Netflix has released a first look at the new Prince Charles and Princess Diana in the upcoming fifth season of The Crown. The early glimpse has led to a mixed reaction to the casting choices. Some expressed approval at Diana's look, but the resounding response seemed to be that Dominic West, the latest actor to play Charles (he succeeds Josh O’Connor, who played a younger version of the prince in the last two seasons), is perhaps just too hot. Can a chiseled heartthrob like West really play someone who, in life as in the show, is meant to universally invoke feelings of rage and slime-ball recoil?
