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My Lady Jane Has What Every Other Tudor Drama Is Missing
Yeah, yeah, it’s a metaphor, but more important, it’s fun.
Her largest cultural imprint is as the subject of one very beautiful and tragic painting, but slotting her into a familiar arc of Tudor history isn’t that hard to get an audience onboard for. The instinct here may be a record-scratch I bet you’re wondering how I got here reaction, but it’s important to push past that and let the beauty of a show that’s essentially Tudor Animorphs wash over you. Ethians are born with their powers and there’s no way to control who will and will not inherit shape-shifting, so it’s pretty easy to slide the whole thing into “This is a metaphor for queerness,” “Let’s celebrate our differences,” or whatever version speaks to you most.
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