'The Great' Season 3 Will Premiere on Hulu This May

Huzzah! The third season of Hulu's sly, satirical, and utterly delightful period drama The Great will officially premiere on the streamer this May.

The series comes from Oscar-winner Tony McNamara (The Favourite) and stars Elle Fanning as Empress Catherine the Great, the longest-reigning female monarch in Russian history. Nicholas Hoult plays her charming, occasionally violent husband, Peter III. Offbeat, irreverent, and largely historically inaccurate, the show is a surprisingly deft exploration of the roles of women in power and the difficult compromises they must often make to stay there.

Season 2 saw Catherine finally take the Russian throne for her own, though she ran into plenty of problems trying to "enlighten" a country that isn't necessarily eager to embrace new ways of thinking and living. And, of course, there's Peter, who Catherine just can't seem to shake -- either politically or from her own heart, despite the fact that she overthrew his government and tried to kill him. (Do we care that the real Peter died shortly after Catherine came to power? No, no we do not. Sometimes being fast and loose with the facts is a blessing.)