#Charity Wakefield

[tuserlivia]

THE GREAT | S3E10 "Once upon a time"

[userkayjay]

THE GREAT 3.07

Me neither.

Requested by @purpleplaid17

[nastasyafilippovnas]

THE GREAT (2020- ) 3.01 The Bullet or the Bear

[behindfairytales]

CHARITY WAKEFIELD as Georgina Dymova The Great, Peter and the Wolf (3.08)

[historicalreusedcostumes]

This Dark Blue Tudor gown is worn on Charity Wakefield as Mary Boleyn in Wolf Hall (2015) and later worn on The second actress is Gemma Whelan as Anne Boleyn in Horrible Histories: Ridiculous Romantics (2017)

[ladystrallan]

I could write an essay on all the intricacies and nuances of the INSANE relationship dynamic of Peter/Grigor/George. The three of them are so codependent it’s crazy. Like George loves Grigor but also loves fucking Peter (and there’s also a weird power dynamic between them because he is emperor), but she doesn’t love Peter romantically. And Grigor loves George so he hates that she’s fucking Peter, but he can’t hate Peter because he loves him so much (platonically, but maybe not???). And Peter is so oblivious and has been made so entitled to everything by being emperor that he needs them both to be completely and utterly devoted to him, and has never stopped to think that maybe he shouldn’t fuck his best friend’s wife. They’re his friends but he also has so much power over them. It’s simultaneously beneficial and awful for everyone involved. It’s so toxic but none of them can imagine life otherwise. It’s so interesting and it should have been explored more on the show.

[doctorfriend79]

The Return Of Doctor Mysterio

[lamorchemoveilsoleelaltrestelle]

Charity Wakefield and Janet McTeer in Sense and Sensibility (2008)

[fuckinglemoniestoflemon]

Fucked My Way Up To The Top | Georgina Dymov

[funkymbtifiction]

Sense and Sensibility: Marianne Dashwood [INFP 4w3]

MBTI Type: INFP Dominant Introverted Feeling – a self-knowledge and a desire to live in accordance with one’s personal values: Marianne’s emotional responses dictate all of her decisions; she doesn’t like it when others attempt to set her up with Brandon, and hurries out of the house to avoid him, while showing preferences for Willoughby. But her own feelings toward him change, once she begins…

[nkp1981]

Doctor Who Christmas Special: "The Return of Doctor Mysterio", 2016

[higherentity]

[nastasyafilippovnas]

Grigor and Georgina in THE GREAT season three trailer

[behindfairytales]

CHARITY WAKEFIELD as Georgina Dymova The Great, The Bullet or the Bear (3.01)

[forest-enchantress]

✦CHARITY WAKEFIELD in SENSE AND SENSIBILITY✦

Click on the source link to be redirected to #491 gifs (300 x 169px, some of them 300 x 300px) of Charity Wakefieldin Sense and Sensibility. All of these gifs were made by me from scratch, so do not redistribute or claim them as your own. Please, don’t forget to like or reblog if you plan on using!

[ladystrallan]

The weird way The Great frames infidelity

The Great is a show which portrays many extramarital relationships. However, it is quite inconsistent with the way in which they are framed by the narrative. This portrayal results in a strange theme of ‘cheating is okay if you don’t love your spouse’. Let’s look at all of the affairs in the show and how they are framed:

1. Catherine and Leo: this affair is consensual from all sides until it isn’t. Peter is the one who sets up Catherine and Leo, who she ends up falling in love with. Peter only starts to have a problem with this relationship once he falls in love with Catherine, and we all know how that ends. Catherine is not portrayed as in the wrong for cheating, because her marriage to Peter is loveless and he is a horrible person in season 1. Additionally, Peter is also not framed as bad for being jealous, only for killing Leo.

2. Peter and George: the most fucked up relationship in the show. Both are married; George to Grigor who she does love, and Peter to Catherine who he doesn’t love (at first). It is also pretty evident that their relationship started long before Peter married Catherine. There is an obvious power imbalance here. Peter is the absolute ruler of the country and George is his subject. No matter how ambiguous the question of consent is, he could absolutely have her killed if he wanted to. A lot of people forget how volatile and absolutely cutthroat Peter was in season 1. Catherine is hurt when Peter invites her into a threesome with George, but his infidelity largely doesn’t matter after she decides she doesn’t love him. Peter cheating on his wife is pretty much not a big problem at all and just adds to reasons why he is a ‘bad person’ in season 1. There is also a second element that makes this affair ‘worse’. George’s husband is Peter’s best friend. We see just how distraught Grigor is about this affair, finally snapping and trying to kill Peter. George is framed as an ‘evil whore’ for cheating on her husband with his best friend, while no one mentions how Peter is fucking his best friend’s wife. Peter is the emperor of Russia. He literally could have chosen anyone to be his mistress and he chose his best friend’s wife. Additionally, in the 18th century ‘mistress of the king’ was a legitimate position and one of the only ways for women to improve their position in court. She also makes many references to how she only does this to keep her (and Grigor’s) position in court. (See scenes from s1e5 and s1e9)

3. Peter and Joanna: this one is also a mess. Joanna is obviously framed as bad for trying to seduce her daughter’s husband. Peter is framed as in the wrong— but there is a bit of ‘he couldn’t help himself because Joanna seduced him’— but mostly because of who he cheated with. It’s not that big of a deal that he cheated, it’s bad because he fucked her mother. (And then she fell out the window and died and he covered it up)

4. Grigor and Marial: Similarly to Catherine and Leo, this relationship is also ‘person finds true love outside of their evil spouse’ except George was not an abusive murderous tyrant, but that’s besides the point. This affair is framed as very triumphant for Grigor; he has finally escaped his toxic marriage! Even though his relationship with Marial is very toxic. She is constantly rude to him, lies to him, hates his friends, not to mention how she treats him after Peter’s death. She wants to be the only person in his life. When George returns from France to find that her husband has left her for another woman, she is justifiably upset but is framed by the narrative as in the wrong even though she does nothing to break up Grigor and Marial. Marial is also married to Maxim but he’s 11 so it doesn’t really matter, and the fact that he is upset about her infidelity is played for laughs more than anything.

Honorable mentions:

- Hugo and Agnes: they both make passes at other people but are both always in on it

- Catherine and the American ambassador: it’s fine because she does it to get back at Peter for fucking her mother

- Peter’s countless hookups: don’t matter because they mostly happen when he and Catherine are not in love

- Tatyana and Arkady: Arkady gets really defensive at the idea of Tatyana doing anything with Peter, but she wants to take George’s place as his mistress. This is pretty evident when they think Pugachev is Peter and Tatyana is desperately trying to fuck him. It doesn’t amount to much of anything

When you look at all these relationships and how they are framed, one thing stands out. The only person who is vilified for cheating is George. Even though the dynamic between her, Peter, and Grigor is super complex, the one takeaway the narrative and most people in the fandom get is ‘George is an evil slut’. Even when she gets her ‘punishment’ and loses Peter, Grigor, and some of her standing in court, it’s still not enough and people want her dead. The theme turns out to be ‘cheating is only bad if you’re George’.