| HBO | Season Premiere Date: October 21, 2019 |
Summary:
The four-part limited series focuses on the later years of the reign of Russian empress Catherine the Great (Helen Mirren) and her relationship with Russian military leader Grigory Potemkin (Jason Clarke).
Genre(s):
Drama, Movie/Mini-Series
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The Independent
Jan 3, 2020
It helps to have Clarke, Roxburgh and Kinnear, three of the best going, around her, broad-shouldered men in this women’s world. If the dialogue is occasionally over-expository, that’s understandable, and on the whole the starry team makes cantering over all this historical turf look surprisingly intimate. Catherine’s not quite great, yet, but she’s very good.
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Oct 21, 2019
Mirren is the reason to watch, and reason enough. It’s no knock against the rest of the cast or the production designer or costumers or digital matte painters, who have all acquitted themselves bravely, even brilliantly, to say that there is no other particularly compelling reason to spend four hours in this slice of 18th century history.
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Oct 23, 2019
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. But I’m struck by two things. Catherine the Great looks and feels like something HBO could have done 15 years ago, and indeed did do 15 years ago with this same team.
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Nov 3, 2019
Oct 21, 2019
Catherine The Great’s storytelling never manages to equal the grandeur of its richly detailed set design; as the series unfolds, those extravagant visuals become more and more like façades from the mythical Potemkin villages. ... Mirren and Clarke deliver compelling performances as a clever, iron-willed queen and a soldier turned high-ranking statesman, respectively.
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Oct 14, 2019
Opulent if oddly constricted. ... [Mirren is] great, even when trapped in a romance novel. [14-27 Oct 2019, p.11]
Oct 21, 2019
In effect, the miniseries trims the tawdry and scurrilous details from the monarchy's biography and replaces them with a much more conventional story of a woman whose greatest ideas are supplied by or on behalf of a compelling man. On her own behalf, Catherine mostly fights a repetitive battle to maintain control,
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Nov 5, 2019
Acting is fine, the production values are stellar, the material is fascinating, and yet i find it disjointed and rushed. I want to know a lot more about all the characters, but all i get is history highlights. This would have been much better as a series starting at her marriage and ending here.
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Oct 30, 2019
Seems like a History Channel version of Catherine's reign (not there is anything wrong with that), but Catherine keeps saying the same thing over and over. Jason Clarke is badly miscast.
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