The Tudors - The Complete First Season

changes my mind. Such is The Tudors, a wonderful period piece & so much more. Each episode is movie production quality. Everything we know & don't know is dramatically interpereted by an excellent cast. History? Yes. Good history? Well, it is sexy & profane drama based on historical facts. I am not so brillant as some of the reviewers here that seem to know what exactly happened over 500 years ago. It is the early years of Henry's reign & he is attempting to populate the kingdom single-handedly. He seems to copulate with every woman in court. Except, of course, his wife, Catherine, who vexes him & refuses to give him a divorce & Anne who will not sleep with him until she is queen. Political alliance with the continential powers are very fluid. Spain, France The Austrian Empire, the Pope are all players as allies enemies & allies once again. Personal intrique gives The Tudors a slightly soap opera odor as characters form alliances to settle scores. I'm a little late to this series but am really looking forward to the second season.

I just love it,. This is a great showed story about King Henry 8,he was very sexy and one of the most poweful man in the world. Passion, sex, desire - love and hate- great drama .I enjoyed every episode and now I can't wait to see new sezone. SUPER !!!!!

LOVE IT! Can't wait for the next series. Our whole family has watched the whole season twice, we own it, love it love it love it! Acting is fantastic, Jonathan who plays Henry VIII is not only an amazing actor, he BECOMES Henry.... he is a master, and a gorgeous one at that. The costumes, the music, the stage sets, all so believable, really brings the Tudor story to life. Best Henry VIII saga ever! Thank you.... been waiting for this for my whole-life..... pre-ordered the next season already, and am counting the days! Best TV series by FAR.

I started watching this on television, at the second last episode, thinking it was going to be terrible. This King Henry is not a red-head, not bearded and not middle aged. I did not expect 'fat', because he was still athletic when he started wooing Anne, but the real King Henry was nearing forty.

I was very impressed.

"Henry's" acting was somewhat off the wall. The true Bluff King Hal was not angry or petulant all the time. In the next season, the acting is calmer and therefore more menacing - more of the intelligent, respected and feared monarch Henry VIII was.

The others (More, Wolsey, Brandon, Anne, Catherine): very well done. The complexities of character: very well shown by script and actors (such as the conflict between Thomas More, the humane man, versus Thomas More, the smiter of heritics)

The historical parts are skewed. They are wrong in some facts and many details, and yet right in spirit. Such as the part where Wolsey killed himself. That's not historical ... yet it's plausible that he did, and his suicide was covered up. The wildness, the menace, is there.

Well worth buying.

Passionate, exciting, spellbinding, and beautiful are all superlatives that do not do justice to this series. Henry is a true lion of the Tudor Dynasty - sexual, powerful, and cruel. He elicits admiration and fear from all he touches, and even those who veiw him on the small screen. The stories are well acted and hard to leave.

If you only have time for thrity minutes of viewing, save this for later, because you will want to watch the entire first season at once, it is so compelling.

The only flaw in this production is that it is not completely accurate historically. As a scholar of the Tudor and especially Elizabethan period these inaccuracies are noticable, but not enough so to be distractable in any way. The entire feeling or atmosphere of the period is as I have always pictured it - excessive for the wealthy and spoiled, desparate for the others, and totally insecure for all but the highest in the land!

Excellent job!! Enjoy!