Editorial Review: TV’s most sexy and scandalous hit drama is back with The Tudors: The Complete Third Season. Golden Globe winner Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Elvis) stars as a young King Henry VIII, a ruler whose reign changed the course of history forever. Now for the first time on DVD, the complete third season of this delicious and daring drama from Showtime is available in a 3 disc DVD set including every broadcast episode and loads of special features including and the first two episodes of Showtime’s hit show United States of Tara and an exclusive featurette called the Tudors Timelines. Plus unlock even more bonus features on your PC including interviews with Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Annabelle Wallis, Henry Cavill, Joss Stone, and Max Van Sydow!
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The Tudors: The Complete Third Season Reviews: Prelude? 2009-12-23 - First, I LOVE this show but this season I felt was weaker than the previous two. The previous two seasons had left me drooling for more--this one however kinda left me wondering how the next seasons will be. On another note though I kind of feel like there is a lot about to happen based on all the introduction of the new wives and other characters. As usual the cinematography is high quality and acting is great. I still have to give this 4 stars for being such high quality-I'd give a 3 1/2 for it being a ''filler'' season.
The Dubious Choices of an Amoral King 2009-12-21 - While the first two seasons presented King Henry VIII as a young, hedonistic king, Season 3 gives viewers a unique opportunity to consider, historically, what may have been if he had been a less capricious and more morally serious and intellectually-principled statesman.
What sort of king could Henry VIII have been if the gentle, tolerant and politically savvy Jane Seymour had remained long enough to exert substantive influence on her husband? Perhaps he would have been compared to a middle-age Solomon as opposed to a Dionysian - "Neroesque" figure.
What would have happened if the King hadn't eventually turned on his trusted advisor, Thomas Cromwell (and ultimately engineered his economic and political destruction)? Conversely, what would have happened if Henry had rid of himself of Cromwell sooner? Would there still have been an uprising against the king? Would the bloodshed that resulted from those uprising been averted?
For those of you who have watched Seasons 1 and 2, it is interesting to contrast Cromwell's gradual and humiliating fall from grace with the shift, cool and profoundly dignified dismantling of his intellectual, philosophical and political rival, Sir Thomas More.
Jane Seymour and Thomas Cromwell are presented in the season 3 as Henry VIII's super ego (his always self-conscious angels) and id (the demons which seems to grow ever stronger as the King's youthful vitality slips away).
King Henry's story is quickly coming to a close. Cumulatively, the King had six wives. The fourth and fifth wives of the King are introduced in this season--- there is Anne of Cleves who makes a brief and powerful impression on the viewer (she is essentially the Protestant version of Catherine of Aragon -- which may explain the King's visceral reaction to her) and Katherine Howard, who is presented as such a cipher that she makes virtually no impression at all.
I am extremely impressed with this series. Even those who are not well-versed in history know what transpired during the Tudors' reign. But this show somehow manages to maintain a fresh perspective on said events.
Season 3 is a must-see.
Fantastic 2009-12-17 - As a history buff, I find the series extremely fun to watch. If you slept through history in school, this series will interest you, as it is a sanitized way to learn history about Henry. Henry VIII's role taking a nation to break away from the Catholic Church, and his wives show how one person can forever change the course of history. The artistic license from the writers makes it a fun series, although it is filmed at a castle in Ireland- a country he could never get to fall in line.
Three More Wives 2009-12-16 - "The Tudors", Season 3
Three More Wives on Season 3
Amos Lassen
As "The Tudors" rolled into its third season, Jonathan Rhys Meyers gives his best performances as Henry VIII. This is a whirlwind season but it belongs solidly to Meyers. He goes through three wives in season three and finally gets a son but it is again Meyers who wears Henry VIII like a tailored suit. Forget historical accuracy and just enjoy the show for the beauty that it is. It's the scenery and the costumes and the breathtaking cinematography that I love so much and it is fun to watch England being threatened by rebels when there is romantic entanglement going on. We are nearing the death of the monarch and I can only hope that will not mean the end of "The Tudors". History continued and hopefully Showtime will continue with the series.
Why not Blu-Ray??? 2009-12-16 - While I like the show and would buy all threee seasons, I don't buy non-high def DVD's. I'll never purchase this series until it is released on Blu-Ray. It was shot in high-def and is shown that way.. Why wait???
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