The Crown Season 6 is Yet Another Victim of Netflix' Split-Release Model
The hit series is coming to an end.
When The Crown premiered on Netflix in 2016, the whole world went crazy for the British royal family, as the show's insanely high budget allowed people to peek behind the curtain of the late Queen Elizabeth's life for the first time. Since then, the show has been a huge success, delighting audiences with constant recasting and great casting choices, forcing millions to keep paying for their Netflix subscriptions to check out the latest chapter in the royal family's history.
But all good things must come to an end, and The Crown is no exception. After all, the story of the late Queen has already been almost completely covered on the show, and it looks like series creator Peter Morgan has no intention of dragging things out just for the sake of making the show longer.
Final season announced
Recently, Netflix released a teaser for the upcoming Season 6, revealing that the show will return to streaming on November 16, with actress Imelda Staunton reprising her role as the British monarch. However, fans were still very upset after seeing the teaser.
The thing is, Netflix execs decided to once again use their controversial release practice, and that didn't sit well with The Crown fandom. The teaser revealed that only four episodes of Season 6 would be released on November 16, with the remaining six episodes not available for streaming until December 14, nearly a month after the season premiered.
Splitting seasons into two batches has become a fairly popular practice among streaming services and networks in recent years, and fans hate this trend. It's obvious that Netflix decided to break The Crown Season 6 into two uneven batches just to force viewers to renew their subscriptions for another month, which will help the company make millions of dollars.
For the service that once prided itself on releasing entire seasons in one day so that fans could watch the whole story in a matter of days, such a practice certainly looks a bit shameful, don't you think?