‘The Great’ Season 2
Hulu’s The Great Season 2 is a devilish delight, reuniting stars Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult for even more outrageous hijinks in Czarist Russia. The Great is a witty, sexy, almost completely ahistorical retelling of Catherine the Great’s rise to glory. In Season 1, Catherine was a naive newlywed disgusted by the brutal Moscow court. In The Great Season 2, Catherine has successfully pulled off a coup, taking the throne for herself. The Great sagely breaks from history to keep Hoult’s ridiculously fun Peter alive and in Catherine’s way. As it happens, by season’s end, Peter might be, once again, Catherine’s biggest problem, albeit in a whole new dramatic way…