Cynematik • Cyndi Greening

BY CYNDI GREENING, PHOENIX, USA – Tonight, the series finale of Showtime’s THE TUDORS is on. I’ve really been enjoying the series but I’ve read on the chat boards that this last episode is a bit boring. One post commented that they need us to come back for season two (like we wouldn’t want to find out how Anne Boleyn falls from favor and “loses her head” after only a thousand days of being wed to Henry) so nothing could be resolved but, in spite of that, the overall commentary in the blogosphere is that it is disappointing. (Maybe this means I’ll love it because my expectations are diminished.)

The thing I’m disappointed about is that they took dramatic license with the death of Princess Margaret. So many other things had been done so accurately and so well, I couldn’t believe they would alter the date of her death so severely. Margaret (who was only two years older than Henry) died five years AFTER Anne Boleyn was beheaded. In the ninth episode of the series, Princess Margaret is consumed by consumption before Henry and Anne have even married. I can’t figure out why they felt compelled to do that. It does not seem like was necessary for the drama. There were enough other things going on with Wolsey, Cromwell and the Suffolk Triumvirate. Now, I find myself double-checking all of the other facts.