Described as “an occasionally true story” from the creator of The Favourite, it tells of the young Catherine the Great’s rise to power in a Russian court of mostly absurd intrigue. She and her husband Peter each have a handful of genuine and mostly reliable allies who can still be affected by their feelings while everyone else shifts with their own agendas. Some are clearly mad, some playing at it like Elizabeth, who is probably a bit of both.
Catherine’s intelligence, wit and modernity make her a hero here while her goodness keeps threatening to kill her. Peter is an absolute monster, but just aware enough of it that you sometimes feel sorry for him when he screws something else up.
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