2018
124 min
It's Good to Be King.
The Tudors is a history-based drama series following the young, vibrant King Henry VIII, a competitive and lustful monarch who navigates the intrigues of the English court and the human heart with equal vigor and justifiable suspicion.
S02: Henry quickly embraces Lutheran ideas, breaks with the Church, and marries Anne Boleyn, but Brandon sows seeds of doubt about his new queen's fidelity in the king's mind; a loyalty oath pits Henry against his mentor Thomas More.
S03: Henry's marriage to Jane Seymour is happy, fruitful and tragically short; the king brutally suppresses a rebellion against his religious reforms; England, Spain and the Pope ally against England, forcing Henry to marry a Protestant.
S04: Henry's marriage to randy, unfaithful teenager Catherine Howard ends in her swift execution, but he finds domestic tranquility at last with the steady Catherine Parr; a war with France and Brandon's death signal Henry's waning days.
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Premiere DateApr 1, 2007
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- Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Henry VIII of England
- Henry Cavill as Charles Brandon
- Sarah Bolger as Mary Tudor
- Max Brown as Edward Seymour
- David O'Hara as Henry Howard
- Lothaire Bluteau as Ambassador Charles de Marillac
- Tamzin Merchant as Catherine Howard
- Torrance Coombs as Thomas Culpepper
- Anthony Brophy as Ambassador Eustace Chapuys
- Laoise Murray as Princess Elizabeth Tudor
- Eoin Murtagh as Prince Edward Tudor
- Jake Hathaway as Prince Edward Tudor
- Andrew McNair as Sir Thomas Seymour
- Simon Ward as L'évêque Gardiner
- Joanne King as Jane Boleyn
- Colm Wilkinson as Lord Darcy
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References
S03E05 Problems in the Reformation
Henry remains in seclusion while mourning the queen's death, an opportunity that enemies of the crown seize to murder several friends of the court; Cromwell is disturbed when Henry doesn't resist his new church's similarities to Catholicism.
