Airs: Sundays at 9 PM
Network: Showtime
Rating: TV-MA rating
Cast:
- Jonathan Rhys Meyers
- Natalie Dormer
- Henry Cavill
- Peter O'Toole
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Review - "The Tudors"
Reviewer: Charise Payne
Rating:
Showtime’s original series "The Tudors" returns this season, sexy as hell and with acting that doesn’t disappoint. This season begins with plenty of mystery and intrigue. The audience is slammed back into the reality of the king’s court with a poisoning, an assassination attempt, a mystifying would-be-murderer looming in the caverns, and the knowledge that a beheading or two is still to come. The games are being played, and the audience must figure out who is loyal to whom before the final hand is played.
The first episode begins where Michael Hirst, the writer and producer of "The Tudors", left off last season with King Henry VIII (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), desperately trying to convince the Catholic church to allow him to divorce his wife, Queen Katherine of Aragon (Maria Doyle Kennedy), so he can marry the intriguing and sensual Anne Boleyn (Natalie Dormer).
This season we have lost some of the main players from last season: Cardinal Wolsey (Sam Niel), Anthony Knivert (Callum Blue). We will also soon lose Thomas More (Jeremy Northam), King Henry's adviser, who will quit his job, form a rebellion, and get himself beheaded. A few new characters add to the volatile dynamics of the show, such as musician Mark Smeaton (David Alpay) and wickedly delightful Pope Paul III (Peter O'Toole). And don’t fret ladies, our favorite bad boy, the king’s best friend and lover of ladies, Charles Brandon (Henry Cavill) is still here. He has grown up, gotten properly married, entered into politics, and finds himself siding with Queen Katherine regarding the king’s divorce.
And then we have Anne. Poor Anne. The king’s second wife and mother of his soon-to-be-born daughter, the greatest queen in history, Queen Elizabeth I, has to fight this year to be a mother, a queen and a wife. Sadly, we all know she loses.
But until the ax falls and Anne loses her head, "The Tudors" will satisfy any naughty craving. Whether it be lust, politics, sex, drama or just really great fashion, "The Tudors" has it all.
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