Huzzah! Hulu’s The Great returns in November for season 2
Hulu also released the first footage of the Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult-led comedy's second season
Hulu is almost ready to take us back to the 18th century via The Great. Tony McNamara’s satirical comedy about Catherine The Great, Russia’s longest-reigning female ruler (played by Elle Fanning), will return in winter 2021. The streaming platform announced during the Television Critics Association’s 2021 summer press tour that The Great season two will premiere in November.
The new season picks up after the events of the season-one finale, “The Beaver’s Nose,” wherein Catherine’s husband Peter III (Nicholas Hoult) discovers her plot of overthrowing him and becoming the sole ruler. He imprisons her lover, Leo (Sebastian de Souza), effectively bringing his wife under his thumb. Now she’ll have to continue to battle him while pregnant, and still attempt to liberate a nation that probably doesn’t want to be free.