Everyone knows Jane Grey was beheaded for claiming the throne after the death of King Edward VI. This alt-history fantasy presupposes: Maybe she wasn't?
It’s probably fair to say that every single drama about the Tudor dynasty would like you to know it’s not like all those: This one, really and truly, is not like the others. Sure, there are crowns and pretty ballgowns and cool sword fights and castles; as ever, the plot hinges on noble conspiracies and threats of beheading. But it also features a twist that sends it careening so far away from established reality, one wonders why it pretends to be about the Tudors at all.
One of our earliest glimpses of her, in the Jamie Babbit-directed pilot, is from the POV of her maid’s crotch as a totally unfazed Jane treats it for a venereal disease. Her dream is to write a compendium of medicinal herbs, which she hopes might earn her enough money to live out the rest of her days in blissful singlehood.
An Alan Cumming-lite narrator comments on every plot beat with slang-infused snark. The soundtrack is stuffed with female-led covers of iconic rock songs like “Rebel Rebel” and “Tainted Love.” The courtly intrigue frequently takes on a goofy, vulgar bent.
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