Getting bored from his marriage to Queen Katherine, after the problems and the struggle they face, King Henry VIII, the king of England, does his best to annul that marriage, so he announces himself the head of England's church, the thing that brings terrible for him, according to Anne Boleyn declaration that he removes her from picture and court.
The paradox of "The Tudors" is that it takes on one of the most powerful and protested institutions in human history and provides little sense of what the English people have to gain or lose by breaking with it.
The main problem with this historical epic is that the performances of Rhys Meyers and of Natalie Dormer, who plays the king's controversial consort, Anne Boleyn, are flat, predictable and uninspired.
