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The Great (Season 1) - 7/10 - As mentioned during my Ep1 review, this is an very enjoyable dark comedy in the style of "The Death of Stalin" which takes quite some liberties with History and pokes fun at itself constantly. The humour is very good in most places, the cast are very good (see below) with Elle Fanning being particularly good (although the Mental Auntie is my favourite character) and the story is OK although it can drag a in a few episodes. The set design and costume apparel "should" win it some awards I'd guess, although being on HULU I don't know what award shows it'd be eligible for.
Cast - Because it's more of a spoof than trying to be accurate it can get away with a whole heap of stuff which could be initially "distracting" as the cast (set in 18th Century Russia) is fully diverse with POC & Minority through-out but because, as mentioned earlier, it's not trying to be accurate, it's easy to forget the distracting "why is that Russian Aristocrat black?" stuff very quickly.
Cast - Because it's more of a spoof than trying to be accurate it can get away with a whole heap of stuff which could be initially "distracting" as the cast (set in 18th Century Russia) is fully diverse with POC & Minority through-out but because, as mentioned earlier, it's not trying to be accurate, it's easy to forget the distracting "why is that Russian Aristocrat black?" stuff very quickly.
