The Tudors Season Two- Episode 2

Season two of the Showtime series The Tudors is off to a slow start. Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn are just about to marry.

The Tudors season 2 is off to a bit of a slow start. So far Katherine of Aragon has been banished to the Moors, while Anne Boleyn is elevated to Marquise of Pembrook. Episode Two brought back my favorite Renaissance King, François I. The actor who plays François does a superb job and unlike Jonathan Rhys Meyers, actually looks the part. Don’t get me wrong though, Meyers does a great job recapturing the impetuous and increasingly dangerous personality of Henry VIII. I am anxious to see how Natalie Dormer, who plays Anne Boleyn, evolves over the next season when her star begins to fade as the new Queen of England. Episode two brought back Mary Boleyn, though she is a rather one-dimensional character who adds little interest to the show and should have been left alone. Mark Smeaton makes his first appearance in episode two.

I nudged my husband when Smeaton was introduced and whispered “Guess what happens to him.”

By now he knows when I ask that, the person in question is eventually beheaded.