TV review: HBO's 'Catherine the Great'
Just months after HBO had a surprise audience and critical smash with, the premium cable giant is going further back for another glimpse into the Russian past with the four-part miniseries. Don't expect this exercise in English-accented time travel to have anywhere near the same impact, mind you.is less viscerally effective, and its timeliness, while absolutely there, isn't nearly as propulsive.
The truth, Williams argues exhaustively, is much less interesting than that.
Still, it's hard not to enjoy watching Mirren getting to play a regal sex bomb, a nice return to the feisty excellence upon which she built the earliest stages of her career before she reached an age at which Hollywood would prefer to treat women as untouchable.isn't spectacularly graphic , but Mirren is fiery enough that nudity or superfluous thrusting aren't necessary. She and Clarke are fine, if unremarkable, together.
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