So much acting! So what.

Rating: 5/10 (28 April 2019)

It has been on our list forever, a costume drama like PS likes, with actresses that I like (Natalie Portman and Scarlet Johannsen) with feminist and historical themes that PS likes.
It was, of course, about Henry VIII's quest for a son and how it hurt women and men, and the terrible pain from weird gender rules and untrammeled ambition.
Natalie and Scarlet acted their asses off and presented a reality that was horrible, hopefully a high level mark of human awfulness in history.
I interrupted it to make popcorn.
At the end, PS rated it "Didn't like" and I exclaimed that it was just her thing, like Pride and Prejudice. She said it was nothing like! I said what, they are both about how awful it was for women and how the manners and mores were horrid. With costumes! And female-centric!
Of course I didn't like it either.
She exclaimed that I really don't know her at all.
The next day, I said I recognize that P&P uses wit, and excepting the one cad, everybody is trying in their own flawed way to do their best. Unlike TOBG, which had utterly no wit and was just people at their most dreadful. (Except Mary, their mother, and the matron Queen, Katherine of Aragorn (Aragon?)).
PS seemed glad, and said "Yeah but now we know Scarlet Johannsen can act." I sneered "Her mother must be so proud." and she laughed and seemed to get exactly what I meant, the complex mix that we are proud as parents, but nobody else really cares, or many even resent it, and now in their shoes, we don't really care either, it didn't do anything for us, and a movie intended to convey only that, is just an elaborate and pointless brag.