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To: Professional

I presume you are talking about The Tudors that first appeared on Showtime and had Jonathan Rhys Meyers playing Henry VIII?

I tried to watch it and while I could see it as perhaps being entertaining, I couldn’t get past all the glaring historical inaccuracies, the bad casting, poor dialogue, costuming not being of the correct period, ….

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-489336/Henry-VIII-The-glaring-errors-BBCs-sexed-dumbed-Tudors.html


51 posted on 01/28/2018 11:48:45 AM PST by MD Expat in PA
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To: MD Expat in PA

LOL, I had the same impression about The Tudors: some very odd casting, silly costumes, pointless gratuitous sex. It seems to me that Wolf Hall at least attempted to be more authentic.

It still boggles my mind to think that world Christianity (and the history of the world, really) were profoundly changed just because Henry the Eighth wanted a divorce.


100 posted on 01/28/2018 8:18:31 PM PST by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves."y)
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