TVE kind of continue their successful "Isabel" series with this one on her grandson Charles, known in Spain as King Charles I and in Austria/Germany as Emperor Charles V (whence the series name, Charles King & Emperor). They decided to jump ahead some 25 years after Queen Isabella's death, leaving Joan the Mad's reign aside and going straight on to Charles's arrival in Spain from Flanders, where he had grown.
I have to date, only watched episode 1 but that is because my Spanish is appalling and I have to take it slow, I would LOVE to watch this with English subtitles. The story picks up after the death of Ferdinand (Fernando) and Charles' V arrival in Castile to a less than enthusiastic crowd.
This TV series recreates faithfully the historical facts about Carlos I . Historical series about the great emperor of Spain and V of Germany, who ruled the crowns of Castile , including the Kingdom of Navarra and Aragon between 1516 and 1556 , and was also Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire from 1520 to 1558 .
It's OK, the cast is good, they don't go The Tudors way, it's obvious there going to be some nudes (as in most Spanish movies, when I watch a French one I do expect to see someone smoking) but they try to do it by the book which is great, it's wonderful if you a bookworm who loves History as I am and you can tell they are doing it right, of course, some licenses should be taken out of a making this appealing to the audiences but that's fine, one thing I didn't like is that they chose to summon a lot of time within 17 episodes, that means some characters are introduced and killed or vanished within the same episode or two to say the most. This should have been scheduled as Isabel but I guess budged was an issue here, that was a pity, the whole thing felt rushed.
So well written and well executed. And I freaking loved Blanca Suarez role in this series.
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