The final episode has Anne Boleyn imprisoned on charges of treason and adultery.
Anne has also been accused of fornication with her own brother George.
Thomas Cromwell relishes playing the villain and doing the bidding of mad King Henry VIII.
Anne even has a way out to save herself. Annul the marriage and go live in a nunnery.
However Anne does not want to risk the line of succession of her daughter Elizabeth.
The casting of black actors playing Anne and George Boleyn is highlighted in this episode. The injustice, the false charges and the rigged trials. The mirror to the Black Lives Matter movement is plain to see.
You see the humiliation that Anne Boleyn has to go through now stripped of her royal privileges. The loss of her jewellery and her dignity. She cannot even use the privy in any privacy.
The real villain is King Henry, once again the actor playing him failed to make an impression.
The episode was also uneven, too interested in showing Anne's grim despair.
Anne has also been accused of fornication with her own brother George.
Thomas Cromwell relishes playing the villain and doing the bidding of mad King Henry VIII.
Anne even has a way out to save herself. Annul the marriage and go live in a nunnery.
However Anne does not want to risk the line of succession of her daughter Elizabeth.
The casting of black actors playing Anne and George Boleyn is highlighted in this episode. The injustice, the false charges and the rigged trials. The mirror to the Black Lives Matter movement is plain to see.
You see the humiliation that Anne Boleyn has to go through now stripped of her royal privileges. The loss of her jewellery and her dignity. She cannot even use the privy in any privacy.
The real villain is King Henry, once again the actor playing him failed to make an impression.
The episode was also uneven, too interested in showing Anne's grim despair.
