Episode reaction: The Tudors 101, or, is it too soon to get a Team Wolsey badge?

[lizbee]

Okay, you all fail for not telling me that Sam Neill and Jeremy Northam were in The Tudors.  I love Jeremy Northam!  He's so handsome and dry and did I mention handsome?  Also, Sam Neill!  As Cardinal Wolsey!  Hanging around in the shadows and pursuing his own agenda and leaving behind an architectural/artistic legacy after his schemes fall apart!

Fine, so I wanted to watch it because there are so many vaguely Tudorish elements in Gallifreyan costume, and then I found myself looking at hi-res publicity pics from The Tudors and it was all so pretty, and then I realised that the series opens with Sean Pertwee being murdered -- I can't say that I didn't pick it up for purely nerdish reasons.  And I'm going to keep watching for purely nerdish reasons.  (Because I'm sure as hell not watching for the accurate depiction of historical events!)  But it's sort of fabulous in its own right, even though I hate Henry VIII and his many upholstery-based costumes.

The point is that I love Sam Neill, and his Wolsey is a scheming schemer who schemes quite a bit.  And I love Jeremy Northam even more, and there's a scene where he takes his shirt off and prays in Latin.  Shallow and easily satisfied?  Moi?  Um, yes please!

Comments

[kizmet-42.livejournal.com]

Ok, we fail, but so does the Tudors.

[airie-fairy.livejournal.com]

I love Jeremy Northam as well, and I have a promotional disc with the first three episodes on it. Now that you bring up the information that "there's a scene where he takes his shirt off and prays in Latin," I'm totally going to have to unwrap it.

It helps that I love Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as well. Though I do deeply miss the days when he was stick-skinny.

[zauberer-sirin.livejournal.com]

Jeremy Northam is one of my favourite actors ever and he is gorgeous on The Tudors. The show itself is quite cracky and bad but I continue to watch it for Teh Northam.

Have you seen Mamet's The Winslow Boy? Cause that's my favourite Jeremy role ever.

[tempestsarekind.livejournal.com]

Hee. I still haven't seen The Tudors, in large part because I am not sure, given my love for Jeremy Northam, that I can handle feeling *that* way about Thomas More.

*schemes*

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

YOU WANT SAM NEILL TO PLAY BRAX DON'T YOU

Re: *schemes*

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

At one point he's sort of using the same inflections? And I WRIGGLED!

Re: *schemes*

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

awwwwe! you are crazy but i love you.

[peace-bloom.livejournal.com]

i'm sure i've ranted at you about the awesomeness of the tudors!

it is softcore pr0n made 'legit' my masquerading at srs hiztree! thus? made of win.

[copracat]

Ha! My first thought on seeing your icon was 'Is that Cardinal Sam Neil? Awesome!' I'd not bothered with The Tudors because really, once you've had Keith Michell what more is there?

[calapine.livejournal.com]

Terrible fibs! I've totally AT LEAST ONCE mentioned Sam Neil as ONE OF MY EXCUSES FOR WATCHING TUDORS WITH AWESOME FANNISH GLEE.

Oh, I love it, I love it, I love it. THE PACING MAKES ME WEEP WITH JOY.

[tree_and_leaf]

As Cardinal Wolsey! Hanging around in the shadows and pursuing his own agenda and leaving behind an architectural/artistic legacy after his schemes fall apart!

I am vaguely worried by the fact that I read that and thought 'she makes him sound like Braxitel'.

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

I did? How very careless of me!

[rivrea.livejournal.com]

Wait.

There's Jeremy Northam in it? I was only told about Jonathan Rhys-Myers and his magnificent eye-liner. But Jeremy Northam? Damn.

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

I know, I had to find out for myself when he turned up in the credits. Seriously, someone really dropped the pimping ball on this one.