☕️ The reason ppl say they’re tired of so much of the tudors in the media is bc we keep getting the same portrayal over and over again. We get Henry angry Fat manchild king, Anne the Whore (vs good and pure Catherine and Jane), bitter old Bloody Mary and actually-weak but also old and bitter Elizabeth. It’s the same story, with the same point of view, the same worn-out tropes. The fact that you have 3 separate series on Evil Anne by Worsley, Gregory and Mantel only makes the matter worse

Hmm, disagree in that they’re identical for Anne. Worsley’s and Gregory’s and Mantel’s Annes are equally vindictive; but Gregory really focuses on discrediting her character vis á vis promiscuity. I still think Tudors’ was the best among all tv shows and movies about them; it did fall into some tropes but it was still more nuanced than AOTD, Man for All Seasons, Wolf Hall, and definitely more so with Gregory’s stuff.

I do agree that if they’re going to do another tv series (and I actually think it has to be a series; there’s not enough time to explore all the nuances of an era in a meaningful way in a movie– a mini-series at the very least), that they need to explore new angles and stop recycling the same tropes. It would have to be fresh.

And the usage of tropes is why I can’t deal with a lot of Tudor novels, honestly, so yeah– it’s often so bad and always bad and moreover bad in exactly the same ways as other ones.