Catherine The Great Hulu Review

Hulu s bawdy miniseries arrives in the uk on starzplay with elle fanning playing the role of the famed empress to be.

Catherine the great hulu review. Elle fanning and catherine the great. As creator of hulu s the great premiering may 15 he offers another droll raunchy yet sneakily. A review of the hulu miniseries the great starring elle fanning as catherine the great and nicholas hoult as emperor peter created by the favourite writer tony mcnamara. Grit and plotting it takes to become the storied catherine the great hulu s new series is frothy fun with a deadly dark side.

The broad strokes of catherine s story is in the great like her marriage to peter iii and the coup she engineered that brought her to power. Created by oscar nominee tony mcnamara a retelling of catherine the great extends the film s sharp anachronistic absurdity into a patchy 10 hour series. It s the details that are. Hulu takes on catherine the great in a series that s more funny than factual a new 10 part miniseries follows the exploits of the russian empress who rose to power in a coup against her own.

In some of its promotional material hulu has described its new. Photos by hulu and kunsthistorisches museum wikimedia commons. Photo illustration by slate. One of russia s most influential rulers catherine the great reigned for over 34 years.

This shouldn t come as a surprise as one of the writers of yorgos lanthimos. Hulu s new original series the great is a fun witty and irreverent show about royalty much like the favourite.