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telegraph.co.ukThe Great – now broadcasting on Channel 4 – is a particularly vivid treat. Written by The Favourite co-writer Tony McNamara, this ten-part series takes on a similarly absurdist tone in its “occasionally true” portrait of famed 18th Century Russian ruler Catherine the Great (Elle Fanning) in the period before she took the throne.Playing fast and loose with the facts, it’s a show that revels in the grotesque side of human nature: full of complex machinations, gratuitous bloodshed, lurid bacchanalia, bitchy court dynamics and the cruelly childish actions of Catherine’s impetuous husband King Peter III (Nicholas Hoult), all set against the young Empress’s high ideals and ruthless ambition to enact a coup and claim rule of Russia for herself.
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