Will There Be a ‘The Great’ Season 3 on Hulu?

The Great Season 2 radically remixes Russian history in the most devilishly fun way possible. The second season follows a pregnant Catherine (Elle Fanning) as she finally takes leadership of Russia, while juggling the stress of heartache, the wild Russian court, and her silly (still living) husband Peter (Nicholas Hoult). In a wild twist, the two mismatched monarchs somehow manage to fall in love by season’s end, but that doesn’t meant The Great Season 2 has a happy ending. In fact, the end of The Great Season 2 is tragic, bittersweet, and full of drama. But is that it? Will Hulu make The Great Season 3?

Hulu’s The Great follows the rise of real life 18th century monarch Catherine the Great  without a single care for the historical record. The real Catherine ruthlessly took over Russia with the help of her military man lover Grigory Orlov (who is NOT a character on the show, at all) and the real Peter died under mysterious circumstances shortly thereafter. (Yeah, she probably had him killed.) The Great‘s Catherine, however, is constantly weighing her values against her ambitions and keeps struggling to kill off Peter, who is played with cat-like mercurial delight by Nicholas Hoult. The Great sacrifices historical accuracy for sheer fun and that’s why it’s one of the most revolutionary historical dramas out there.

So what happens next? If we can’t count on history to let us know where The Great goes after its electric Season 2, will Hulu give us The Great Season 3? Here’s everything we know about The Great Season 3 on Hulu…

WILL THERE BE A THE GREAT SEASON 3 ON HULU?

Yes! President of Hulu and ABC Entertainment Craig Erwich announced The Great Season 3 during his executive session at Winter 2022 TCA on Tuesday, January 11, 2022.

WHEN WILL THE GREAT SEASON 3 BE ON HULU?

It took a little over a year between the time Hulu announced The Great‘s first season order (in February 2019) and the time the show premiered in May 2020. COVID-19 delayed production on The Great Season 2 until November 2020. Given that timeline, The Great Season 3 could arrive on Hulu anywhere between November 2022 through February 2023. Basically about a year out from a renewal announcement.

THE GREAT SEASON 2 ENDING EXPLAINED: SO CATHERINE AND PETER ARE IN LOVE? EVEN THOUGH HE SLEPT WITH HER MOM? AND SHE TRIED TO KILL HIM?

Yeah, so the ending of The Great Season 2 is wild. Over the course of the season, Catherine learns to love Peter. After the birth of their son Paul, they seem to be head over heels for each other. That is, until Mariel (Phoebe Fox) reveals to Catherine that Peter slept with her mother (Gillian Anderson) and killed her. While Peter claims innocence over the death of Catherine’s mother, he admits to sleeping with her.

Catherine spends the Season 2 finale of The Great weighing what to do about Peter. She loves him, but he must die. Not just out of vengeance but to secure her reign. Peter makes a public appeal to Catherine during Mariel’s wedding to an eight-year-old boy. In the end, Catherine admits that real love might be about embracing the other person’s flaws. She seems to be okay with Peter, but a plan is a foot.

Later Velementov (Douglas Hodge) arrests a few of the drunken nobles in the court while Catherine stabs Peter in the back. When she realizes what she’s done, Catherine is bereft and embraces Peter’s corpse. Only, it’s not Peter. When Peter walks in, they embrace. The person Catherine thought she killed actually gets up, in pain. Husband and wife embrace each other awkwardly realizing they are stuck together even as they mark the biggest threats to each other’s lives.

So yeah, I guess they really love each other.

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