The Hollow Crown ended with the fourth play in the series, Henry V . It was brilliant, like the whole series, and it was great to see Henry V in sequence after the two Henry IV's.  I've seen Henry V several times, and the Falstaff and Mistress Quickly scene at the beginning doesn't make much sense in a stand alone Henry V. I thought framing the play with the funeral at beginning and end was a fine device.  At first I was puzzled when a woman in black, who I couldn't identify, turned up at the beginning, but at the end you see her again and it makes sense.  By then you have enjoyed her as the radiant, playful Princess Katherine with rippling golden hair and a pale blue. girlish dress, and now she is transformed into a braided, draped piece of mourning and motherhood.  The adventures and romance of Henry were glorious, but short-lived. Henry V is a play with a fantastic action hero at its centre and so there were plenty of shots of Henry galloping on a white horse, his cloak flying behind him. Tom Hiddleston looked right -- the director had left off the usual pudding basin haircut -and was a young man full of energy and warmth, surrounded by a posse of capable old codgers (all excellent, and Paul Freeman as Erpingham was perfect in his smiling delivery).  Henry is an epitome of Rudyard Kipling's If -- he walks with kings (he is one) and