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Catherine the Great - Season 1
It is a series of drama that epitomizes the story of Catherine, a powerful woman in Russia. Catherine had the highest power throughout Russia for nearly half of the 18th century. At that time, Catherine was thoughtful, intelligent to the point of being able to be sexually liberated, and she was the modern woman of the time.
17 July 1969, Winton, Queensland, Australia
4 August 1943, Ilford, Essex, England, UK
23 January 1962, Albury, New South Wales, Australia
11 September 1987, Siauliai, Lithuanian SSR, USSR [now Lithuania]
1965, Clapham, London, England, UK
29 February 1952, London, England, UK
17 February 1976, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK
October 04, 2019
Catherine the Great has a satisfying intricacy throughout, while the beauty and grandeur of its history certainly looks impressive...but it's the courageous truth at the heart of Mirren's performance that sets it apart.
October 04, 2019
The parts are all good - the scenery, the performances, the script - but they add up to slightly less than their sum. Perhaps it is the extra exposition that makes it feel too ponderous and prevents it from taking flight.
October 04, 2019
Catherine's not quite great, yet, but she's very good.
October 07, 2019
Stars Helen Mirren, who is marvellous. That should do you. That's your reason to watch, right there. But as I must expand, I shall also tell you it's fun, it's sexy, has a clever script and covers a period in history that hasn't been done to death.
October 03, 2019
Helen Mirren has proved herself once again as one of the greatest actors of her, and any, generation. Lavish and compelling, it explores love and loss through what seems to be the romance of its time and is a joy to watch.
September 26, 2019
Catherine the Great is the historical drama series I've been waiting for; massive, lush, beautiful, and with an element that's so often missing in big dramas about major figures: incredibly human.
October 04, 2019
Catherine The Great is an attempt to splice the historical grandeur of The Crown... It achieves that, with sumptuous sets and costumes, and a galloping pace of palace rumpy-pumpy that would tax a warren full of rabbits on Viagra.
October 03, 2019
The producers and commissioning editors made a decision that their heroine would be older - much older - on screen than she was in real life. Has this happened before? I can't think that it has... and really, it is quite fantastic: game-changing, almost.
October 07, 2019
A superficial, but effective series. [Full Review in Spanish]
October 07, 2019
It is gloriously shot, the landscapes a wash of crimson and gold, the interiors burnished, every luxurious plate of food a glistening still life. Yet realism intrudes, often.
September 27, 2019
Fabulous as the sets are, they pale next to the magnificence of Helen Mirren, looking as creamily ageless as though she's bathed in all the caviar of Lake Baikal.
October 03, 2019
This series isn't just a vehicle for [Helen Mirren], it's a golden carriage. She is sumptuously dressed and adoringly, luminously photographed in great palaces in Russia. It's an amazing spectacle but Mirren easily dominates it.
