The Tudors on SKY anytime.

An Endemol version of the Tudor dynasty..

did you enjoy it Guinness ?

I quite enjoyed the series, though the only downside was the lead characters refusal to be padded out to look completely bloated in his later life thus though ill he was being portrayed as slim as he was when when he married wife one to when he married wife number six which was totally pathetic imo.

^ as i've not watched the whole series I cant comment,saying that history tells us he ended up a porker

A porker of humongous proportions

A late in life suit of his armour

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thnx,I love history.

To be fair it doesn't really ruin the series, its only relevant in the last series anyhow.

thnx.

They were certainly a randy lot back then

Hearts: I thought it was utter garbage, although the totty was first class.

Henry was a 6ft 2in bull of a man, so why they got an overgrown faerie to play him is beyond my comprehension. I think he was something like 42 when he married Anne Boleyn (and porkier) yet in this series Henry aged about 12 days throughout all 4 series..

My quip about Endemol (ageist company) is about the youth that they got to play the lead roles..

I've just noticed what pumpy said, so there's 5 mins of my life i won't get back..

tbf I was and still am enthralled by the story..................was delighted when the earl of buckingham got the chop lol. Really looking forward to the rest of the series.

ps more about the story for me.

It was a fantastic period in Engerlish history. Henry's Da was the real star though..

That's why the series didn't cut it for me, i saw it as disrespectful..

he does come over as very insecure and totally insane in the tudors. assume totally made up for dramatic purposes but line that best sums it is when the spanish ambassador says something like i am certain your majesty's reign will be remembered forever and he obviously doesn't mean it as a compliment

life obviously was very cheap back then. there's hardly a nobleman that doesn't end up going to the block

suppose it's hard for a modern audience to understand just important it was to produce a male heir. ironically of course the queen he had killed for not producing a male heir anne boleyn produced arguably the greatest monarch in english history in elizabeth

guinness2dear 27 Jul 14 20:47


Henry was a 6ft 2in bull of a man, so why they got an overgrown faerie to play him is beyond my comprehension. I think he was something like 42 when he married Anne Boleyn (and porkier) yet in this series Henry aged about 12 days throughout all 4 series..

Agreed.  It's the elephant in the room, isn't it?.  Or rather, it isn't.