DJariya

By djariya at 2011-03-19

Synopsis:



Episode 4 of 9

Promo:

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Dragon Tattoo

That promo picture is terrible.

DJariya

Well, it's an actual picture and not some shitty photoshop job. What, would you rather see the entire cast standing in front of a church looking bored?

Ravenous

Ive been watching since day one and have NO idea who that chick to the right behind Irons is. I know shes that chick he banged but who the hell is she?

DJariya

Didn't she confess to him about having an affair?

Dragon Tattoo

It's just that Irons looks so haggard in it. I can't believe the network would use it.

Gunde

I'm liking this show a lot. I dig the costumes, the sets, the way they speak. A bummer it's only 9 episode.

Josh-da-man

Needs more nudity. Little flashes here and there from Lucrezia and Giulia just won't cut it.

sven

Cicero!

This show gets better with each episode.

wz42

If it's on premium TV all the hot female leads need to be topless for the series.

For me No Boobs = No sale unless it's a comedy that's funny as fuck.

Ravenous

Yea but so what? Im sure lots of peeps do that, WHO is she to confess to the Pope? Like, her importance or status

Dragon Tattoo

You sound mature.

Red Dog

That was one pissed-off looking groom. I knew that wasn't going to be a fun honeymoon for Lucrezia.

Now me -- I would love that kind of wedding reception. The Catholic weddings I've been to are certainly nothing like that.


I have to admit - I'm confused too. I thought she was his mistress, so I couldn't figure out why she would his companion at the wedding. Plus why did his wife have to be in hiding?

dino88

She was (is?) married to one of the Pope's relatives and now she's his mistress.

Ravenous

Ahhh, never caught that. I missed this damn ep and now I think theyre done reruning it for the week

dino88

It's actually on right now. Does your cable service have Showtime West? If so, it's on again in 20 minutes.

lamphorn

I'm enjoying it, but there's one thing that really bugs me. The lighting. The lighting is really bad. Not aesthetically unpleasing, because it's pretty, but it makes the show look totally fake. Half the time, during daytime scenes there is this really fake-looking golden orange glow all over everything. It makes the backgrounds look even more CGI than they should.

Also, night scenes indoors are absurdly well-lit. You see four candles in this large cavernous room yet all the people are lit perfectly as if there's a big old spotlight on them.

The wedding scene is guilty of this too. It's daytime, and you've got some windows up high by the ceiling. Cool. Looks like a realistic Renaissance ballroom... but instead of the shafts of blue-white sunlight being obviously the only possible source of light in this room, and the shadows that would come from being indoors hundreds of years before the discovery of electricity, once again everyone from every angle is flatly lit by big perfect movie lights.

I know this seems like a nitpicky kind of thing, and of course there is a place for style. But this isn't a stylistic choice, a la David Fincher who uses unrealistic lighting and color for an effect. It's just plain old boring TV lighting that doesn't fit in with the time period, and makes the whole show look totally fake. The Tudors, at least, while not Kubrick-perfect, TRIED to make the lighting scheme somewhat believable. It really pulls me out of the story.

sven

She used to be a prostitute. Not someone a noble would want at their wedding.

Red Dog

Yet a noble would want to marry the daughter of a whore? Doesn't make much sense to me.

Gunde

No, but the daughter of the Pope? Absolutely