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The White Queen
Season 1 Premiere: 2013
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7.4
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Generally Favorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
70
64% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
36% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
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Queen delivers the basic goods (intrigue, sex) , but the only vivid character is Margaret Beaufort, mom of the future Henry VII. She's played by Amanda Hale with startling neuritic fervor. [12 Aug 2013]
Absurd but engrossing War of the Roses-era drama. [9 Aug 2013, p.73]
It may not have the production values of those shows [The Tudors or The Borgias], but it does have an Irons, who, along with the rest of the cast, makes The White Queen an entertaining romp through a complicated and fascinating period of English history.
Adapted from three overlapping page-turners by the prolific Philippa Gregory, this enjoyably propulsive high melodrama replays the classic Wars of the Roses family feud (York vs. Lancaster) from the perspective of the women who are both pawns and players in a violent, turbulent game of claiming and keeping the English throne.
Each of them [actresses Rebecca Ferguson, Faye Marsay and Amanda Hale] stabs backs and pops bodice buttons with the necessary élan while keeping a straight face at The White Queen’s putative moral, which is that arranged marriages are corrupt and evil, while those born of attempted rape, self-mutilation and suicide are sacred and empowering.
Its success is due largely to the costumes, set dressing, and comeliness of the two leads, a smoldering Max Irons (son of Jeremy) and radiant Swedish actress Rebecca Ferguson.... The problem with The White Queen is its pace, slowed by ponderous exposition and arcane bloodline conspiracies.
The good news: The White Queen gets off to an entertaining start. The bad news: In subsequent episodes it gets bogged down in then-this-happened, then-that-happened jumps through history.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 56 User Ratings
7.4
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 56 User Ratings
7.4
79% Positive
44 Ratings
44 Ratings
11% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
11% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
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Production Company:
- BBC Drama Productions
- BNP Paribas Fortis Film Finance
- Company Pictures
- Czar Television
- Playground Entertainment
Initial Release Date: 2013
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 3 Nominations
Primetime Emmy Awards
• 4 Nominations
People's Choice Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
