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Review: ‘The Tudors’

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When Henry VIII put his second wife, Anne Boleyn, to death, he clearly was not considering the deleterious effect it would have on the Showtime series ““The Tudors.”

Although such self-centered shortsightedness is the historic right of princes, it’s a bit of a drag for the show’s fans. Because though the new queen -- poor, doomed Jane Seymour (Annabelle Wallis) -- is lovely and, in this version, surprisingly feminist, she does not have the increasingly desperate scheme-and-sizzle factor (or, for that matter, the super-hot nightgowns) of our gal Anne (Natalie Dormer).

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But then Henry (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is older now and feeling it. As intra-court treachery, domestic issues (see above) and, of course, the Reformation roil around him, he is growing increasingly sweaty, psycho and septic (old leg wound). He also really, really needs to have a son, and, as even modern couples know, that kind of procreative pressure can take all the fun out of sex.

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