Tudors season brings new queen
There's a moment of amazing grace and subtlety in tonight's third-season premiere of The Tudors, when Jona-than Rhys Meyers' petulant, moody and dangerous King Henry VIII bends down and kisses his estranged daughter, Princess Mary Tudor, on the forehead.
Her mother, Queen Catherine of Aragon, has died and Mary herself, who will grow up to become the Bloody Mary of the historical texts, has had to renounce her Catholic faith, in writing, or else face the same fate that befell Anne Boleyn. Sarah Bolger, as Princess Mary, has an almost luminous presence and the conflicting emotions that sweep across her face as Rhys Meyers' Henry VIII kisses her tell a whole story in their own right.
The third season opens slowly with Lady Jane Seymour's (Annabelle Wallis) coronation postponed, thanks to an outbreak of plague and an uprising in the Yorkshire countryside against Henry VIII's Protestant reformation.
The dialogue has a modern ring, despite its historical underpinnings, as when Lady Jane tells her lady-in-waiting, "Women are much put upon in this world. It is my desire, as much as I can, to promote their interests. I must do it quietly, but I will do it just the same." (CBC - 9 p.m.)
Her mother, Queen Catherine of Aragon, has died and Mary herself, who will grow up to become the Bloody Mary of the historical texts, has had to renounce her Catholic faith, in writing, or else face the same fate that befell Anne Boleyn. Sarah Bolger, as Princess Mary, has an almost luminous presence and the conflicting emotions that sweep across her face as Rhys Meyers' Henry VIII kisses her tell a whole story in their own right.
The third season opens slowly with Lady Jane Seymour's (Annabelle Wallis) coronation postponed, thanks to an outbreak of plague and an uprising in the Yorkshire countryside against Henry VIII's Protestant reformation.
The dialogue has a modern ring, despite its historical underpinnings, as when Lady Jane tells her lady-in-waiting, "Women are much put upon in this world. It is my desire, as much as I can, to promote their interests. I must do it quietly, but I will do it just the same." (CBC - 9 p.m.)
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PS: No I don't have Showtime and this is probably something my mother would watch, except it's not a PBS show (that's all she watches..,plus the evening network news while washing dishes).
I never watch what my parents watch, and they never watch what I watch, even when I tell them to. They just look for 10 seconds and walk away.
One time my best friend was actually in our house for once & I wasn't home, so he waited & watched our old B & W Zenith 20" TV and within minutes it started smoking and ceased working & it had to be unplugged. The first time he got to watch our TV and it turned into toast on the spot! That just screams "upset the electronic atmosphere" to me!
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I checked in with twitter and found this concurrent with my post here:
DeborahGibson "Smokin in the Boys Room" and "Hotel California" on different radio stations. Torn. Tuff call. But, Eagles win!
I never watch what my parents watch, and they never watch what I watch, even when I tell them to. They just look for 10 seconds and walk away.
One time my best friend was actually in our house for once & I wasn't home, so he waited & watched our old B & W Zenith 20" TV and within minutes it started smoking and ceased working & it had to be unplugged. The first time he got to watch our TV and it turned into toast on the spot! That just screams "upset the electronic atmosphere" to me!
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I checked in with twitter and found this concurrent with my post here:
DeborahGibson "Smokin in the Boys Room" and "Hotel California" on different radio stations. Torn. Tuff call. But, Eagles win!
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