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The tudors season 1 episode 10 beginning trial#

Excellent performances by Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Natalie Dormier - as they both have been delivering all season.Р”Р„nd so this entry into the Tudors ends. The last thing she wants now, having waited so long, is the King's child out of wedlock. And that last scene in the forest with Henry and Anne - who never looked better, partially unclothed, passionate for Henry, but saying no to him at the penultimate minute. (And cheers for James Frain and his Thomas Cromwell here, too - a powerful rendition of another man caught up in coaxing the religious upheavals of his time.)Р”Р€. Northam provided a quietly scalding performance of this sobering lesson. The lesson here is that faith which can nurture and strenghten as it did with More and his family in the epidemic can quickly embolden some of the worst instincts of humanity - like burning a Lutheran at the stake. And what a performance by Jeremy Northam as Sir Thomas More, the humanist and champion of free speech turned executioner of the heretic - driven to this by the implacable dictates of his deep faith.

The history that counts is that this once nearly all-powerful prelate fell so far from royal grace.Р”Сћ. The suicide is completely true to Wolsey's character.

The tudors season 1 episode 10 beginning trial#

Like a few crucial junctures in this series, the history may not be completely accurate - ours tells us that Wolsey died on the way to his trial and prison, nothing about committing suicide while waiting for trial. A fitting rival for an Emmy with James Purefoy's Marc Antony in Rome. What a performance, once again, by Sam Neill. It was a fine unsettling ending to the beginning of what I expect will be a glorious, long-running series.Р”РЋ. Showtime's splendid first season of The Tudors concluded last night on Showtime's On Demand.