When Conde married Elizebeth, I texted my friend "Wait is this supposed to be Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen? Or am I thinking of the wrong Elizabeth?"
I can handle making stories up about the ladies-in-waiting but can we at least get the main facts of the rulers correct? How much longer is Francis going to live for?!
The show is a work of fiction, based on true life characters and drawing from real life events. Never did they claim to be "historically accurate". Move on
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Purple monkeys are flying... There I said it, I feel better for it
That's what you can do with historicall fiction, embellish fact. It can make it interesting to think about what was really happening but I do find it it a tad confusing when they change fact all together. Francis died of the ear thing not defending Mary in a field. Don Carlos if if i remember fell from something, a bike perhaps or something else, not a sex contraption, and injured his head leading to not being fit to rule. And so on. I'm okay with the exaggerations but I do wish they'd stay a little bit more on track. Despite that I love the show. They're going a little off track too with the supernatural stuff but I suppose Bash has to have a story. I wish they hadn't killed Clarissa. That would have been totally crazy as a story line since she never actually existed!
share"Become"?!?! It was never accurate.
shareI've started binge-watching, almost through Season 2. It is hilariously historically inaccurate. Not to be taken seriously. Look at the absurd costumes! I've grown to enjoy it, on that crazy just-go-with-it level. And I can see how young women might identify, with all the female-empowerment issues and the excellent handling of Mary's rape--"you are not a victim, this is not your fault, you will survive.". (That attack was another complete fiction. A royal woman of that time who suffered such an assault would have more likely thrown herself out a window.)
The behavior of all the young women, her "ladies," is utterly loony. The manner in which they talk, gesture, carry on is strictly 21st century.
Easy to get caught up in, however, especially with Megan Follows as Catherine, who is superb, and has enough regal bearing to sometimes almost give the series a sense dignity and reality.