Composer:
John LunnCast:
Aneurin Barnard, Rebecca Ferguson, Amanda Hale, Oscar Kennedy, Reece Pockney, Juliet Aubrey, James Frain, Max Irons, Janet McTeer, Hugh Mitchell, David Oakes (more)VOD (3)
Episodes(10)
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In Love with the King (E01)
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The Price of Power (E02)
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The Storm (E03)
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The Bad Queen (E04)
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War at First Hand (E05)
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Love and Death (E06)
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Poison and Malmsey Wine (E07)
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The King Is Dead (E08)
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The Princes in the Tower (E09)
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The Final Battle (E10)
Plots(1)
The White Queen is a riveting portrayal of one of the most dramatic and turbulent times in English history. A story of love and lust, seduction and deception, betrayal and murder, it is uniquely told through the perspective of three different, yet equally relentless women - Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort and Anne Neville. In their quest for power, they will scheme, manipulate and seduce their way onto the English throne.
The year is 1464 and war over who is the rightful King has been ravaging throughout England. It is a bitter dispute between two sides of the same family, The House of York and The House of Lancaster, and these three ruthless women are each desperately vying for the crown.
(official distributor synopsis)
Reviews (2)
I expected far better of this series than I eventually got. The creators clearly didn't have an exorbitant budget at their disposal, so all of the action takes place off screen, with more focus on romance and frequent baring of certain body parts (that’s right, breast men rejoice). For some reason, the series features a sort of witchcraft theme (I guess because Harry Potter’s so popular), which really got on my nerves. All in all, it was a mixed bag of positives and negatives for me, so my opinion of the whole series can be summed up using a neutral three stars.
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Considering that The White Queen series focuses on a rather dramatic period in England's history, it's a bit too romanticized for my taste. I also didn't quite grasp those supernatural abilities in the female lineage of Elizabeth Woodville. The filmmakers could really have done without that. Nevertheless, several episodes were quite engagingly filmed, so I'll overlook the pile of unnecessary baggage. (60%)
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