The Tudors - The Complete Second Season
by Ciaran Donnelly, Colm McCarthy, Dearbhla Walsh, Jeremy Podeswa, Jon Amiel
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Actor: Henry Cavill, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Natalie Dormer, Nick DunningDirector: Ciaran Donnelly, Colm McCarthy, Dearbhla Walsh, Jeremy Podeswa, Jon Amiel
Brand: Paramount
Cinematographer: Ousama Rawi
Producer: Sheila Hockin
Writer: Michael Hirst
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Dubbed), Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 542 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-01-06
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Showtime Ent.
DVD Reviews of The Tudors - The Complete Second Season
DVD Review: histrory alive
Summary: 5 Stars
I have always had an affinity for this particular era in English history. I was certainly not disappointed in the series. Am looking forward to being able to buy the third season of The Tudors. I applaud the film industry for making this series totally believable and very close to the actual events. Love it!DVD Review: The first season was great and the second...
Summary: 5 Stars
is just as good. Even though you know what will ultimately happen to Anne, this series manages to keep you on the edge of your seat in suspense nonetheless. I'll miss poor Anne in the third year.DVD Review: Rivetting and much more historically accurate
Summary: 5 Stars
While the series is very loosely based on the events of the life of Henry VIII the performances by JR Meyers and Jeremy Northam as Sir Thomas More really make the piece.
Natalie Dormer is pitch perfect as Anne, even if we can see through her and her family and find her annoying!
Maria Doyle Kennedy as the Queen is superb. She is warm, human, dignified and we actually feel sorry for all the king is throwing away for a woman who ultimately proved to not be worth it. And how much he will destroy in England in the process.
Henry as a 'sleeping lion' is wonderfully portrayed. The series is not as much of a 'bonkbuster' as the first one, though there are sexy bits, but there is a LOT of interesting stuff that will pique your interest in the real history if you can get past the nudie bits.
It is a treat seeing Peter O'Toole as the new pope, the one who commissions Michaelangelo to do a bit of work here and there-very amusing.
The Mark Smeaton parts were a bit silly, and partly for shock value and more sex, but I think they were trying to show a bit about the 'common man' and how all the men fascinated by Anne go to their doom except Thomas Wyatt, who as he says, was the only one who WAS guilty of ever having slept with her.
The scenes between Henry and Anne which used to light up the screen become more and more sad, as he realizes he has turned his whole world upside down for a woman who lies to him.
Also notice his loyal cortege of friends is now gone and the court rooms are curiously bare considering how busy the palace would have been at that time. He is frequently alone, and even in the crowd scenes, he is with one person or another manuipulating.
We start out so romantically with Anne, but soon they are barely in the same county, let alone room. (GREAT acting). The death of John Fisher and Thomas More are the beginning of the end, and Anne's paranoid delusions and pathetic attempts to get back her power are painful to watch, they are so moving.
Sad to say, Anne lasted less than 3 years, but the chaos she caused certainly makes true what he says to Chapuys--I want my reign to be remembered forever. --No doubt not the long and bloody and scandalous one it ended up being.
And yet the union of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII gave us the worst and best queens England ever had, Mary (the Bloody)and Elizabeth, and shaped its destiny just as Anne herself did.
We can never be sure how much her zeal for 'reform' was a grab for money, power, and in defiance of the church in trying to push through the divorce and marrying Henry, but there is no doubt the protestant reformation had the door opened through her and her family's cunning.
The costumes, settings and acting make this, while not perfect, certainly an excellent way to savor history and the period, and it is a lot more historically accurate and uses many of the actual documents of the time.
One complaint-why is Suffolk so wooden now-he always looks agrrieved but never says anything. By the way, keep an eye on his wife-she was slated to be wife #7 of Henry's!! but Katherine Parr lived and he died! Phew, lucky escape....
Can't wait to see how the Third Season plays out with the Seymours and how far we get with his other 4 wives...
DVD Review: Heads Roll in this Royal Soap with Important Historical Themes
Summary: 4 Stars
There might be reasons to simply dismiss Showtime's historical docudrama series on England's Tudor dynasty as a waste of time. Some might find this royal soap opera to be a royal bore. Others might quibble about historical inaccuracies. Unless you plan to use the series as preparation for a test on 16th Century London or can't seem to get excited about any video lacking a car chase, however, you should take the time to look a little closer at Season Two of "The Tudors" for several good reasons.
The first is Jeremy Northam's sobering portrayal of the courageous heroic intellectual genius of Medieval England, Sir Thomas More.
The second is to gain a real appreciation of the contributions of Henry VIII (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) to Western Civilization, spawning both the English religious reformation and England's greatest monarch, Elizabeth I.
A third is to understand the role of personal motives in historical transitions. Without his selfish attraction to Anne Boleyn (Natalie Dormer) and obsession with securing a divorce from wife number one, Henry VIII never would have challenged the Roman Catholic Church to create the Church of England.
Theatrical history indicates that Season Two of "The Tudors" likely will rank as the most dramatic, since that period has generated two powerful and lauded feature length films in "A Man for All Seasons (Special Edition)" and "Anne of the Thousand Days / Mary, Queen of Scots." This longer Showtime shot at combining those two stories demonstrates the power of TV when harnessed effectively to develop story lines in greater depth and detail.
Who needs a car chase when "The Tudors" offers multiple beheadings, graphic sex, palace intrigue and application of the royal sneer so artfully managed by Meyers?
DVD Review: the tudors, season two
Summary: 5 Stars
For the first time ever, a series has come along about Henry VIII and his lifetime pursuit of a male heir, that allows us to understand how he ever got any of these women in the first place! This Henry is young, hormonal, yummy, and to top it off, he is the most powerful man in the british isles - who could resist that??? I understand that as he aged he did become fat, was inflicted with gout, etc., but this series allows us to see him before all that happened. Bravo!!! Can't wait for season three.
Description of The Tudors - The Complete Second Season
Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/06/2009 Run time: 542 minutes Rating: NrPower, sex, delusion and tragedy were hallmarks of The Tudors: The Complete First Season, and they are all the more so in The Complete Second Season. The story of Britain's King Henry VIII (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), The Tudors is a dynamic history of a kingdom whose role on the 16th century world stage seems largely defined by Henry's narcissistic whims. Season two is very much taken up with Henry's determination to break free of papal authority in Rome and establish himself as head of England's church--all because he seeks to divorce Queen Catherine (Maria Doyle Kennedy) and marry Anne Boleyn (Natalie Dormer). Meanwhile, poor Catherine is kept locked away from court, unable to see her daughter Mary (Sarah Bolger) but refusing to relinquish her throne despite such punishment. As for Anne, she enjoys Henry's passion and commitment, but only to a point. When Henry marries her (in a union not recognized by Rome nor many British subjects) and she does not produce a male heir, his fickle attentions begin to wander, and a grand power play by Anne's father, Thomas Boleyn (Nick Dunning) begins to unravel. In time, Henry's focus shifts to soon-to-be third wife Jane Seymour (Anita Briem), whom the king sees as a symbol of his own redemption after the complications of his love life to date. Toward the end of The Complete Second Season, all the hints that Henry's lack of scruples is leading to a full-scale psychological breakdown begin to show, manifest in his many cruelties and--at the last minute--a clear sign of his notorious gluttony to come. Other stories woven into the colorful, lustful, intrigue-driven season two concern the fate of Henry's one-time mentor Sir Thomas More (Jeremy Northam), who refuses to cooperate with Henry's attempted separation from the Catholic faith and pays dearly for it. The pope himself (Peter O'Toole) turns up in sometimes near-comical responses to the king's intransigence, and the untimely fate of many interesting characters during Henry's wrathful sweep of his court proves a shocking development mid-season. All the actors are first-rate, even down to the smallest roles, and the show's spare but compelling use of nudity and sex scenes makes The Tudors powerful adult entertainment. --Tom Keogh
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