Catherine The Great Hbo Show Review

Catherine the great starring helen mirren the new hbo and sky collaboration is a bit too narrow in its approach to a historical giant.

Catherine the great hbo show review. Mirren is too old to play this russian empress. Having helen mirren fabulously bring this overlooked monarch to life at a moment when women s fitness to lead is unbelievably still being questioned makes this four hour romp worthwhile. Aug 15 2020. Catherine the great review.

The life and times of the woman who reformed the russian empire. Audience reviews for catherine the great. She and clarke are fine if. She loved russia from the beginning and was doing what was best for the country.

She was strong and willful. From russia with love and lust helen mirren is the best thing about this hbo minseries on the rise and rising libido of russia s 18th century monarch. I imagine she was on a short list of one. Catherine the great was a tom boy as a child and was not feminine.

Catherine the great isn t spectacularly graphic or spectacularly anything but mirren is fiery enough that nudity or superfluous thrusting aren t necessary. Little common knowledge can be assumed and an awful lot of time and. Her husband had been a weakling who played with dolls in the bedroom. Ekaterina is way better than this.

The writing is lame the script is. But i m struck by two things. T he great handicap of hbo s new four part costume drama catherine the great sky atlantic is that she s not henry viii. Now in catherine the great hbo in collaboration with sky has cast her as russia s most famous unfairly infamous empress.

With helen mirren jason clarke gina mckee kevin mcnally. She cane to power out of necessity for russia more than personal desire.