In its first season, Showtime's "The Tudors" so often strayed into romantic fantasy that I developed one of my own. In my version of the oft-told tale of the king who took six wives, Henry VIII (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) comes to his senses and finds...

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In its depiction of the early reigning years of Henry VIII, “The Tudors,” which returns on Sunday for its second somnolent season on Showtime, plays a game of historical hopscotch. Timelines are abbreviated, papacies are rearranged, and while...
Frothy and modest fun, "The Tudors" picks right up where the first season left off, with doe-eyed Anne Boleyn -- guided by her utterly ruthless father -- leading King Henry VIII around by his, er, royal scepter. Mixing equal parts court intrigue...