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The Great (TV Series)

The Great

2020

Tony McNamara (Creator), Matt Shakman

Elle Fanning, Nicholas Hoult, Sacha Dhawan, Charity Wakefield ...

7.2

1,378

TV Series. Comedy TV Series (2020-2023). 3 Seasons. 30 Episodes. The series charts the rise to power of Catherine the Great (Elle Fanning) and her explosive relationship with husband Peter (Nicholas Hoult), the emperor of Russia.

	Author	Review
United States	Carly Lane Collider	"[3rd Season Review]: what 'The Great' has going for it is what it always has — staggeringly good performances, constantly evolving relationships, and characters who end up in wildly surprising places"	POS
United States	Lacy Baugher Paste Magazine	"[3rd Season Review]: Darker and more mature"	POS
United States	Nick Schager The Daily Beast	"[3rd Season Review]: it remains TV’s most delightful carnival of bloodshed and sex (...) Fanning and Hoult have never been better in Hulu’s primal period comedy, which is as savage, daffy, and horny as ever in Season 3"	POS
United States	Matthew Gilbert Boston Globe	"[3rd Season Review]: Playful, deeply irreverent, twisted, moving, and, this season, defined by one or two powerful twists, 'The Great' is true to its title"	POS
United States	Valerie Ettenhofer Film School Rejects	"[3rd Season Review]: Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult are as good as ever in the third season of 'The Great', but some of the show's cyclical plots are running on fumes"	NEU
United States	Saloni Gajjar AV Club	"[3rd Season Review]: it makes a triumphant return (...) Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult continue to craft one of TV's most fascinating romances"	POS
United States	Marshall Shaffer The Playlist	"[3rd Season Review]: it gets grim, stays good in season 3"	POS
United States	Adam Lock Ready Steady Cut	"[3rd Season Review]: Endlessly entertaining, with a script that is fast-paced, witty, and crude. Elle Fanning is just stunning as always, surrounded by a cast of comedians at the top of their game (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Radhika Menon Decider	"[3rd Season Review]: Fanning and Hoult are as winning as ever, and the series wastes no time diving back into its playful retelling of one of Russia’s most famous monarch couples"	POS
United States	Belen Edwards Mashable	"[3rd Season Review]: McNamara, Fanning, and Hoult have once again proven that the 'occasionally true story' of Catherine the Great is truly a delight —and that yes, it is possible to make a great show even greater"	POS
United States	Erin Maxwell Village Voice	"[3rd Season Review]: [It] delivers emotional turmoil more devastating than seen in previous years. Though The Great has always been outlandish and entertaining, Fanning and Hoult take their reigns glorious and great new heights"	POS
United Kingdom	Rebecca Nicholson The Guardian	"[3rd Season Review]: 'The Great' continues to be a rich treat of a drama (...) This is bawdy, anarchic fun, still as smart as it is wilfully anachronistic. Huzzah! (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Valerie Ettenhofer Film School Rejects	"[2nd Season Review]: ruthless, funny, and relentlessly entertaining (...) The Great works hard to keep us from growing attached to any of its fallible characters, but like Catherine with Peter, we might come to love them despite ourselves"	POS
United States	Saloni Gajjar AV Club	"[2nd Season Review]: the period dramedy returns with biting humor and a big heart (...) he show continues to comment on the political landscape of the past and the present with sparkling wit"	POS
United States	Kathryn VanArendonk Vulture	"[2nd Season Review]: The Brutal, Bloody, Bawdy, Beautiful Return of The Great (...) Catherine spends a good portion of the season pregnant, and it’s one of the most idiosyncratic and tonally effective TV pregnancies in recent memory."	POS
United States	Daniel Hart Ready Steady Cut	"[2nd Season Review]: The Great season 2 sells its worth far stronger than its predecessor. At a meaty ten episodes, it’s surprising that it leaves viewers wanting more (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Marshall Shaffer The Playlist	"[2nd Season Review]: the series’ second season only further confirms its strengths lie in silliness rather than seriousness (...) a show at war with itself."	NEU
United States	Allison Keene Paste Magazine	"[2nd Season Review]: The series is a strange, funny, ridiculous, trundling carnival of ideas, genres, and characters. It is great in both size and quality"	POS
United States	Caroline Framke Variety	"[1st Season Review]: A wickedly entertaining piece of historical fudging that lays bare the myopic nature of aristocracy (...) The cast is uniformly strong"	POS
United States	Inkoo Kang The Hollywood Reporter	"[1st Season Review]: Despite stellar performances by Fanning and Hoult, 'The Great' (...) never quite adds up to a coherent whole."	NEU
United States	Hoai-Tran Bui SlashFilm	"[1st Season Review]: Despite some of the tonal and pacing issues of The Great, it’s still a thoroughly enjoyable historical comedy, if a bit lighter on the satire than expected"	POS
United States	Kristen Lopez IndieWire	"[1st Season Review]: [It] doesn’t exactly live up to the title. Fanning and crew work wonders, but it’s unclear who this series is aimed at (...) And if you enjoyed 'The Favourite' this feels like a watered-down distillation of what made that movie work so perfectly."	NEG
United States	Delia Harrington Den of Geek	"[1st Season Review]: The whole endeavor is more fun if you throw yourself into the chaotic vibe of hot people having sex, plotting against one another, having an occasional bout of feminist thought, and killing people (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Marshall Shaffer The Playlist	"[1st Season Review]: While the show contains a multitude of compelling moments (...) it never fully stakes out a claim for its identity (...) It also does not help matters that the show’s humor lies squarely in the realm of the juvenile"	NEU
United Kingdom	Lucy Mangan The Guardian	"[1st Season Review]: Boo to historical accuracy. Hooray to the great comedy cast and script, and watching a ruthless young woman coming up on the inside lane (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Joel Keller Decider	"[1st Season Review]: 'The Great' tries to be irreverent and funny but fails on both accounts. In fact, some of what passes for jokes on this show is downright painful to watch because it’s so dark and mean-spirited."	NEG
United States	Allison Keene Paste Magazine	"[1st Season Review]: A really beautiful journey, punctuated by completely absurd events. It’s strange and wonderful and a fantastically funny ride"	POS
United States	Alan Sepinwall Rolling Stone	"[1st Season Review]: Elle Fanning is fantastic (...) She nails every beat of [the role], and is never less than intensely watchable (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Louis Chilton The Independent	"[1st Season Review]: The story it tries to tell is urgent and, at heart, truthful (...) There is drama, and pathos, baked into Catherine’s story (...) and scenes are strengthened by a solid supporting cast (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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