Here's why everyone is obsessed with 'The Great' on Hulu.
I’ll admit it: When my friends suggested we watchon Hulu together virtually this weekend, I rolled my eyes. During a moment of global stress and anxiety, I just couldn’t muster the energy to invest in another corset-constrained, modesty-exalting period drama: Give me the staticky background noise ofThe pilot’s opening scenes—in which a young Catherine the Great keels manically back and forth on a swing evoking Fragonard’s famous portrait—did nothing to erase my doubts.
Then Catherine set off to meet her new husband, Emperor Peter III of Russia , and everything changed. Fanning is delightful to watch as an anxious yet impassioned Catherine, but it’s Hoult who establishes the show’s deliberately off-kilter tone early on, greeting his new wife with a cruel dismissal and leading his army of sycophants in laughter.
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