Anne Boleyn

This would be like casting Tom cruise as Mohammed Ali, or the last samari which was just as stupid but his role there I do not believe in anyway was political. Even Jesus movies using a white guy obviously is not accurate.. that has just been going on for 2 thousand years. Watching it I passed on because I know that no matter how amazing a job any of the actors or actresses do the politics behind the role is just silly.. I feel like this is more blatantly casted due to the modern social issues.... I think this is fine with fictional characters .. like Cast anyone as say Sherlock Holmes, Santa clause, ... maybe this show has 0 to do with history in which case the name is the stupid part... I'd feel the same if they casted Sally field as Michelle Obama in a story about them two. I'd feel it's political and a calculated idea and agenda.

Just another soap opera in historical costumes like so many, lazy writing, acting is okay. Fishing for compliments by putting up some "controversy" by casting choices - yawn. All in all a disappointing affair, the costumes are the best feature in this production - not recommended for the connoisseur of the genre of historical drama.

Where is the cancel culture outcry now? Or do you think it only goes one way?

The acting was okay, but I couldn't get past the fact that the producers and directors were trying to use shock value to get attention for a story that's been told in better ways. It just seems so.... exculpatory.

We tried watching it a couple times over a week and really couldn't get past the third episode before we gave up as we would never really watch it and it just became background noise. If you really have to have the TV on I'd recommend professional golf as it is better to have that in the background.

Why instead of taking the actual history out of "historical fiction" didn't they do the same thing as Bridgerton and create a story that isn't based in our traditional history but in an alternate world where the main character could tell us HER story, rather than the story of a white girl that's been told 100 times before. I'd be much more interested in that.

This series has created a fairly large 'noise' through casting choices. It might be confusing to some as to why they chose to cast this way - well 1 episode is enough to know why.. It's the only way people would pay attention to it, the show cannot stand on it's own feet as a drama or even historic show. Really awful writing, and it skips over important historical information.

Not worth the data to watch it unfortunately.