10 TV Shows That Rely Too Heavily On Nudity
10. The Tudors
When it comes to medieval matters of the flesh, its customary for Game of Thrones to eat up the headlines like Daenerys gobbling a horses heart, but plenty of other shows with period settings have given us a look at how people amused themselves before the age of the iPhone. The Tudors, loosely based on the sexcapades of the Tudor dynasty in sixteenth-century England and focussing primarily on the reign of Henry VIII, ran on cable channel Showtime for four years. Never likely to be mistaken for a documentary, The Tudors took considerable liberties with the events it included and alluded to, but its unlikely that many people were tuning in for a history lesson. Henry VIII is best known for having six wives and beheading most of them like some sort of gender-confused preying mantis, and as the portraits from the period show, he also looked absolutely nothing like Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Nevertheless, Meyers is probably the better looker of the two and this show wasnt exactly aimed at historians. Complaints about graphic content were inevitable as Henry was getting his end away inside five minutes of the pilot episode, and this was anything but an isolated incident for His Kingship and numerous other characters. Frequently accused of being gratuitous, soap opera tosh, The Tudors may have relied too heavily on nudity but it knew what it was and wasnt afraid to show it. All of it.