The Tudors Dynasty podcast.

Hello and welcome back to week three of our recap and review of the new stars series

Becoming Elizabeth.

I'm your host, Christine Morgan, and basically you all have been sending me your thoughts and

hot takes all week, so I can't wait to talk about everything.

A lot of running praise is coming through for the actors who have all been honestly so impressive. Rosemary gave a shout out to

Ramola, but is still on the fence about Jane Gray's representation, which I think is fair. I think Jane gets as much

screen time as what Elizabeth would have witnessed, so maybe that's just not as much. On Twitter,

follower Brooke made a really interesting historic parallel and thinks that Edward the 6th

reminds her of her own topic of study, which includes

Alexi, the son of the last Romanov Tsar. Brooke drew some parallels between his temper, which was

mature in some ways due to traumatic life experiences, but he is still mostly protected, if not coddled by his family.

And so I can absolutely see that. And I love how you tied in your own study to this period.

And then Stephanie tweeted to me that she's really enjoying the buildup of Elizabeth's assertiveness.

Yes, we love to see it.

Clearly, in this third episode, Elizabeth is experimenting with finding her voice.

And she hits a few stumbling blocks and has some pretty big learning curves to work around.

But the character development is resonating with so many of you.

So thank you, thank you for coming to my thread and letting me know what you think.

I think I agree with all of you.

Now, this third installment of the series opens with a scene that I can only describe as, you know when you're reading a sentence

and it doesn't go where you think it's going. And then with each word, it just gets worse and worse. That's how I felt

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