Historical TV: Brilliant… or Absolutely Bonkers?
Tudors Dynasty & Beyond
RedTop Media / Rebecca Larson
4.4 • 869 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
From lavish costumes and dramatic romances to wildly inaccurate timelines and completely unhinged plot twists, historical television gives us plenty to talk about. In this episode of Off the Record, we dive into some of our favorite historical TV series and discuss what they get right, what they get terribly wrong, and the moments that leave historians everywhere screaming at their screens. From brilliant casting and unforgettable storytelling to scenes so ridiculous they deserve an award of their own, nothing is off limits in this chat about the best — and worst — of historical television.
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Hosts: Rebecca Larson & Amy McElroy
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Off the Record on the Tudors Dynasty and Beyond podcast. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm Rebecca Larson. |
| 0:12.4 | And I'm Amy McElroy. |
| 0:13.8 | And we're back. |
| 0:15.3 | We took last week off and we decided to come back and grace you with our presence. |
| 0:25.1 | Or knowing you. There's a 50-50 chance but that should be my next poll do we annoy you or are you excited to see us I probably |
| 0:33.2 | wouldn't want to know what the polls no no I don't think I'd want to know the answers to that one. |
| 0:39.4 | Oh my gosh. I'm glad that we took a week off. I think sometimes you just need a little bit of a break. |
| 0:45.8 | And I feel like in today we're going to do something a little bit different than normal because we're kind of still in break mode. |
| 0:53.3 | You know, I think I told everybody that I'm really going through burnout right now. |
| 0:56.3 | And I'm just trying to do anything that makes it easier. |
| 1:00.6 | I don't know how else to describe. |
| 1:02.0 | Have you ever gone through burnout? |
| 1:04.8 | Yeah, it's not a good feeling. |
| 1:06.7 | I just feel like nothing was fun. |
| 1:10.0 | I couldn't, I just, I can't find the energy to do things. |
| 1:13.4 | Everything feels like work. |
| 1:15.2 | Even though like this is my passion and I love doing everything history related, it was like |
| 1:20.8 | everything was like pulling teeth. |
| 1:22.6 | It was just difficult to do and I had lost the joy and I'm just kind of pushing through it a little bit, |
| 1:30.2 | a little bit, but we'll see. |
| 1:33.3 | So anyway, last episode that we did, we did about Henry the 7th and it was kind of like |
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