The first season of
The Great largely lived up the title, cataloguing how Catherine The Great (Elle Fanning) first arrived in Russia and began her slow rise to power as the wife of mercurial Emperor Peter (Nicholas Hoult). With the addition of Gillian Anderson as Catherine s mother, it has the potential to reach beyond that.
Created by
The Favourite co-writer Tony McNamara, the second season will pick up (spoiler alert if you ve yet to watch the first) where we left off, with Catherine making her first attempt to seize control of the country.
Anderson will be Joanna, a glamorous socialite from Germany, sometimes also known as the “maestro of marriage” for her abilities to arrange high profile partnerships for her daughters. She has heard rumors of her daughter’s coup and come to Russia to see it for herself. Though the apple of Catherine’s eye and a doting mother, it soon becomes clear Johanna has more sinister intentions to save her family’s reputation.
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Created and executive produced by Academy Award® and Golden Globe® nominee Tony McNamara (The Favourite), “The Great” is a satirical, comedic drama and occasionally true story about the rise of Catherine the Great (Elle Fanning) from outsider to the longest reigning female ruler in Russia’s history.
Created and executive produced by Academy Award
® and Golden Globe
® nominee Tony McNamara (The Favourite),
TV guide: 18 of the best shows to watch this week Ireland’s Fittest Family, Operation Transformation, Marian Finucane documentary and Elle Fanning in The Great
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Elle Fanning plays Catherine, a naive, intrepid German from a family of minor nobility, who arrives in Moscow to marry her second cousin, the Emperor Peter (Nicholas Hoult). But horrors! Peter is an entitled brat, who treats women as sexual objects and thinks that all his jokes are hilarious.
Naturally, Catherine the Snowflake is outraged. She s even more appalled to realise that none of the women in Peter s court is allowed to read. Women are for seeding, not reading, snorts Peter. This is 1745 – has he never heard of gender equality?
This ten-part series, which first aired on the streaming video channel Hulu (owned by Disney) last May, is billed as a comedy-drama. Sample gag, from Emperor Peter: I do not like all the limbless soldiers in the palace. It casts a pall over the balls if they can t dance. That s about as good as it gets.
Loki (
and
The Winter Soldier is also due to land on the platform, making 2021 a plum year for Marvel fans). Tom Hiddleston reprises his role from the film series, while Owen Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Sasha Lane co-star.
Loki is expected to be released in May, and will consist of six episodes. It will be part of Phase Four of the MCU, for those taking notes. Loki is brought to the mysterious Time Variance Authority organisation after stealing the Tesseract. He travels through time, altering history as he goes.
Lord of the Rings
Amazon Prime, date TBC
According to industry lore, an eye-watering $1bn is being spent on brining JRR Tolkien’s universe to life once more. Production picked up again in New Zealand in September. The series is due to take place during the second age of Middle Earth, thousands of years before the time in which the