'The Great' Season 2 Trailer Sees Catherine Claim Her Throne

Hulu has released the trailer for the second season of its satirical period drama The Great which shows us Catherine finally taking the thrown in her own right, even as she faces a variety of new challenges, including pregnancy, political machinations on all sides, and the arrival of her mother (played by Gillian Anderson).

The Great Season 1chronicled Catherine's rise from outsider to Empress, before she goes on to become the longest-reigning female ruler in Russia's history. The show's story is not entirely historically accurate, but it certainly is tons of fun, frequently wrestling with much broader, more impactful, and modern concepts, such as questions of leadership and religion, the role of women in power, and how we remember the figures of our own past.

In Season 2, it looks as though the new Empress will discover that claiming the throne was the easy part of her new rule. Because now that her coup has succeeded, Catherine will have to figure out how to rule a country that doesn't particularly like her and isn't all that interested in the progress the Age of Englightenment supposedly promises.