Tag: assault mention cw

among all the prestige period dramas tho, my ranking is probably like:

• tudors
  
• borgias
• versailles

(the last two are maybe tied, i never finished borgias but versailles had so much violence and was not very fast-paced besides)

granted all three had issues with gratuitous nudity of women especially, and also gratuitous assault scenes, but i do actually feel like it was least egregious in that regard was tudors (altho this is maybe just those scenes vs. total screentime otherwise that’s making me say that, because i think tudors had the most screentime overall).

like, the thomas culpeper scene did not need to be that long, at all, but it was actually based on a historic account (unlike george boleyn’s)

and also it was important that they cast torrance coombs (who is a conventionally attractive, gossip girl-casting-type) as culpeper; because so often period dramas (like poldark– which includes their main, played by a handsome actor, assaulting someone but denies it in the narrative so it doesn’t count– like borgias with lucrezia’s first husband) seem to be trying to make the point that only ugly (specifically, overweight) men can be rapists, and that is certainly not the case, and never has been.