The Tudors Episode 6: Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn Face Off

Wednesday, 16 of May , 2007 @ 9:55 am

Tags: Showtime, The Tudors, King Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Natalie Dormer, Jonathan Rhys Meyers

This is another The Tudors post. What can I say? This show owns me.

Thanks to a late night call from Tiffany last night, I was able to watch Episode 6 on Daily Motion without having to wait for the torrent to download. Here’s a brief rant and rave on two characters, with some screencaps. I’ll try to keep it as spoiler-free as possible, but they cannot be fully avoided, so proceed with caution if you haven’t seen this episode yet.

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Showtime’s The Tudors

Sunday, 13 of May , 2007 @ 5:13 am

Tags: The Tudors, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Showtime, King Henry VIII, The Tudors screencaps

photo from the Internet Movie Database

While everybody else is blogging about the latest episodes of Grey’s Anatomy and Heroes, here I am writing about a lesser known, but equally superb (if not better) television series - Showtime’s The Tudors.

No words can express how much I love this show. It’s absofuckinglutely brilliant television right there. Maybe I’m just biased because I’m a sucker for historical fiction. But what’s marvelous about this show is its portrayal of King Henry VIII - as a desirable, sexy young king in his prime years as the 25 year old overlord of England and Ireland.

I remember when I was a child, there was a scroll hanging in my parents’ bedroom, with the portraits of a grotesquely obese Henry VIII and his six wives embroidered on it. My mom had bought it from one of her trips to England and she told me the story of a fat king who married six times, divorced two of his wives and executed two others. And I remember thinking, “What an asshole” (okay, I didn’t exactly think the word “asshole”). For many years, that’s all I knew about him. I bet it’s the same for a lot of people. The opening credits of the show is right - what do we know about King Henry VIII before he became an overweight, womanizing, syphilis-infested wreck?

Well, apparently, he was like a fricking rock star.

(spoilers below the cut)

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