Anne Boleyn (TV Mini Series) Episode #1.2 (2021) User Reviews

Something is missing, and I don't just mean a good script.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 4/10 · 2 June 2021]

Let's be honest, they blew it with Part one, regardless of your view on the casting, it played out like an amateur dramatics production, and was riddled with mistakes throughout.

First of all, I'll start with the major positive, Jodie Turner Smith, I truly thought her acting was excellent, she stood head and shoulders above everyone else, I felt her passion and desperation, but once again the script just lacked a joie de vivre. Mark Stanley's characterisation of Henry was a little disappointing, again the a script did him no favours.

This was better than the first episode, and I can see what they were trying to do, there is a glimpse of something here, there are snippets of a good story, more effort clearly here, to tell a story, it's just all a little too late.

Flippantly I expected Anne to be tucked up with Anne of Cleves, or getting her teeth whitened with Catherine Parr.

In summary, it good?.....not really, is it better than the first episode?..... massively!!!

Maybe if they'd made a fictional drama, with made up names, it would have faired a lot better, it's just hard to associate any of this with history.

A drama such as this should be lavish, and decadent, it promised to be daring, and bold, sadly despite an improvement, it's still weak, 4/10.

One more to go, I'm glad it's not a six part series.

Episode 2

[Prismark10 · 4/10 · 16 June 2021]

The second episode works well with the metaphor of the black casting of Anne and George Boleyn.

They are seen as marginalised and under pressure in a society that has turned against them.

Anne has miscarried but still tries to carry out her duties as Queen. She also discovers a plot relating to the Spanish ambassador. Apparently a back door deal is being concocted with Spain through Thomas Cromwell.

This might not be enough to save Anne. Henry has tired of her and is looking elsewhere.

There is more urgency in this episode but it is still no great shakes. I think Jodie Turner-Smith is very good but I am still left unimpressed by Mark Stanley's King Henry VIII.

I noticed that this production chooses not show any castles and stately homes. I guess those that were built 500 years ago would had been brand new then!

a racial manifesto

[Kirpianuscus · 30 June 2021]

Th clash between a generous subject and a modest script represents the main problem of series. This episode reflects, in powerful manner, the meaning of series - to remind the oppression against Black people . In some measure, except the silly solutions of salvation of Anne, this racial manifesto is one of huge mistakes of episode. Not because its place is bad, but because it is awful made. You know the story, you know the characters . And, against appeciation for the hard try to save the series from Jodie Turner Smith, the pieces of fall are so precise placed.