I found that peculiar about the wife also but Sunday's episode explained it. It was the best episode so far, I loved John Voight's dialogue with Rosanna Arquette and the music at the end was great.
Breaking Bad the ending was ridiculous. 6 or 7 guys with assault rifles firing about 1000 rounds at 2 guys standing in the open 30 yards away and they didn't even get a scratch.
The White Queen is good. I can't stand that Lady Margaret. The actor who plays Edwards brother George also played Juan Borgia. I guess he is typecast as a scumbag.
In Boardwalk Empire what the hell is half face up to?
Between Dexter and GOT I've seen enough throats sliced open.
We don't know who got shot in Breaking Bad, it's a cliffhanger, there is always twists and turns which is what makes it exciting. The menacing direction is similar to the Sopranos, violence is around every corner even during quiet moments.
I think Lady Margret is portrayed authentically, pious, overbearing, devoted and relentless. I imagined her looking sickly from self torture, she looks like a woman who spends days praying without food and water. She was hardcore even in those times, raised the first Tudor King, married three times and founded two universities in Cambridge that still stand. She was grandmother of Henry VIII and Great Grandmother to Elizabeth I. I imagine some of the royals went a little mad living in such an unstable environment, one day you are living large as a member of the royal court the next day your head could be on a block of wood waiting for the ax to drop, your whole existence depended on who wins the next battle.
Boardwalk Empire would be nothing without the faceless guy, he is intriguing. There is lots of violence in that show as well, everything has gore now, throat slashing and face shooting is standard practice.
I can't be bothered waiting for Ray Donovan wife's explanation, I really have no interest or emotional investment in the characters, I must prefer Copper.
Back to the Borgias, Jeremy Irons is known to demand top dollar, he's got a castle somewhere to keep up. He is gifted but is in it mostly for the money, I guess they couldn't afford a proper cast with Irons salary demands. It's a shame considering he started his glorious career in television, a star making performance in Brideshead Revisted and was brilliant in his second television venture Longitude. It's a shame he's made very bad choices driven by greed in the past decade, he still shines but just not as bright anymore.
