'The Crown' S4 review: Splashiest, least subtle season yet

Emma Corrin plays Princess Diana in Season Four of 'The Crown'. Photos: Handout

Halfway through the first episode of The Crown's fourth season, Prince Charles (Josh O'Connor) goes to see his father, Prince Philip (Tobias Menzies).

Both men, though generally incapable of expressing emotion in anything resembling a human way, are fiercely grieving the untimely death of Dickie Mountbatten (Charles Dance), a stable figure who meant a great deal to them both in the absence of their own fathers showing them any real affection.