The Tudors - S II, E II

Currently rewatching Showtime's great mantlepiece, The Tudors, having just reached into the second season. The actors are great; Rhys-Meyers has likely made his life's foremost incarnation of England's most infortunate (in dubious terms) monarch, and Peter O'Toole is strikingly good as the scheming Pope. And I am yet to savor sweet Joss Stone and spellbinding Max von Sydow, great even for his lifetime of reputation and achievement. My favorite, however, would be Antony Brophy's wonderful omnipresent and omnibenevolent Ambassador Eustace Chapuys. So here is a question; do you enjoy history or a good, juicy scheme you'd rather not be part of yourself? Have you not seen it? Thinking still of not to? Fuh-Geehd Ab-Aout'it-te!

PS: I watched Season One once... stayed my eyes a few years, and then watched all four in a row. One... great... row. I may yet repeat it, many times... So long for "just" 38 episodes, and yet, under the steep, intoxicating guidance of Michael Hirst, 308 would have been more like it B-)

Incarnation of power... JRM, all sumptuous, charismatic and devilishly addictive.