Michael Hirst learned his lesson & it shows.
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Trust me, if y’all think The Tudors is preventing you from objectively watching/snarking Vikings: think again. They’re not 100% accurate, but a great deal closer than her work on The Tudors.
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The costumes are by the same designer who worked with Hirst on The Tudors, but she clearly did much more research this time. Now, I’ll give it to Michael Hirst that he’s at least come a long way from soaping up for tv’s sake actual historic events, particularly with Vikings. I LOVE this time period & know the details pretty well from reading Ives & Allison Weir, etc…while it irked me to see such a fantastic tale on its own made into basically a soap opera, I can appreciate it for what it is. Of course it’s still just a soaped up tale of it all & by season 3 Michael Hirst reverts back to playing fast & loose with history, amping up the sexual side of it all. Especially regarding certain scenes(Catherine still making Henry’s shirts, Anne’s pleading with Henry while carrying Elizabeth, her arrest & what she said when they came for, as well as her imprisonment & execution speech.) All of those aspects were taken directly from THE ultimate source for all things Anne Boleyn: Eric Ives’ The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn. If you’re even fairly familiar with all the machinations that lead up to Anne’s fall, you do see a real turn around in the 2nd session. I agree the 1st season was playing very fast & loose with history, but Natalie Dormer literally begged Michael Hirst to go MORE historically accurate with her character of Anne Boleyn & he decided Natalie could handle it. Give me your barely-covered nipples! Your hot glue gun! Your hairless bimbos! And, now that I’m watching it (I’m about 3/4 of the way through season 1), I Have Questions. I want to watch this train wreck and see how it pans out. “Hey! I can take up gardening instead!”īut me? I missed the party! Apparently I was stuck in stage #1, ignoring its existence and living out my merry life. I don’t deserve dresses that come up OVER the shoulder.”
#THE TUDORS SEASON 1 EPISODE 10 EXPLANATION SERIES#
Life is a series of endless rounds of suspiciously waxed bimbos hopping into bed with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. “I will binge-watch this show, because there’s no point, no one cares about history or accuracy or quality.
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“If I promise to be really really good, will you make Jonathan Rhys Meyers 6’2″ and give him red hair?” You’ve all been horrified by The Tudors and worked your way through the five stages of grief: But then I went and watched the Jane Seymour episodes for that post, and then I reread The Creation of Anne Boleyn, and I found myself interested in how they portrayed Anne Boleyn, and so I went back to episode 1 and started watching it. I had completely resisted watching The Tudors when it aired from 2007 to 2010 and when it went to DVD and streaming, because: Those costumes! Jonathan Rhys Meyers! All the boobs! All I had seen was the first episode, which I didn’t really watch since we were live-podcasting and basically snarking up a storm.