Welcome to second season blog for The Tudors: The show that portrays the dangers, intrigues and machinations that came with living in a time before the existence of indoor plumbing (and thus cold showers).Before diving into this week's episode, here's the shortest possible, and admittedly, most superficial recap of what happened in the season opener: Henry still couldn't get the Church to grant him a divorce from Katherine and so started proceedings to break away from the Pope by appointing himself Head of the Church of England. Thomas Boleyn convinced a cook to poison Bishop Fisher a plan which the Bishop survived, but which the cook, alas, did not. Anne convinced Henry to banish Katherine, but also found herself fending off new advances from her ex, Thomas Wyatt, while unknowingly becoming the focus of an assassination plan by the Spanish ambassador and a shadowy figure.This week, that shadowy figure left Anne some clues about her future (a future that is, if not immediate,...
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