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May 09, 2017MartineVK rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
Manages to turn an exciting period of history into a long, boring soap. Worse still it lingers on the female actors gratuitously naked bodies. Pardon me, but my history lessons don't really need to include Elizabeth Woodville taking a bath! I feel bad for the quality actors who ended up in this POC. Michael Maloney and Janet McTeer deserve so much better than this. As for the rest of the cast, they can now put "soft-porn" on their CV. I read that the BBC version didn't have those scenes. They were added-on for the international market. As an American, albeit one who lived in the UK for many years, I am insulted that they felt people wouldn't have tried watching this without added porn. Probably was thrown in to attract male viewers who they felt wouldn't bother with a story based so much around women. It would have been better if the producers had used a better script, or based the script on something better than Phillipa Gregory's oeuvre. Her Other Boleyn Girl has made for both a terrible TV film and film made for Hollywood. Both made me cringe. This series is even worse than those two. Or at least - longer.