I do not understand why I'd take a great cast and good production values and sets, and then just misuse the scripts by ignoring real history. The real History has Peter leaving Russia and then being murdered immediately by Catherine upon return. There is a bunch of nonsense here with Peter coming back and being under house arrest and acting like a clown.
The real story is Catherine taking over the country and having a major affair with the General of the Armies. Now, if your really worried about keeping the actor playing Peter employed, why not recast him as the General having the affair with Catherine? It would align much better with the real story.
There are characters here are named and based upon real people, but the trouble is most of them are not living the way the real people did. While I guess you could call this comedy, it is easier to look at it as tragic. We have Catherine getting pregnant, supposedly Peter's child, while she has her own male stud who supposedly can't make her conceive due to a physical condition that I doubt would have been widely known about at this time in history? Call in Maury Povich and a DNA test to prove whose child this tyke really is? Huzzah !
Meanwhile, we have Peter the Greats son being written into the script and living on and on when he really died. Then we have to believe that Catherine has sympathy for him? The real Catherine and Peter The Great are both spinning in their graves.
The acting here reminds on of a cultured PBS series but the scripts have gone off the axis not just of good taste, but they do not even taste good. The only reason I do not mark this down more is at least Catherine finally does deliver her 2 season baby. She is a hot looking actress so if there is a season 3, it will be nice to see her natural curves back at last. She is a good actress.
For season 3, kill Peter, please. The real Catherine knew better than to even let him come back into Russia. It is an insult that he is still alive, much less he has been a stupid jerk the entire 2 seasons. Granted the actor playing the General really is too old for a young woman like Catherine, so I doubt he was cast properly either. He is a good actor but unfortunately unless we redo the series from season 1, the real affair and story will never see the light of day. That is a shame, as the real story would be much better than the farce.
I do credit some excellent acting by the woman playing Peter's mistress. It takes a lot to make me believe any woman would service a fool, but she makes it believable. At least she seems to wake up by season 2 and cuts off the affair with a man who should be dead. Too bad the scripts are wasting such talent as this could have been a great show. It's just not.
The real story is Catherine taking over the country and having a major affair with the General of the Armies. Now, if your really worried about keeping the actor playing Peter employed, why not recast him as the General having the affair with Catherine? It would align much better with the real story.
There are characters here are named and based upon real people, but the trouble is most of them are not living the way the real people did. While I guess you could call this comedy, it is easier to look at it as tragic. We have Catherine getting pregnant, supposedly Peter's child, while she has her own male stud who supposedly can't make her conceive due to a physical condition that I doubt would have been widely known about at this time in history? Call in Maury Povich and a DNA test to prove whose child this tyke really is? Huzzah !
Meanwhile, we have Peter the Greats son being written into the script and living on and on when he really died. Then we have to believe that Catherine has sympathy for him? The real Catherine and Peter The Great are both spinning in their graves.
The acting here reminds on of a cultured PBS series but the scripts have gone off the axis not just of good taste, but they do not even taste good. The only reason I do not mark this down more is at least Catherine finally does deliver her 2 season baby. She is a hot looking actress so if there is a season 3, it will be nice to see her natural curves back at last. She is a good actress.
For season 3, kill Peter, please. The real Catherine knew better than to even let him come back into Russia. It is an insult that he is still alive, much less he has been a stupid jerk the entire 2 seasons. Granted the actor playing the General really is too old for a young woman like Catherine, so I doubt he was cast properly either. He is a good actor but unfortunately unless we redo the series from season 1, the real affair and story will never see the light of day. That is a shame, as the real story would be much better than the farce.
I do credit some excellent acting by the woman playing Peter's mistress. It takes a lot to make me believe any woman would service a fool, but she makes it believable. At least she seems to wake up by season 2 and cuts off the affair with a man who should be dead. Too bad the scripts are wasting such talent as this could have been a great show. It's just not.