘Waity Katie’ and how they prepared her compared to Diana, on Will and Kate marriage (which made the Queen so happy), on how the Tories came back into power and led to Brexit (which the Queen didn’t support), the Queen’s speech during Covid (which was one of her most remarkable), her humour with Paddington bear or the opening of London’s Olympic Games, Prince Philip’s death, her final jubilee and finally her death.
The Queen seemed too soft in this last part, more grandmother than Queen. Her thinking of abdicating was a ridiculous plot, since she was never going to do it. We already had too much soap opera, we didn’t need more! In contrast, they ignored that Prince Philip didn’t attend the civil ceremony for being against the marriage. It was a nice touch to have William be realistic and in touch with the Crown needs, but ultimately Charles and Camilla marriage happened because people were fed up with the subject.
Rushed and incomplete, the final episodes fail to be a “love letter to Queen Elizabeth” as the producer wanted, but instead putting himself in good graces with the current King and with Netflix business partner, Prince Harry.
Great ending, but for this amazing show, the finale should have been superb. I honestly expected them to add the dead of the Duke of Edinburgh and, obviously the Queen's. I mean, they had the opportunity to finish the series with her dead and it would have been the perfect ending.
The last scene was unnecessary long.
Claire Foy is mother periodt.
Terribly rushed and condensed season; transparent references to Andrew & Harry's future - the latter slightly better, the walk scene in this episode with the queen nominally asking both young princes' opinion on their father's remarriage but only actually caring for William's was I thought obvious but nevertheless quite well done. Overall just very very rushed I felt, would've rathered they cut it well short in time but kept similar pacing to previous seasons - leaving it open to a reboot to resume catching up even.
I've put it off as long as I could, but the end is here. The most satisfying ending, to a most bittersweet final season, to one of the most emotional shows, and dare I say, the most well acted show ever. Gonna miss the incredible writing and performances, majestic set design and cinematography, heart-wrenching and uplifting music... gonna miss it all.
Loved the show but hated the ending how are you going to skip 17 years. One of the worst endings to a show ever
Love the series hated the ending we'll go down as one of the worst endings in a show history how are you just going to skip 20 years of the Queen's life I don't get it
i think imelda staunton's portrayal of the queen was too good, in the sense that i was sad to see her/her portrayl go, since i didn't care too much for her IRL. but i also kept getting distracted by the thought that there's no way she emoted this much in real life. i'm probably just biased though.
one thing's for sure - this series has cemented and deepened my dislike of prince philip. and it's really interesting the direction they took harry. i get they wanted to show the "roots" of his "disdain" for it all, especially knowing what happens w/him and meghan, but i feel like it went too far? like someone else said, they did him dirty.
So here we are at last. This episode feels like a very fitting end to one of the best TV shows ever made. It‘s quite a slow burn but Elizabeth at almost 80 years old reflecting on her whole life and what‘s still to come is a just a very good way to end the show imo. Also bringing Claire Foy and Olivia Colman back was a genius move. I‘ve immensely enjoyed watching this interpretation of the late Queen Elizabeth‘s life over the last years and now that it’s over I will miss it quite a bit. Fortunately one can always start a rewatch.
Honestly, this episode was kind of boring. I liked the Charles and Camilla stuff - but that penitence prayer... please, what hypocritical crap. Elizabeth should have put her foot down, and not let those clergymen with all their self-righteousness decide. Harry's despising Camilla, his Nazi costume... okay, that just reinforced my thinking that that boy has needed some serious therapy.
Could have done without that funeral planning - a bit macabre. And the imaginary talks with her younger selfs. I'd have liked flashbacks or scenes in the past better than those talks about whether to abdicate or not. In the end, the speech at the wedding, while at times funny, returned the more humanized version of Elizabeth of the last couple of episodes back to the stiff duty comes before everything-woman and it shamed Charles to a certain extent. But it's led back right to the beginning, I suppose, and, other than ending with Elizabeth's death, this is a good way to end this series.
(And it's good that it's ending because the last couple of seasons were declining in quality - and rising in gossipping and soap opera aspects.)
Wow, that was a great ending,
Review by moonilismBlockedParentSpoilers2023-12-18T11:22:09Z
I cried so much this season. I think it was an unexpected place to end the show but they pulled it off gracefully, imo. The queen's unwavering determination to do the job she's been tasked with has been the through-line drawn across all the seasons and they doubled down on it in this ending in a very touching way. It's bittersweet, almost all bitter: you feel how truly alone she is and the absence of the person she could have been without this great burden. But she has support in her husband, who believes she is the only one fit for the job, as well as the nation's. And that has to be enough.
On a lighter note, they did Harry kind of dirty. I don't know if it was the casting, the script, the editing or all of the above, but aside from his only plot line being the Nazi costume, this last episode especially felt like Harry's villain origin story :laughing:. He was shooting death glares left, right and centre and looked like he was plotting to kill William at more than one point hahaha. Meanwhile this show has also been very gracious to Charles. Overall I'm sad to see it end, but it did have to at some point because it was starting to get uncomfortably close to the present day.