The White Queen: Season 1 | Rotten Tomatoes (2025)

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Dan S Awesome series! As a historian I do not always agree with everything but you can look it up and research the history and come up with your own conclusions. I loved this series but sadly I did not like the White Princess. After too. First series was amazing! Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/06/23 Full Review Steve C It looks lush, but the attempt to rewrite history from a female perspective plays havoc with reality. Every scene begins with the delivery of a message and an information-dump to remind us who people are; is interpolated with witchcraft, religious hysteria, softcore porn and gory childbirth; and ends with someone called back on the point of departure to be insulted. The language switches between mock-Elizabethan-speak and 21st century slang. Characters are oblivious to motivation they voiced in an earlier scene and impossible pairings are engineered merely to create dialogue. A too-broad canvas means a rickety chronology of actual events is maintained by stuffing any gaps with invention. The budget must have evaporated towards the end with too many scenes filmed in an alley behind Westminster. Stops-out tearjerk action often replaces subtlety and underplaying as if self-control was unknown in the 15th century. Less than memorable and didn't make me want to read the books. Rated 2.5/5 Stars • Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Audience Member The actors (particularly Max Irons and Rebecca Ferguson) make the series worth watching. Their chemistry alone makes it a 5 star watch. The script, however, is full of endless, near sociopathic, jockeying for power and a heavy dose of witchcraft, which both become tedious after the second episode. Watch it for the romance (eps 1-5) and a cursory glance at medieval England under the reign of Edward IV, not the lackluster scripts that stretch "historical fiction" to down right whole cloth invention. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/09/23 Full Review Audience Member Série incrível!!! As atuações são esplêndidas. rebecca ferguson e max irons com uma química maravilhosa. Nota 10! Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/09/23 Full Review Audience Member Excellent experience 👏. Had to pause this many times out of anxiety for the characters. Strong acting from Rebecca Ferguson ❤️. Loved her in the Dune remake too! Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/09/23 Full Review jonny c Loved this, Margaret Beaufort and Jacquetta Woodville were brilliant. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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