The Tudors - The Complete First Season
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Actor: Anna Brewster, Barry McGovern, Matt Ryan, Perdita Weeks, Steven WaddingtonBrand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 556 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-01-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Showtime Ent.
DVD Reviews of The Tudors - The Complete First Season
DVD Review: Stunning!
Summary: 5 Stars
I absolutely LOVE this show. JRM is gorgeous and oh so perfect for this role! I know there are about a million horrible reviews on this series, but most of them are from history buffs, not folks who simply like to be swept away by beatiful people, lush cinemetography, breathtaking clothes, steamy sex and chilling drama. A must-see for those who don't mind so much about the historical inconsistencies.DVD Review: A Sexy Show
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a really sexy show and Johnathan Rhyes-Meyers is absolutely hot and delivers a wonderful performance as Henry the eight.DVD Review: Historical or not, it could have been better.
Summary: 3 Stars
I would have liked historical accuracy, but it would not have been critical for me to enjoy this. What i find more important are things like character development and writing.
I was excited to watch this show which has gotten so much attention that i felt i was missing out on something good. At first i was a bit intrigued, then disappointed, then mildly interested. I guess i was surprised that the writing was not so gripping, complex, or thought-provoking as it could be, given all the drama and complexities that history has provided the writers.
I initially felt the chemistry between Henry and Anne but what they fail to show is what is it based on? Why is he so drawn to her? I wish they got into that a bit more. He could have had anyone so what made her so special? Nothing i could see beyond a good chase.
I don't mind tastefully-filmed sexual encounters, but it was so gratuitous that i was rolling my eyes. Enough, already! The mind needs to be turned on too!
So i have hopes that season 2 will be better. I'm interested enough to keep watching, but season 1 is light years away from series like 'the sopranos' and 'six feet under'.
DVD Review: Bodice ripping yarns
Summary: 2 Stars
To be honest, this series strikes me as the ultimate case of packaging over content-- the people are all gorgeous, the houses perfect, the lighting and camera work exceptional, and the character motivations simple. While I enjoy the occasional early 16th century nubile nude youth as much, or more, than anyone, one suspects that the European rulers at the time based their actions on more complex desires than the pursuit of the perfect tryst.
Ok, maybe I expect too much, and being familiar with books may infuse me with an expectation of complexity not to be hoped for in a Showtime costume series. However making Henry 8 an over sexed frat boy who occasionally has fits of intellectual awareness between bouts of sexual obsession simplifies a complex character beyond adult belief. I envy all the young actors ability to look good in tights. Some of them can even ride horses. And poor Sam Neil, as Woolsey--- try as he might, he's given nothing to play other than a power mad prelate who gets an occasional hyperactive massage from his mistress. Sam, no rear end points from the Jurassic Park series?
I guess what I'm driving at is that if someone over at Showtime had shown the same care in the writing of the series, as they did in the productions values, this might have been a truly exceptional production. It may get better--I've only been able to invest three hours of my life that I'll never get back on the first three episodes--but the hope of improvement may not suffice the risk of more hours waiting for something substantive to happen.
DVD Review: Wonderful story
Summary: 5 Stars
This a great TV show. If you are looking for a historically accurate show, then you will be sorely disappointed. However, if you are looking for an entertaining show then you must see this. JRM plays a great Henry VIII, mood changes and all. I love Natalie Dormer as Anne Boleyn!
Description of The Tudors - The Complete First Season
The Tudors presents the rarely dramatized tumultuous early years of King Henry VIII s nearly 40 year omnipotent reign (1509-1547). In addition to his famous female consorts and 20+ year marriage to Catherine of Aragon to the infamous dalliance with Anne Boleyn the series delves in to Henry s most notable political relationship and the deconstruction of the Roman Catholic Church in England.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC: 097368516045 Manufacturer No: 851604The Tudors: The Complete First Season may cover the same subject matter as the 1970 BBC series The Six Wives of Henry VIII, but in every other respect it is a different idea of historical drama. Sexy and violent, The Tudors envisions Henry VIII (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) as a young man of both passion and ambition, driven by boundless sexual energy and the desire to establish a legacy early in his monarchy. When he isn't sleeping with any available beauty--heedless of whose daughter or wife a lover might be--he's getting fired up about going to war with France. He is amenable, however, to alternative ideas, including the counsel of his Lord Chancellor, Cardinal Wolsey (Sam Neill), who wants his king to sign a treaty of universal peace with all of Europe. Henry's fiery temperament endangers such a move, but Wolsey persists in hopes of gaining France's support for his own, possible ascendance to the papacy. His ambitions are not to be, however, and his fortunes go downhill as Henry's desire to wed Ann Boleyn (Natalie Dormer) puts Wolsey in the position of petitioning Rome for a hearing on the legitimacy of Henry's marriage to Queen Katherine.
Henry's shrewd alliance with the king of Spain is also testament to his desire to have more influence over European affairs. But his even greater desire for another woman proves an obstacle there, too. Over the course of the ten episodes on The Complete First Season, Henry's confidence grows as a monarch while his self-interest undercuts his better judgement about making a difference to Europe's progress. While the series makes the historical events rich and captivating, it also makes Henry's love life a voyeuristic delight, full of candlelit flesh and romps in the royal bed. Some of the most fascinating characters in the show are those who figure out the link between Henry's libido and his exercise of power--including Boleyn's own father (Nick Dunning), who encourages Ann to keep up the good work. Sheesh. --Tom Keogh
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