“The Crown” Season 5 is fastly approaching its premiere on Netflix.
Ahead of its arrival on the platform, a royal expert shared some thoughts about the material, including the British Royal Family’s “biggest problem” toward the current installments of the series.
Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, Katie Nicholl asserted that the current seasons of the Netflix series are “about people who are still alive today.” She also stated that the events in the plot “still feel very current because they’re constantly still making headlines” despite them happening 25 years ago.
The royal expert, who authored “The New Royals,” noted that this is the “biggest problem” the British Royals, alongside the critics of the show, have with the series.
She added, “Those early [seasons] felt like there was enough history, felt like there was enough distance.” But, in the case of the new and upcoming installments, like the fifth season, she said they feel “uncomfortably close.”
Nicholl continued during the exchange with ET that, with this at hand, in addition to “all the media hype and the attention” that “The Crown” has been receiving, “it wouldn’t surprise me at all if this is the biggest rated [season] for the series, in terms of viewing figures.”
On Thursday, Netflix dropped the official trailer for “The Crown” Season 5. The material has seemingly given its fans and avid viewers the official first look at the new cast members playing their characters.
Reports said that the change in the cast is to reflect the aging processes of the characters following the years depicted in the plot. The show first welcomed new faces in Season 3, which premiered in 2016.
BuzzFeed, in a report published Thursday, noted that the plot of Season 5 largely covers the ‘90s. It said it is a decade described as the British Royal Family’s “biggest challenge to date,” considering all the political and personal events the members faced.
Earlier in the exchange with ET, Katie Nicholl shared her thoughts on how the British Royals, especially Prince Harry and Prince William, would likely feel about “The Crown” Season 5.
She believes that the material “is going to be quite uncomfortable viewing” for them, particularly the “scenes leading up to their mother’s death.”
The royal expert explained that it is a period that the royal-born Princes, alongside the rest of the British Royal Family, “had to live out so publicly.”
Accordingly, for those events to be revisited and "be brought up all over again," she stated it is “incredibly hard” for the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Sussex, “even if it’s done tastefully.”