Still one of the best series ever on Netflix: Season 3 of The Crown

Season 3 of Peter Morgan's terrific series, The Crown, picks up where Season 2 ended, w/ the necessary changes, i.e., w/ an older set of actors portraying Queen Elizabeth and family - and of course the updated casting seems perfect, w/ Olivia Colman taking over seamlessly from the great Claire Foy and great performances as well from Tobias Menzies (Prince Philip),  Helena Bonham Carter (Princess Margaret), Erin Doherty as Princess Anne, and Josh O'Connor as Prince Charles as we follow the Windsors from roughly 1960 to the 25th Jubilee in 1977. This series gives us the best of British acting, writing, directing, with all 10 episodes clear and crisp, thoughtful and provocative. As with the first two seasons, the producers held back nothing on design and milieu - perfectly recreating all the lavish environments where the royals ruled and sported, down to the last detail (the flowers, the furniture, the cutlery, the oil paintings on the gallery walls, and "motor vehicles," the planes and trains, the croquet equipment - everything!). Over the course of the ten episodes we see the Queen, at last, show some flashes of tenderness and sentiment - though for most of the episodes she and the other royals are clench-jawed, cold, and viciously protective of their life of privilege. A theme throughout has been the interference with anyone in the family headed for an "unsuitable" marriage - to the ruin and despair of several members of the family. The one way in which this season falls a little short of the first two: In seasons 1 and 2 we see the gradual "education" of Queen Elizabeth, as she evolves from a young woman thrust on the world stage and initially treated like a pushover into a powerful monarch and family leader. In Season 3, she is a well-established character and personality and does not evolve any further; each episode depicts a different family/national crisis, but mosy are not centered on the Queen (the episodes on Charles - his schooling, his relationship with Camilla - are particularly moving; those on Margaret are at times comic - HBC is a great comic actress - and at times harrowing). But the season doesn't have a plot "through-line" in the same way that Seasons 1 and 2 did. Still, one of the best shows to come through Netflix in many years, and all viewers are awaiting Season 4, which will introduce Princess Diana.