Discussion: No Time Wasted with the Executions - SPOILER ALERT for Episode 9

"I'm really afraid they won't show the trial. Since everyone else was found guilty and executed, they really won't have a reason to try her on the series. They leave out some of the most important information. It was terribly bloody and heartless. My heart just broke for Anne seeing all of that. I am going to sob so hard next week.

I'm glad they couldn't get rid of all of the HA initials; I hope they taunted him."

"Hey everyone,
I'm new here, am a big Anne fan. How can I watch episode 9?"

"Showtime on demand."

"People of the time who disliked Anne mocked the H & A initials as HA, HA.
Anne was not discussed after her execution; it was as if she never existed. It was through her glorious daughter that her being re-emerged.
Lady anne2: Don't take the series for gospel truth. There is no evidence that George Boleyn and Mark Smeaton had a homosexual affair. Lady Rochford hated and resented Anne because of her closeness with George. Their marriage was unhappy and Lady Rochford hated the fact that George loved his sister. She turned on her husband because of jealousy and imagined they had an incestuous affair.
William Brereton never tried to assassinate Anne. He was accused of adultery with her as were Norris, Smeaton and George Boleyn. Smeaton confessed under torture: the others never confessed. Brereton did not confess and was an unfortunate victim not a martyr.
The show is entertaining but not totally accurate.
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"You are right, I watched the show again last night, and they left the trial out. I wish they did not do that. I could have gone w/o seeing some of that other stuff they did to drag us to this point. When Charles came to arrest her in her room with her ladies, I guess they were showing us she was waiting on the verdict. I have another question....on the series Anne's dad was arrested too did this happen in real life?"

"Besides it being inaccurate that the father was arrested, it is also inaccurate that Charles Brandon arrested Anne. I'm pretty sure it was actually her creepy uncle, the Duke of Norfolk, who arrested her. He was very rude and disrespectful about it, too. His daughter had just married Henry Fitzroy, and I think he had fantasies about his daughter becoming the Queen of England. Anyway, Brandon may have been part of the group that arrested Anne, but he wasn't the leader of the group."

"Henry Percy definitely wasn't in season 1. As I was saying earlier, this has always bothered me, because it makes Anne look much more manipulative than she really was. In the first season, they show Anne and her male relatives plotting to seduce Henry VIII, when in reality it was the King who decided to seduce Anne and break up her engagement to Henry Percy. The series does show Anne actually falling in love with Henry VIII, but that's only after she has successfully "bewitched" him."

"Hey everyone,
I'm new here, am a big Anne fan. How can I watch episode 9?"