The Tudors : Complete BBC Series 1 - Limited Edition 'Headless' Sleeve (Exclusive to Amazon.co.uk)

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Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 5050350596314 Format: Digital Sound Label: Sony Pictures Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Number Of Items: 3 Publisher: Sony Pictures Region Code: 2 Release Date: 2007-12-10 Studio: Sony Pictures
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Editorial Reviews: Pulling few punches and garnering its fair share of headlines as a result, The Tudors is a controversial yet compelling period piece that dramatically tells the story of the early years of King Henry VIII. Not for nothing, though, has it attracted its fair share of awards attention. The Tudors is a complex drama, and not one to simplify its storyline. The young Henry, for instance, is exploring his muddled romances and his insecurities against the challenges his kingdom is facing. It’s a plateful for him to deal with, and in the hands of a superb performance from Jonathan Rhys Meyers--a real revelation in the role--as the young Henry, it’s all vividly and skillfully knitted together. But The Tudors isn’t just about its central character, for there’s a terrific supporting cast at work here too. Sam Neill’s Cardinal Wolsey, Jeremy Northam’s Thomas More and Natalie Dormer’s Ann Boleyn are just some who earn plaudits here. Behind the camera there’s the pen of Elizabeth writer Michael Hirst at work, and he too deserves much credit, clearly getting his teeth into the fascinating subject matter. The Tudors is, undoubtedly, a graphic production, and earns its 15 certificate comfortably. It’s also been knocked for the liberties it takes with history when putting its story across--with some justification. But it’s also most certainly terrific television, mixing high production values with strong performances. In short, the ten episodes here will simply have you thirsting for the next series. Not before you’ve re-watched season one a few times, though… --Jon Foster
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: The Tudors. Complete series 1 Limited edition Headless Sleeve Comment: A truly fantastic 1st series. What can you say . A very familiar story given a new lease of life. The acting is superb. The costumes are amazing. And the story of the Tudors has so much detail in this series which makes a wonderful change from the usual 1 1/2 hour films in which Henry gets through all of his 6 wives in that time. This series has ten episodes and still he has yet to marry Ann Boleyn. Even though some of the content is not historically correct and Jonathon Rhys Myers is a very handsome King Henry. Its minor details . It does not distract from how good this series is. As far as the history goes people could learn a lot from this series if the Tudor era is unfamiliar to them. The 2nd series is just as good and I will be buying the DVD. Roll on series 3. This latest production of the story of the Tudors is a triumph. Customer Rating: Summary: GREAT SHOW! Comment: You seem to get so many people criticising the show for it's inaccuricies, but the show is great in actually making a part of history fun and interesting again, which makes us strive for more! The reason i say this is that i am a young person and actually couldn't remember covering of many parts this subject at school, but the show was portrayed in such away that it made me want to reasearch the subject further which i am pleased to have now done.... Also the acting is superb, and i believe that Natalie is by far one of the best actresses to portray Anne Boleyn. Bring on season 3! Customer Rating: Summary: Entertaining historical fiction - no accurate history lesson Comment: I suppose one can safely say that a TV drama is not proper history lesson and has to keep the audience entertained and not bored with too much historical details. Well, entertaining it is. The Tudors are presented like a 16th century soap opera played. It is a costume drama of first order, nicely and opulently set in scenes. His historical fiction television series created and entirely written by British screenwriter Michael Hirst is quite obessed by male beauty - the gym-trained and nicely to look at bodies of Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Henry VIII) and Henry Cavill (Duke of Suffolk) feature largely and often in this drama. Sex plays a prominient role, even showing Henry VIII jerking off. In terms of a history lesson the series is actaullay not too bad: all in all it tells the story correctly. But still here are the greatest reservations. Most of the reviewers have commented alraedy of the character of Henry's sister, called "Princess Margaret" in the series, is actually a composite of his two sisters: the life events of his youngest sister, Princess Mary Tudor, coupled with the name of his eldest sister, Margaret Tudor (official explanation: to avoid confusion with Henry's daughter, Mary I of England, my comment: one should not treat viewers as too stupid and should gives thme the capacity to distinguish two persons with the same name, one here being a child the other a grown woman). While Bessie Blount was famously one of Henry VIII's mistresses and did give Henry an illegitimate son (Henry FitzRoy), historically, her son did not die as a small child.Cardinal Wolsey was not imprisoned and did not commit suicide. And there are many more points one could comment on. So all in all, this is historical fiction and it is entertaining. Nothing more, nothing less. If one wants a proper history lesson one needs to read a book and not wtach TV. Customer Rating: Summary: Tudors 'historical' drama Comment: First of all, I'd like to point out the mistakes made in the other reviews: amazon has described this as telling the story of Henry VIII's early years, yet the series starts around 16 years into his reign, although a few of the events shown happened earlier (which shows in itself how 'historical' this drama is). I have read the comments posted on internet sites about how, despite the inaccuracies, it shouldn't be taken too seriously as it is a tv show. However, this is how the majority of people who don't study history learn about important periods of our history. Furthermore, I could ignore a few mistakes, but I think its rather pathetic that the writers can't get the names of the principal characters right or important events in the right order, make characters up for the sake of insignificant story lines, or that, in only the first two minutes of the first episode we can quite clearly see plug sockets, electric lighting, light switches and i.d. card machines. The acting leaves a lot to be desired on many occasions, the casting is somewhat dubious (Henry in particular could not be further from the historical image we can quite easily put together) and many points are laboured and dumbed-down. Character introductions are shoe-horned into scenes in case the more stupid amongst us missed it and terms such as 'humanism' thrown in to sound intelligent. It is a shame that both the writing and scenery are so poor considering the amount of effort that has been put into making this drama visually impressive. I have at least found this series entertaining, it is a reasonably good drama, about someone called King Henry VIII. Beyond this fact, however, it bears little resemblence to the life it is supposedly portraying. There is no excuse or reason for so many obvious mistakes when spending so much on a series. Customer Rating: Summary: Woe Verily Woe Comment: The real tragedy of this series is that there will be viewers on both sides of the Atlantic who think that it portrays true historical fact as far as is known. Portuguese viewers - if any - will perhaps wonder which of their early 16th Century kings married an English princess who subsequently smothered him with a nuptial pillow. They will have difficulty in finding him! Dramatic licence is one thing, but a complete alteration of well-documented History represented as the truth is quite another. The real historical events were dramatic enough - so why change them? I suspect that one reason was that they got the date sequence so hopelessly mixed up that by the time they got to the marriage story concerning Henry's younger sister - in fact Mary Rose not Margaret (who was by this time Dowager Queen of Scots) King Louis XII of France - the true bridegroom - was long dead and Francois I on the French throne and already married. It was also a pity that the characterisation presented by Rhys Meyers failed to portray the undoubted intellectual and musical talents possessed by Henry VIII, showing him instead passing most of his time ranting at his courtiers, fornicating with any available lady in waiting and charging about in the tiltyard. Having said all this, some of the events were well-portrayed e.g. the Field of Cloth of Gold, and some of the characters - Wolsey, More, Cromwell, Queen Catherine more convincingly developed. One amazing feature which the series did show brilliantly was the little-known fact that the Royal Physicians had discovered an elixir which when taken totally arrested the ageing process. This explains why, although the series covers a period of 15-20 years and reaches a point at which Henry is in his late thirties, no one looks a day older! Anyone seeking a more accurate and convincing dramatisation of the reign of Henry VIII should look no further than Keith Michell's performance in the BBC TV series "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" from the early 1970s. More Reviews