THE GREAT AND JEFFREY EPSTEIN: FILTHY RICH

THE GREAT

This is a new period drama satire, that’s arrived on Stan, it’s set in 18th Century Russia and stars Elle Fanning as Catherine the Great and Nicholas Hoult as Emperor Peter. Apparently, historians know a lot about Catherine’s experiences during her life is because of the extensive memoirs she left behind. Her writings describe her husband, the emperor Peter as a “drunkard,” “good-for-nothing” and an “idiot.” Take a dash of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette and a decent amount of The Favourite (Showrunner/Writer Tony McNamara wrote that film as well) and you have a good idea of what to expect.

FILTHY RICH: JEFFREY EPSTEIN

This four-part series examines Epstein’s charmed life of slithering his way past any obstacle and achieving a surreal level of financial success. Now most people are aware of who Epstein was and probably saw the news when he mysteriously – and I do want to emphasise ‘mysteriously’ - died in jail, while awaiting trial and while under suicide watch. An independent medical examiner concluded that Epstein’s injuries were consistent with someone who was strangled from behind. Nothing to see here then. With all the dodgy stuff he was doing, he’s so toxic that neither side of the US political aisle wanted to even pick at the scab that was Jeffrey Epstein, let alone point an accusatory finger at anyone else.