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Amazing! Awe-inspiring..... gorgeous, lush, true, sexy
LOVE IT! Can't wait for the next series. Our whole family has watched the whole season twice, we own it, love it love it love it! Acting is fantastic, Jonathan who plays Henry VIII is not only an amazing actor, he BECOMES Henry.... he is a master, and a gorgeous one at that. The costumes, the music, the stage sets, all so believable, really brings the Tudor story to life. Best Henry VIII saga ever! Thank you.... been waiting for this for my whole-life..... pre-ordered the next season already, and am counting the days! Best TV series by FAR.
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Flawed History - Mesmerizing Story
I started watching this on television, at the second last episode, thinking it was going to be terrible. This King Henry is not a red-head, not bearded and not middle aged. I did not expect 'fat', because he was still athletic when he started wooing Anne, but the real King Henry was nearing forty.
I was very impressed.
"Henry's" acting was somewhat off the wall. The true Bluff King Hal was not angry or petulant all the time. In the next season, the acting is calmer and therefore more menacing - more of the intelligent, respected and feared monarch Henry VIII was.
The others (More, Wolsey, Brandon, Anne, Catherine): very well done. The complexities of character: very well shown by script and actors (such as the conflict between Thomas More, the humane man, versus Thomas More, the smiter of heritics)
The historical parts are skewed. They are wrong in some facts and many details, and yet right in spirit. Such as the part where Wolsey killed himself. That's not historical ... yet it's plausible that he did, and his suicide was covered up. The wildness, the menace, is there.
Well worth buying.
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Tudorriffic!!
Passionate, exciting, spellbinding, and beautiful are all superlatives that do not do justice to this series. Henry is a true lion of the Tudor Dynasty - sexual, powerful, and cruel. He elicits admiration and fear from all he touches, and even those who veiw him on the small screen. The stories are well acted and hard to leave.
If you only have time for thrity minutes of viewing, save this for later, because you will want to watch the entire first season at once, it is so compelling.
The only flaw in this production is that it is not completely accurate historically. As a scholar of the Tudor and especially Elizabethan period these inaccuracies are noticable, but not enough so to be distractable in any way. The entire feeling or atmosphere of the period is as I have always pictured it - excessive for the wealthy and spoiled, desparate for the others, and totally insecure for all but the highest in the land!
Excellent job!! Enjoy!
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Someone get out the history books please!
Showtime should be commended for creating another beautifully filmed mini-series. They should be strangled, however, for their complete lack of historical accuracy. If you want sensuality in your late night prime time then The Tudors is your ticket. The characters are beautiful and the performances are honest, gritty and gripping; which makes this series a pleasure to watch. But if you're going to make series based on the tomfoolery of royalty and its trappings, you may want to implore a little chronological precision.
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Addictive
I didn't watch the series when it aired, but was intrigued when I saw the DVD set. I couldn't stop watching it! Given, it is not historically accurate but it's wildly entertaining. I can't wait till season 2 is available.
