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I've heard so many good things about The Great ever since it first came out a few years ago but I kept putting it off for some reason. I'm just finishing Season 2 now and I'm actually mad at myself for putting it off for so long. It's freaking hilarious! There's not a weak link on the entire cast but Nicholas Hoult and Belinda Bromilow are the ones that really make this series so good. Hoult & Elle Fanning were both nominated for Emmy's for their work here but Bromilow should've been too. It's obviously not historically accurate, it even says it in the beginning credits, but who cares? It's a comedy. If you want to laugh then go watch this.

The Great was so much better than I expected it to be. I went into it not expecting much but after a few episodes I couldn't stop watching it. I binged all three seasons as fast as I could. I promise you that you'll laugh out loud at least a few times every episode. While the entire cast is good in this is, Nicholas Hoult is the best part of this show. Every time he talks he made made me laugh. He also has the best character arc on the show. You go from not liking his character to rooting for him. Hoult is already a star from other stuff he's done but this takes him to another level. If you're looking for a new show to just have good time then this is it.

While apparently even historically inaccurate compared to an old Marlene Dietrich movie, The Great is a fantastically entertaining piece of nonsense with Elle Fanning giving a quirky, very funny performance as Catherine and Nicholas Hoult giving a funny, infuriating one as Peter (also a shout out to Phoebe Fox's snarky servant).

The series is consistently entertaining, generally funny, sometimes shocking or horrific, and often just plain nuts. Catherine is an interesting character, both smart and foolish, both strategic and inept, but always moving forward with a blind, frequently insane determination. She's not always sympathetic, and her mistakes are costly, but she's never less than fascinating.

The last episode is a little confusing, and ends on a cliffhanger which doesn't help, but overall the series is wonderful and I look forward to seeing how it all plays out in the next season.

I love the history of Catherine the Great, and this isn't it. However it is hilarious, smart, sarcastic, and almost resembling her story.

I wanted to hate it, but I loved it. I hope they keep it going.

This has been one of the best shows of the year. I binged watched it over the weekend and it was great. It is loosely based on history but has an entertaining twist and the ending cries for a second season. Elle Fanning does a great job as well as the other characters. Some you immediately like, some you hate but all of them grow on you as the season progresses.

The way how they play and remastering the history is genius! As being Russian, I find this show absurdly brilliant and funny. That's interesting to follow how the show is portraying current narratives with well known facts from 18 century, as it all together creates absolutely masterpiece satire Universe!

Great acting, costumes, picture and the soundtrack! I find it a bit similar to Sofia Coppola´s Marie Antoinette, which is also my fave :) Thanks for refreshing and please throw us the new season asap. Hazzah!

Who the hell cares if this show is not historically correct? This isn't the History Channel, this is a comedy. I've seen far too many period pieces take themselves far too seriously. It's a genre well-trodden, but hardly ever done with wit like this.

If you can't see that this is the funniest show on television, your sense of humor must be broken.

First off, the good; Great writing, acting, sets... extremely entertaining. Fun even. Well above average.

The bad; Was there anything here historically accurate beyond a Russian emperor named Catherine that took over and ruled Russia? I didn't see much. And so much of the inaccuracy was pointless and unnecessary... like Peter's father died when he was quite young, and he wasn't Peter the Great. It was his grandfather. And it doesn't stop there... For those of us who enjoy History and historical fiction, it was a bit odd and detracted from the immersion.

The profanity; I'm no prude and have no issues with the F bomb, but some of the later episodes had dialogue where it was nearly every other word. Again, this detracts from the immersion. It's jarring.

Political correctness; I have no issues with multi cultural actors. It is called acting for a reason. But painting an empire that had already had female leaders as some sort of boy's club that needed saving by idealistic young Catherine? Not even close to real, and again, slightly annoying. Catherine was a tomboy, loved horses, shooting, hunting, etc. She was not a dainty little thing dreaming about art and education. That movement had already been started in Russia years earlier, some of which was expanded by Peter, and some subsequently rescinded by Catherine.

I did like the way they explained the old gossip about her sleeping with her horse. Clever, and could very likely be what happened in reality.

With just a bit more effort in the writing to be true to History and the actual characters, this could've easily been a 9 or 10. I'm not expecting 100% accuracy, but something higher than 5% would've been nice.

This show went massively downhill. So many of the episodes in S3 were just all over the place and had just random crap happening.

I had a few laughs here and there throughout the season, but overall, it pales in comparison to S1 and S2.

There was no overarching main storyline that was actually interesting/intriguing to keep you captivated and caring about the characters...

It's almost like a completely different show.

Also nice one completely ripping off the dumb Wednesday dance at the end of the final ep. I guess the writers were like oh that weird quirky dance was really well received, lets also do that. It was just extremely lame and cringe.

"Occasionally true". More like perpetually bad. The acting (except the Emperor), writing art direction, all terrible. So far removed from historical reality that it should have been better being an animated cartoon or something. I understand the need for diversity in casting at large, but please, when you write about 18th century Russia, you enter a world where racial diversity was non existant, and not because of discrimination. Purely a historical / geographical setting. This show is unwatchable for Russians. The irony is that these color blind casting are actually the opposite of color blind. They are obsessed with race. And it only goes one way. How would it look if a story set in ancient Africa was using color-blind casting with white actors in tribal apparat? I'd pay to watch that haha. Ridiculous. Seriously though, you want racial diversity? Start with a story that can thrive on this.

So just to get this out of the way: this show is anything but historically accurate. If you want one more like that, Russia-1's Ekaterina is like that.

But anyways, if you really want to find this show incredibly funny, read up on the history of Catherine the Great.

Also, to the person who did the editing for Season 1 Episode 8, why would you use "The Sacred War"?! I know historical accuracy wasn't on the table, but for gods sake don't intentionally mix up the eras (The Sacred War was written in 1941).

I will never shut up about just how good this show is. Elle Fanning is stunning. Nicholas Hoult is so ridiculously charming. He deftly walks a tightrope between loathsome and lovable, I've never seen anything like it. The entire cast is exceptional but Tony McNamara's dialogue is the true star. Strong, smart female characters and friendships are the core of the show. It's feminist without being girlbossy, which is so rare. The show is exceptionally funny yet at moments so poignant. It kills me that this show is as underrated as it is. You're wasting your own time not watching it!

Quirky humour, great acting, certainly not trying to be historically accurate! Possibly the humour isn't slapstick enough for the initial reviewers. It's definitely worth the watch.

I'm old enough to remember a time when Elle Fanning was just Dakota Fanning's adorable little sister. I think we may have arrived at a time when Dakota is known as Elle's sister. Elle has done some other really good work. But she really comes into her own, and I mean into her own, with The Great. This superbly written comedy based very loosely and hilariously on the life of Catherine the Great has Elle playing her as a young woman/girl who first comes from Germany to find herself the wife of Russian Czar Peter, played with gut laughing vacuity and yet, oddly charm, by Nicholas Hoult. Catherine is a bright and well educated woman who is faced with a Russian court that is, well, neither. And from there the comedy ensues. And, while the entire cast is brilliant, the show hinges on Elle Fanning's ability to be funny. And does she ever deliver. Her timing and her performance are note perfect. I've seen her handle drama extremely well. But comedy is a different animal. It is actually very hard for an attractive person to be funny because they're just not funny to look at and we have a weird tendency to take attractive people seriously. And Elle Fanning has grown to be a very beautiful young woman. It seems odd and unfair to say that a beautiful person has anything to overcome but, when it comes to playing comedy, they really do. Comedy, to do it well, as any actor would tell you, is actually very difficult. It requires timing and pathos and just the right balance between energy and constraint. And Elle Fanning, at this young age, shows herself to be a master at it. The show itself is brilliant. Fall off your seat funny. Not titter funny but legitimately hilarious. You'd be a fool not to watch it. Or a member of the show's version of the Russian court.

This is the best series I have seen this year- no, in the past few years. The script is simply brilliant, the acting amazing (all the actors are brilliant in their roles), the dialogue smart and witty, the directing and the cinematography top-notch, and... I can't say anything bad about it. This series is absolutely brilliant and I can't wait for season 2! I truly hope more people will watch this amazing series.

This fabulous lush historical satire has far and away the sharpest dialogue of any show I can remember seeing on any platform. It is delivered mostly rapid-fire as in the screwball comedy films of the 1930s. It also has the best players delivering the lines from top to bottom of the cast. And finally, it has the most adorable chemistry between a female and male lead that I have seen since Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis as Mickey and Mallory in "Natural Born Killers" (1994)... not to mention the most bizarre chemistry between a man and his mother since Norman Bates, and the most adorable chemistry between a woman and a frog... ever... really. Plus it has a menu that would make Wolfgang Puck seethe with jealousy. And just enough sex to keep adults dull enough to be looking for something else interested.

Visually, great set and costumes. Elle Fanning and Hoult are great actors. But thats about it. All the episodes are just repetitive, the stort barely evolves at all. and even when the actors are great, one gets sick of Hoults character Peter who is just, disgusting, even if they try to make it seem its bc ge has mommy issues. And Elles character Catherine one grows super tired of aswell, the naivity and the inactions. Its just frustration, meaningless plots and a lot of thrusting. A nice package but its empty or rancid inside.

A real waste of time and also talent.

We loved seasons 1 & 2 - the writing was clever and engaging. Season 3 is a non-stop slapstick rant of sexual references and over acted personalities. At times, the tone feels more like a Mel Brooks or Monty Python film.

We are trying to make it through to episode 4 but are struggling to get there.

As always, the costume and production design are exceptional. The sets are lovely. The budget must be significant so its a shame that the writing and direction has turned a marathon-worthy series into an irritating show of silliness and nonsensical plot lines.

We are hoping for a season 4 with better writing and think we are likely to stop watching season 3 and hope for the best next year.

I wasn't sure I would like it at first, but so glad I continued to watch. Some of the best acting from the entire cast that I've ever seen. I wonder how many takes they had to do, as quite a few scenes had me literally laughing out loud! The script was written so well, sudden, unexpected bursts of vulgarity in the midst of speaking so eloquently..😂. This show is something new and different. It has inspired me so much, that I am actually taking the time to write about it....and I watch a lot of TV!!!

This occasionally true story takes its subtitle to mind-boggling levels. Very little is actually historically accurate here, but why though? Wouldn't a historically accurate version have been way more entertaining, needless to say educating?! Especially considering that Catherine is all about education, I don't really see the point in making this show so ridiculously historically inaccurate. Pretty much nothing is accurate here, least of all, of course, the casting - it would have been more fun to actually see Russians speaking Russian here, rather than British people not even pretending to be Russian.

The show is entertaining, though it drags on a bit towards the end. They either should have moved the events of the final episode in S1 to a much earlier episode, or just have reduced the number of episodes to a maximum of 6-8.

This gets 3 stars because of the hard work of the costume designers, directors and production staff. We are now done with the positive aspects of the TV show. =============

In the same vein as shows like Riverdale that coin phrases like 'I beg your misogynistic pardon'. Producers continue to read a bunch of social media tweets, make minimal effort and then proceed to crown themselves woke.

I'm sorry but you don't make an inspirational woman by trying to make everyone around her act like apes and mindless drones. In this case you could show adept people skills or political understanding to show how she succeeded. But no we just say Catherine can read and is surrounded by fools and they more or less call it a day.

As is the trend these days they also cast a black actor in a side role as a white aristocrat and proceed to call it a day for showing diversity. Yes there were freed slaves that made it to the aristocracy but they had their own stories that ARE worth telling. Where is our show about Frederick Douglass or Ottobah Cugoano or any of the other black abolitionists that have stories of moving from African culture to being freed only to find you are never quite equal to white people? But no that is too much work so you cast a white side character as a black man and call it a day. This is not only a lazy way to show diversity, it erases history. It is clear to me that even the most sympathetic members of the white aristocracy never fully saw black people as their equals, perhaps they felt sorry for them but that is not the same as seeing someone as your peer. This aspect of black history is gradually being erased by these fools. You think with the racism existing today white people wouldn't bat at an eyelash if a black man dressed in finery walked past them? You think the society that had rules about dressing for your station would act this way?

As for the humour, it's the same kind of humour you get in crude British comedy designed for teenagers / young 20 somethings. Once I saw the show it became clear to me why they cast Nicholas Holt in the role, they want his skills from working on the teen show 'Skins'. This is a shame because I think the actor is capable of more.

It's a shame because with such a great production they could have been able to make a beautiful abstract painting of the key players in this historical period with intelligent humour. I completely understand why Russians take offence to this 'interpretation' of their heritage. This show feels like English University students broke into a BBC costume drama and started messing around based on what the bits that caught their attention in the cliff notes of a historical book.

I have never laughed so much at a show. The humour, the brilliance, the madnesses. It is so well acted! Nicholas Hoult is hilarious. The chemistry between him & Elle Fanning is obvious, a better match couldn't be had. Aunt Elizabeth (Belinda Bromilow) is pure gold, one of the best characters. I cant wait for another season.