By the Time I Finished Watching This Show...

I had absolutely, positively no remorse for a single character. Every single character depicted was awful, and vain and even attempts to redeem them were pitiful and unconvincing to me. I only watched the end of this to see who lived an who died (as I had no prior knowledge of the history of the War of the Roses and had never read any of the books, which I hear have no basis on what actually happened anyway). I will say that watching the show prompted me to do my research and it was interesting to see the events leading up to the reign of the Tudors, a period of history we are all too familiar with and have seen depicted time and again. I'm a sucker for period pieces, even though these days they focus far too much on sex and violence for my liking, compared to how they used to be. It is quite a shame that these aspects have been included because I feel that the reasoning to add sex and violence is abused and overused and actually take away from the show. But again, it was nice to see a depiction of a period of history (however real or made up it may have been) which is not as well- known. At least, not to well-known to me, and I am certainly no history buff. That is all.