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The Tudors focuses on the rarely dramatized, tumultuous early years of King Henry VIII of England';s nearly 40-year, omnipotent reign (1509-1547). Jonathan Rhys Meyers is all dash and panache as the star of the historical soap opera, which bursts at the seams with sex, political intrigue, sex, dangerous court liaisons and sex.
For all the heavy breathing, it's dramatically dead, so that even while it offers "sympathetic" views of sometimes maligned historical figures, one never feels involved with them or their fates.
Anglophiles will scoff at the sloppiness with historical detail. Anyone else is going to be confused at why they're not seeing someone like Oliver Platt play Henry VIII
Still, for all its ferocious ambition to be more than just another heavily corseted, respectful historical drama, "The Tudors" falls flat in more than one arena.