Netflix fans ‘super excited’ as historical drama confirms return for final season

Netflix fans person declared ‘we’ve won’ aft the streamer announced the 3rd and last play of an ‘entertaining’ humanities drama.

The Empress is based connected the beingness of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (or Sisi) who ruled for 44 years from her matrimony to Emperor Franz Joseph I successful 1854 until her assassination successful 1898.

The German bid stars Devrim Lingnau successful the rubric role, portion Philip Froissant plays her husband.

Earlier this week, the streamer confirmed the Emmy Award-winning amusement would instrumentality for its last outing delighting fans connected societal media who had been waiting for an update connected its future.

On X @neverenoughali exclaimed: ‘#TheEmpress renewed for a play 3 THEY ARE COMING BACK TO ME.’

Echoing their sentiment, @its_amina raved: ‘Season 3 is coming back. We won. #TheEmpress.’

Ove connected Reddit, idiosyncratic Local-Ad-7686 said: ‘I conscionable discovered this amusement wrong the past period and finished Season 2 the nighttime earlier Season 3 was announced. I’m truthful blessed due to the fact that this amusement is truthful good! Sad it volition beryllium the past play though :(.’

TheSkyMaid: added ‘OMG I’m truthful happy!’

The archetypal season, which was released successful September 2022, was Netflix’s second-most watched bid worldwide for 2 weeks and became one of the astir fashionable non-English bid of that year. It was besides awarded the International Emmy for champion play series.

It begins with a 16-year-old Sisi falling successful emotion with the Emperor, who was initially the intended fiancé of her older sister.

After arriving successful Vienna, she is past faced with navigating tribunal authorities and her caller husband’s meddling family.

The archetypal season, which holds a standing of 88% connected reappraisal tract Rotten Tomatoes, has been called ‘captivating’ by fans.

After a astir two-year wait, the six-episode 2nd play was released past year.

It centred connected occupation successful Schönbrunn Palace, with Franz unexpectedly facing a almighty adversary successful Europe, portion Elisabeth came nether large unit to present an heir to the throne to unafraid the aboriginal of the empire arsenic rapidly arsenic possible.

‘Starting a small slow, it reaches its melodramatic prime by the end, leaving america each breathless. Great season,’ Pavel posted connected Rotten Tomatoes.

‘It’s arsenic bully arsenic play 1 if not better,’ Daryl wrote.

‘Season 1 of The Empress was perfectly superb and truthful acold play 2 does not disappoint!’ Helen added.

Meanwhile connected Reddit different instrumentality shared: ‘I kinda emotion it. That’s my play comfortableness amusement and adjacent though it the costumes look a spot excessively modern; I find it precise entertaining.’

Another called it their ‘weekend comfortableness show’.

However, galore who binged the episodes said they wished the play was longer, particularly aft waiting truthful long.

‘Really good. But disappointed however abbreviated it was. S2 took truly agelong until it was released, and it was conscionable a manus afloat of episodes that tin beryllium watched connected a azygous afternoon,’ 1 explained.

In an interrogation with The Times erstwhile play 1 was released, creator Katharina Eyssen drew comparisons betwixt Sisi and the late Diana, Princess of Wales.

‘Elisabeth was similar, I think, to Lady Diana. Elisabeth did her ain happening and that was unconventional,’ she said.

‘She did tons of things, similar Diana, that truly moved people, similar going into asylums, visiting the wounded successful hospitals, adjacent influencing the emperor to liberate the Hungarians from the regularisation of Vienna. That made her precise popular.’

The Empress is streaming connected Netflix.

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