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Re: The Tudors
I was fairly dissappointed in the first two episodes. Showtime has been on a roll with two very good series (Dexter, which quickly became a favorite of mine; and Weeds, which is at times very funny) but this show really seems to miss the mark.
It's as though it seems to make the telling very "jazzed up" but it comes off as so blah that it creates a whole new definition of "showing up for a check". Most of the actors looked as though they were sleep walking through their roles, and the entire affair in regards to the French was so weirdly played as to come off very petty and strange.
If you're going to go for this kind of telling, HBO's "Rome" nailed it with it's crafty narrative and secondary characters who became the in for the at home audience. This is a story that really fails to involve the audience, or give us a secondary protagonist to follow and have a different perspective on events. As such, Myers comes off as more goofy. This will sound very strange, but reminds me in this role of Sting as Harkonen in Dune. Just weirdly out of place.
The sex scenes in this were not meant as backdrop and societal means as was present in Rome, where it was sensual, interesting and at times provided great plot movement.. instead, it came off as very blah, even the handling of the daughter came across so lacking in any real vibe that it may be one of the most boring sex scenes I've ever noticed on film.
I'm hoping this improves, but I'm not betting on it. C-
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Re: The Tudors
I think this was Showtime's answer to Rome but it pales in comparison. Chris has pretty much nailed what ails The Tudors, but I just want to add that the performances are so wanting, so amateurish, so downright awful, that any weaknesses in the script become glaring. Everyone in the cast of Rome deserves BAFTA's in comparison. The CGI is also a noticable eyesore, something that totally takes you out of the story.
And while there is some nudity in the first show (altough it doesn't hold a candle to episode 9 of Rome), it drops off the nothing by the second ep.
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- Joined: July 1997
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Re: The Tudors
I have to admit, if you've got OnDemand, watch through to Episode 4. This show take an unintended comic kind of element and in taking itself so seriously has become absolutely HYSTERICAL. I found myself laughing out loud at the sheer 'badness' of Episode 3, and Episode 4 seemed to go out of it's way to top it.
This show is like a large budget gone horribly, terribly wrong. But it is DAMN funny. I mean, it's not intending to be funny, but the way dialog is delivered in this show is a riot.
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Re: The Tudors
wow, I love the series....
Lo, there do I see my mother, and my sisters, and my brothers, Lo, there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning, Lo, they do call to me, they bid me take my place among them, In the halls of Valhalla,where the brave may live...
- Joined: December 2000
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Re: The Tudors
no one talks about this show... Season 2 is fantastic so far, especially the episode of the sir thomas beheading
Lo, there do I see my mother, and my sisters, and my brothers, Lo, there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning, Lo, they do call to me, they bid me take my place among them, In the halls of Valhalla,where the brave may live...
