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Cable movie channel Showtime has a new original series called "
The Tudors". I don't get Showtime, but I do have DIRECTV, which is previewing the first 2 episodes of the series on Channel 101. I'm watching Episode 1 right now.
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Interesting, but looks like the usual historical inaccuracies and T & A fare (including rather graphic depictions of Henry's sexcapades) that you see on "historical" drama series on premium cable channels like HBO and Showtime (
see, e.g., "
Rome").
A fairly solid cast, including Jeremy Northam as Sir Thomas More, Sam Neill as Cardinal Wolsey, and a rather youngish-looking Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Henry VIII.
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Based on what I've seen in the first 40 minutes, I'm guessing the hero of the series turns out in the end to be a martyred saint of the Church.
Labels: England, History, Media, Movies
2 Comments:
I watched the first two episodes and thought it was awful. That little actor who plays the far more physically imposing HVIII struts, pouts, and fornicates his way through a mish-mash of a plot. The acting is bad, and the historical inaccuracies are numerous.
After I posted my comments, I watched the remainder of the 1st episode and the 2nd episode, and I agree with you, Rich. It was pretty awful. And Jonathan Rhys Meyers was completely miscast in the lead role.
As I said in my initial impressions, this program contains the usual historical inaccuracies and T & A that accompany "original series" on premium cable channels.
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