The Tudors
The Death of Wolsey
TV Flash files “The Death of Wolsey” as a desk essential hour — The Tudors (2007–2010) on Showtime, season 1, episode 10, aired 2007-06-10, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E10: listed hour 10 of 38 in the The Tudors guide, last listed hour of season 1. It aired 2007-06-10 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Look to God First” (S01E09). Next is “Everything Is Beautiful” (S02E01).
Essential hour: “The Death of Wolsey”. The Death of Wolsey is season one's named closer: a counselor billed in the title, the soap admitting politics is a funeral calendar.
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Wolsey, now acting solely as the Archbishop of York and living in relative poverty, is repudiated by Anne Boleyn and writes to Queen Katherine instead, trying to gain her support. Thomas More uses his new powers as Chancellor and starts actively persecuting prominent Lutherans- including burning six of them at the stake, to the anger of Thomas Cromwell. King Henry finds his new Privy Counsellors less proficient than Wolsey was in running the country; he threatens to reinstate the Cardinal, spurring Norfolk and Suffolk to find a way to 'end' Wolsey. Henry has also found elements much to his liking in the teachings of Luther, and dispatches Cromwell to canvass various faculties of theology, hopefully to obtain favourable opinions regarding his intended divorce. Wolsey's secret communication with the Queen is uncovered by Cromwell, and he is arrested by Charles Brandon and charged with high treason. His fall from grace now complete, Wolsey laments his decadent lifestyle and commits suicide in a jail cell en route to London. Anne Boleyn engages Henry in a sexual encounter, but forces him to perform coitus interruptus after which a furious Henry storms off.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Death of Wolsey sit in the The Tudors guide?
S01E10 is listed hour 10 of 38 — last listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 10.
When did The Tudors S01E10 air?
The Death of Wolsey aired 2007-06-10 and is listed at 60 minutes.
How accurate is The Tudors?
Looser than some prestige cousins. Accuracy arguments are the aftertaste; the series never slowed the seduction to wait for them.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Henry VIII with movie-star abs, wives as foreign policy, and a court that dresses viciousness in velvet. The Tudors is Showtime historical soap — Jonathan Rhys Meyers smolder, Natalie Dormer's Anne Boleyn, and accuracy arguments that never once slowed the seduction.
The group chat has been in a Henry VIII discourse for four seasons and it is not going to stop because a history department typed in all caps. Michael Hirst's The Tudors (2007–2010) is Showtime historical soap: Jonathan Rhys Meyers in the crown with movie-star abs, Henry Cavill, Natalie Dormer's breakout Anne Boleyn, Sam Neill's Wolsey, Maria Doyle Kennedy, James Frain. Wives as foreign policy. Court intrigue as weekly addiction. Looser with history than some prestige cousins; accuracy arguments never once slowed…
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- Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Henry VIII
Jonathan Rhys Meyers’s Henry VIII turned The Tudors into Showtime historical soap — movie-star abs, wives as foreign policy, a court that dresses viciousness in velvet. Natalie Dormer’s Anne Boleyn, accuracy arguments that never once…
- Henry Cavill as Charles Brandon
Henry Cavill's Charles Brandon smoldered through The Tudors as court muscle — Henry VIII with movie-star abs, wives as foreign policy, Showtime historical soap dressing viciousness in velvet. Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Natalie Dormer's Anne…
- Natalie Dormer as Anne Boleyn
Natalie Dormer’s Anne Boleyn made The Tudors’ velvet viciousness a seduction — 2000s Showtime historical soap, Henry VIII with movie-star abs, wives as foreign policy, Jonathan Rhys Meyers smolder, accuracy arguments that never once…
- Sam Neill as Cardinal Wolsey
Sam Neill's Cardinal Wolsey dressed The Tudors' viciousness in velvet — Henry VIII with movie-star abs, wives as foreign policy, Showtime historical soap, Jonathan Rhys Meyers smolder, Natalie Dormer's Anne Boleyn. Accuracy arguments…
- Maria Doyle Kennedy as Catherine of Aragon
Maria Doyle Kennedy held the first marriage as Catherine of Aragon on The Tudors — Henry VIII with movie-star abs, wives as foreign policy, a court that dresses viciousness in velvet. Showtime historical soap, smolder, accuracy arguments…
- James Frain as Thomas Cromwell
James Frain’s Thomas Cromwell worked The Tudors like foreign policy in velvet — Henry’s court, wives as strategy, Showtime historical soap that never let an accuracy argument slow the seduction. Quiet menace with a ledger. TV Flash files…